Dallas County Community College has a career education program (eg like a trade school) in a field called “mechatronics.” When the presenter explained, it turn

Dallas County Community College has a career education program (eg like a trade school) in a field called “mechatronics.” When the presenter explained, it turns out to be programming and managing the systems that do warehouse / product movement in facilities owned by scrappy little companies like Wal-Mart and Amazon…you know, because humans need bathroom breaks and pesky things like safety considerations. Apparently graduates walk into the field regularly getting $70-80,000 a year jobs, which to me sounds really low. Then again, the program is like 18 weeks and a surrogate for higher education in a field where demand exists. So in a way the grandpa who wrote this article is right, but little does he know it’s eliminating low skill jobs that his meth addled nephew might be actually qualified to do!