There is something in my town that I find completely disturbing, and I am finding out that it occurs in most towns across our country.
If what we are seeing reflects the future, then we definitely have a right to be concerned.
Have you noticed that among HVAC companies in our country, there is a huge lack of young HVAC technicians who are just starting out in the field? In fact, in my city, all of the HVAC technicians who work on the furnaces and air conditioners that we all own are all over the age of 40. And when we talk to the owners of these HVAC companies, they complain that they have trouble recruiting HVAC technicians today. Most of the people that they are able to hire as HVAC technicians are middle-aged men that can’t find a job anywhere else. When I ask these HVAC technicians to explain the problem, they tell me that it all starts with the education that these children as receiving. From a young age, kids are told to get good grades so that they can go to college so that they don’t have to work a trade job. Kids are taught that working a job in the HVAC industry is hard work and definitely not something an intelligent and civilized person should be doing. However, they don’t realize that HVAC technicians work hard, have to figure out problems and get paid well. Furthermore, if we don’t find more HVAC technicians to start training, we aren’t going to have any HVAC technicians in the future.