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Career Services
Every working day we manufacture
many heavy equipment machines all over the United States. The
manufacturers of these machines intend to sell them, and the people
who buy them intend to make a profit from their use. These machines
are very expensive. The price of a large bulldozer with attachments
can easily exceed a half million dollars.
In the United States we manufacture tires
that cost $50,000 that are used on heavy equipment machines.
The construction, forestry, strip mining, conservation, land
clearing, reclamation, landscaping, utilities and other industries
are not going to employ untrained and unskilled people to
operate these costly machines. Heavy equipment machines do
a lot of work and earn a profit for their owners if qualified
operators operate them. The need for good operators never
ends. These heavy equipment machines are becoming more complex
every year. The person that successfully completes a quality
heavy equipment operator program should be in great demand
for many years.
Billions are being spent to build and repair roads,
bridges, airfields, office buildings, shopping centers, and subdivisions;
and for soil conservation, land leveling, reclamation and flood
control projects to improve our ENVIRONMENT. The government and
private industries are spending billions of dollars to build new
dams, pipelines, hydroelectric plants and transmission facilities.
Our recent problems due to the lack of energy will serve as a stark
reminder of our deficiencies in energy. We are told it will take
years of great effort to solve this problem. We are informed also
that several states will be suffering from WATER SHORTAGES to add
to our ENERGY and ENVIRONMENTAL problems. It will take many machines
and many operators to help solve these problems.
The people who choose to become heavy equipment
operators and small earth moving contractors should feel very gratified.
They are not only in a field that is well paid with an excellent
future, but they will also be able to help our country solve our
energy, environmental and water problems.
Construction is the largest service industry in
the United States. The opportunities in this field are excellent
for the properly trained and the ambitious. There is no more important
occupation in the United States than the heavy equipment operator.
Without these people, we would have very limited roads, dams, bridges,
housing, flood control, and very little strip mining, land clearing,
conservation, landscaping, reclamation, land filling, logging and
pipelines. Heavy equipment operators and small earth moving contractors
also work with utility companies, such as telephone, electric, gas,
and water. The need for the heavy equipment operator and small earth-moving
contractor is almost endless.
THE
OPPORTUNITY HAS NEVER BEEN GREATER!
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