Originally Posted By: kschachn
As usual you have no idea what you are talking about.
Originally Posted By: Merkava_4
The high cost of parts yet the typical aviation mechanic gets paid slightly above minimum wage.
My best friend is an av body tech. She's looking forward to making $20, in Canada, once her SEVEN year apprenticeship is done.
And oh, she had to move across the country when Air Canada shut down her FIRST hangar.
My brother took roughly the same aviation course.
After two years looking for a job (kid's got a solid head on, and lots of good judgement in fixing stuff), he quit, and went back to school as a millwright. He realized that the only reason my female friend was likely hired was to meet federal "gender" quotas, because he took all the same courses, did substantially better than her in marks, etc.
He's now making $21, as a STARTING apprentice, jimmy-rigging stuff per the boss's orders, with zero personal liability.