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New Mexico’s Legal & Financial Weekly
Vol. 10.100 No. 38
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Covid Pandemic Highlights Value of Transportation Techs
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he COVID-19 pandemic has shattered many preconceived notions about careers and technology. In particular, demand for transportation technicians is surging as the government has declared transportation technicians (mechanics) to be essential workers. However, many people, including students contemplating future options and individuals contemplating career changes, are unaware of the opportunities and the potential for success in transportation technology and repair. Often underestimated as “blue collar” or “grease monkey” jobs transportation technicians are in fact high-tech “new collar” jobs that depend on computer skills and fluency with the latest in digital engineering. Transportation technicians are in high demand and critical to maintaining and restoring America’s economy during the pandemic and beyond. These skilled workers literally keep America rolling by ensuring that the trucks delivering food, medicine, and other supplies get to their destinations as efficiently as possible, and that emergency responders’ vehicles transport them quickly and safely. In addition, many people are choosing to repair and maintain older vehicles instead of buying new ones, which adds to the demand for skilled transportation technicians.
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Institute. “Employers need skilled technicians to fill essential jobs and, as many in our nation look for new paths to prosperity, we’re seeing growing interest in our programs and in technical careers.” Transportation technology appeals to hands-on learners with an interest in and enthusiasm for the state-of-the art engineering. “A NASA space shuttle has approximately 400 thousand lines of code, but a modern car has approximately 100 million lines of code,” according to Mike Pressendo, chief marketing and strategy officer of the TechForce Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports students through their education into successful careers as professional technicians. “These are skilled, well-paying, technical jobs.”
The TechForce Foundation reaches out to both Recent surveys show an increased interest in young students and career changers with a career transportation technology work, both among guide, available at techforce.org/careerguide, and younger students and career changers whose jobs a “Because I’m a Tech” promotional campaign, in may have been lost or furloughed because of the which technicians share their stories of successful pandemic. Surveys of high school students show and secure skilled technician careers. that more than half are open to something other than a four-year degree, and 70 percent want to follow their own educational path. For additional information about secure, successful careers in transportation technology, visit techforce.org. “Despite record rates of unemployment, there continues to be strong demand for our graduates,” says Jerome Grant, CEO of Universal Technical -(NewsUSA)
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