Finally, someone has seen the light .
Not everyone has to have a 4 year college degree to become successful and the tuition won't leave you in debt up to your eyeballs. (Moore Tech tuition typically runs $6,000 per year, although federal Pell Grants can defray costs for lower-income students.)

Want to land a $100,000 job?
Kent Ritchey has an idea.
Learn to fix cars.

Now he’s trying to set up a school to teach Memphians how.

Ritchey, president of the Greater Memphis Automobile Dealers Association, said the dealers and William R. Moore College of Technology have agreed to launch classes for automotive technicians.

Turns out there’s a shortage of people able to handle the diagnostic equipment and tools necessary to maintain and repair modern cars and their computerized systems.

“You take a master technician in this town with seven years of experience and if they want to work all of them can make in excess of $100,000 and every dealer in town would give their right arm to have them,’’ said Ritchey, president of Landers Automobile Group, a Memphis company that owns area dealerships.

That’s a master technician.

A newly certified car tech can start at $35,000 and reach $65,000 in three years.

“We polled the 54 dealerships in our association. Not a one of them wouldn’t hire a technician or a person who wants to be trained as a technician,” Ritchey said. “There just aren’t enough of these technicians anywhere in the country. They’re the kind of people who are working with their brains and their hands. Our whole country is going to grind to a halt without this type of expertise.’’

http://www.commercialappeal.co...rs-memphis/99158978/

I have a buddy in the industry that calls on dealers nationwide, specifically the SM, and the number one thing he hears is "lack of qualified techs"

They said it's hard to find good techs, and they have positions to fill, a good tech, that works smart can earn a $100K a year at a big dealer.