The shortage of skilled journeymen and service technicians won't end until pay scales match what they're worth.
Let's create some nifty recruitment videos and brochures. Let's dialog and liaison with school counselors. Let's start
propagandizing kids when they're still in elementary school. Let's raise money for a public relations campaign to
improve the image of the trade. Let's form another committee or task force to look into the problem.
Let's do all this and everything else that's already been thought of to trick talented youngsters into doing what they
have so manifestly demonstrated throughout the last decade that they do not want to do, which is pursue careers in
the pipe trades. Let's do all this and more, and the industry will continue to spin its wheels, because none of these
recruitment gimmicks address the one thing that might actually succeed where all else has failed.