Yep, this is why I don’t mind slow rolling projects. Wait for a recession and labor costs will be lower.
Given the Bay Area cities have experienced major fires the past two years - there goes most of the labor resources to rebuild “entire cities”…
DOT is hiring!
We’re hiring! Apply for a rewarding career with the City of San José Department of Transportation. Our department plans, develops, operates, and maintains transportation facilities, services, and related systems like sewers and street landscaping that contribute to the livability and economic health of the city.
Important Note: Employees in the following positions may be required to work alternate work shifts, including grave and swing, weekends, holidays, overtime, and on-call.
Maintenance Assistant (Full-time, benefited)
The Department of Transportation is currently hiring full-time, benefited Maintenance Assistants.
Pay: $20.30 – 25.90/hr; $42,224.00 - $53,872.00 annually
Duties: Maintenance Assistants repair and maintain pavement, sewers, landscaping, traffic signs, traffic signals, and other street infrastructure. Duties include operating a wide range of hand, mechanical, and power tools, as well as a variety of light and heavy vehicles, trucks, and equipment relevant to work performed. All maintenance personnel receive training in safe work practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Completion of high school or equivalent (or G.E.D. or California Proficiency Certificate)
• Ability to obtain a Class A license
• Verification of eligibility to work in this country
To apply for Maintenance Assistance, create a profile and submit a complete application online at https://bit.ly/2CK9sCi.
Maintenance Worker II (Full-time, benefited)
The Department of Transportation is currently hiring full-time, benefited Maintenance Worker IIs.
Pay: $25.66 - $31.21/hr; $53,372.80 - $64,916.80 annually
Duties: Maintenance Worker IIs provide lead direction to and assure safety of small crews, develop traffic control plans, and engage in the maintenance and repair of pavement, sewers, landscaping, traffic signs, traffic signals, and other street infrastructure. As field leaders, Maintenance Worker IIs are major contributors to the Department of Transportation’s efforts to provide exceptional service to its customers.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Completion of high school or equivalent (or G.E.D. or California Proficiency Certificate)
• Three (3) years of experience in the maintenance and repair of streets, sewers, parks or public facilities, or related field.
• Ability to obtain a Class A license
• Verification of eligibility to work in this country
To apply for Maintenance Assistance, create a profile and submit a complete application online at https://bit.ly/2F4DoLD
Parking and Traffic Control Officer (Full-time & part-time, benefited)
Pay: $21.96 - $26.67/hr; $45,676.80 – $55,473.60 annually
The Department of Transportation is hiring Parking and Traffic Control Officers (PTCOs).
Duties: PTCOs patrol assigned areas within the city limits independently (by car or on foot) and respond to complaints of illegally parked motor vehicles. They enforce parking laws and regulations in public roadways, garages, and surface parking lots. In addition, PTCOs support school safety and public outreach programs by providing education and information about parking laws and regulations. They coordinate tows of illegally parked vehicles, including in support for construction or street maintenance projects. PTCOs are also tasked with providing vehicular and pedestrian traffic control during construction projects and special events within the City. All PTCOs receive thorough training in applicable laws, regulations, procedures, and safe practices.
Minimum Qualifications:
• Completion of high school or equivalent (or G.E.D. or California Proficiency Certificate)
• One (1) year of experience in employment requiring independent decision-making and considerable contact with the public
• For Full-time positions: One (1) year of experience in parking compliance
• California Class C License (or ability to obtain one by time of hire)
• Verification of eligibility to work in this country
To apply for Maintenance Assistance, create a profile and submit a complete application online at https://bit.ly/2QhQtm3
Come on, Johnny don’t want to be janitor!!! He wants to be a contractor who can name his price on jobs and pick and choose which jobs to work on!!!
Well then Johnny is a moron. Ask that BART janitor pulling in 250k a year doing practically nothing.
Aaahh, one BART janitor hitting the lottery vs how many lowly paid janitors out there??? Do you know ONE good contractor who is not backlogged with work? A good contractor calls the shots. Even Mr. Bart janitor doesn’t do that anymore…
That or drive a semi truck…
For most schools, it seems college isn’t worth the money. I’d be interested to see the by major data.
There’s a link to the actual study. They count all student enrolled. That means dropouts and graduates are counted in the attended bucket. That seems a bit misleading. They should count graduates vs never attended. I wouldn’t expect a dropout to want more than someone who never attended
A secure financial future is what most Americans hope to get with their college degree.
True for all nationalities and ethnic groups.
Yet half of the country’s institutions in 2018 left the majority of their former students earning less than $28,000 a year.
Most of the liberal arts degree are worthless. Better off not taking them. However if you can afford to spend $ and time to learn them, benefits include getting a good spouse 
You need a college degree to do blue collar work nowadays.
Education bubble.
I worked in manufacturing for 30 years and the nice thing about Silicon Valley was “can do” counted for more than a degree. A 30-something was sent out tp my plant from New Jersey back in the 90’s to shut us down and move us back east. No degree. They were paying her about 35k a year. They lost her to the valley when she took a look around. No one much cared about her lack of a degree and general lack of sophistication. Only her skills which were top notch. She blew away a lot of the chemical engineers.
You’re one of those with a college degree?
Yeah but there were folks without one who were smarter and more capable than I was. And they got the chance to get at least as far as senior manager in SV. Director or higher was hard without a degree. Still, if they were indispensible they got stock options on par with folks above them on the corporate ladder. This was medical device. Biomaterials. A lot of artistry mixed in with a lot of chemistry. Knowing what things DID and how they worked together was more important than knowing exactly what they WERE.
Been going on for years and it’s only getting worse.
“These perceptions fuel the worry that, if students are urged as early as the seventh grade to consider the trades, then low-income, first-generation and ethnic and racial minority high school students will be channeled into blue-collar jobs while wealthier and white classmates are pushed by their parents to get bachelor’s degrees.”
So? I guess we’ll have a bunch of white kids pulling espressos and paying off student loan debt on their sociology degrees while waiting for an inheritance at 50 and a bunch of low-income, first-generation and ethnic and racial minority kids enjoying happy middle class lives. The problem is?
I might add - an unspoken reason for all this is that liberal teachers and guidance counselors know kids who go into the trades tend to end up more conservative while those who go to college get brainwashed into being bitter liberals. Which is what the unionized teachers and counselors really want.