I read an interesting article in the Trib today
It was about a program in the Oakland CA area that targeted economically disadvantaged youth and high school drop outs.
It's an apprentice program in the refuse collection field.....or how to be a garbage man.
The youths are recruited and trained for two years. Then they will be eligible to have a commercial driver's license and get a job as a union sanitation collector.
During training they get $20 per hour, great wages for jobs requiring you to get up at 3 a.m. and work in all kinds of weather.
Once they get a union job, they are looking at a salary of about $70,000 a year.
I am not knocking the program or the job. Yes, it may be more than some college gradates start out at, but it's a tough job. And someone has to do it.
The same article mentioned that currently there is a shortage of about 48,000 qualified collectors across the country.
Like I said, I just thought it was interesting.
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