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Skilled Labor Series: Manufacturing Careers in Climate Tech
Inevitable
The Intersection of Manufacturing, Jobs and Manufacturing and Climate
"This is what I love to do. I'm really excited to see what I look forward to spending time on," he says. "I think that's a good reminder for folks wherever they are in their career path, be it in high school or in their 50s or 60s." He also talks about the overlaps between the manufacturing trades and jobs that people are getting trained for.
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Speaker 2
I recently interviewed a journalist at least 10, maybe 15 years writing for various publications and who has recently transitioned to becoming a nutrition for the same reasons. This is what I love to do. I'm really excited to see what I look forward to spending time on. So I think that's a good reminder for folks wherever they are in their career path, be it in high school or in their 50s or 60s. Okay, I want to change lanes and talk about the intersection of manufacturing, jobs and manufacturing and climate. So what do you see are the overlaps between the manufacturing trades and the jobs that people are getting trained for and this topic of climate change and climate tech, because I'm sure it's bubbling up more now than before.
Speaker 1
Right. Well, it's the barriers, you know, it's been a center of innovation for decades. And what I'm finding is that I've seen it around here as well, with climate companies, climate-focused companies, is the small companies are cropping up and showing up. Focusing on the climate issues is pretty interesting. So in part of that is when you're developing things for climate change, obviously there's software and process methods to help reduce carbon output and things like that. But most of it is technology is new hardware technology ways of generating electricity or reducing it or different approaches to mining materials that are used in those technologies. You know, how can we create that hardware in such a way to help impact climate change? And that requires technicians. It's interesting. I was a few years ago, I was up in Seattle and I was at the Aviation Museum up there and I was walking through and they had pictures of Robert Goddard who developed the first liquid fuel rocket back in the 20s and, you know, he's a PhD and they had these pictures of him. And it was Robert Goddard with machinists and then Robert Goddard with, you know, his shop machinists as he was standing around their liquid fuel rocket and it just indicated to me how important those skilled trays are to making this equipment. And I as an engineer learned that very early on is that the skill sense that they bring to it can kind of make a very important difference about whether or not you can get that product made, that design made properly and out to market on time. So if you don't have good skilled trades people behind you, you may not, you know, meet the market needs. And so we're seeing a lot of these companies come to us and say, Hey, we need skilled trades folks, electronic technicians, machinists or otherwise to help us develop our products. And so that's kind of the overlap. So you're developing this product, you need the skilled trades people.
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