[throwaway0a5e]

"other actual technical jobs, like electrician," have barriers to entry.

Ms Wait would have to break her back schlepping spools around a jobsite for a few years before she could get onto the actual electrician career track.

Before they took away the light at the end of the tunnel schlepping batteries around for Google was just as good.

[pessimizer]

> Ms Wait would have to break her back schlepping spools around a jobsite for a few years before she could get onto the actual electrician career track.

Ms Wait would be paid >=$15 to do this.

[throwaway0a5e]

Maybe she'd get $16, but anywhere where data-center techs are making 15 general construction laborers aren't gonna be making much more and they don't get to work indoors.

[simfree]

In Seattle today, union electrical apprentices often earn under $18hr, while Safeway is paying new hires $20hr in Seattle and Bellevue.

General construction does not pay that much unless your licensed, bonded and running your own business or have a decade or more in with the union.