This way of "thinking" is what has happened to manufacturing industry in the states.
It works totally fine in factories staffed with thousands of "poorly educated" workers in China, but not in USA. Why?
China tends to have a much hire ratio of supervisors on the actual assembly room floor as opposed to in the office. In the west, many would consider it micromanaging.
Not sure if would have made a difference in your case, but just wanted to mention it.
The end result is that you have great jobs, but no good jobs. Because you've eliminated room for them in the economy.
From what I see, any deterministic back-office job that can be documented is gone by 2024 in leading enterprise companies (various tech). With first-order analysis jobs following in another 5 years (basic feedback ml).
In critical professions, there's a labor-vs-capital struggle. There's a critical shortage of workers (e.g. a nurse can get a job anywhere, tomorrow), but they're seen as cost-centers by the for-profit companies that are managing most of the employers (i.e. hospitals). So you get sluggish wage growth and chronical overwork / shortages as the management companies optimize for financials by delivering just enough service.
This was exactly what I remember, and literally the guy will take a tool that is not a hammer, a screw-wrench, and hit the shit out of the machine like it was a hammer, and then loose some screw, and then bang-bang again, and then tighten some other screw...
Even the young, like 26 y.o. guy , from faraway Sichuan Province thats works doing this will receive a respectul title...
... and will be called a "Gong" (engineer) For example, if the guy's name is Zhao, he will be called with respect even by the bilionaire owner of the factory with the name and title: "Zhao Gong".
Some old Eletric/industrial design like 66 years old are making good bucks still kicking, no one is at Key West drinking margheritas...
I find surprising that this was hard to understand.
Logic and common sense on text comprehension are at it's historic lows, it seems.
The wiring of PLC control panels with servo motors, vacum-pumps (AIR-TACs) and All the moving parts of big machinery is the Slowest job at a chinese machinery assembling factory.
It looks complicated at first, then you see it everyday a lot and it starting to look easy.
Then you try do do it by yourself in a PLC that you have programmed yourself in the simplest and smallest model of the machine and you see that is actually very hard job to do.
Its actually like programming, because if you wire the wrong little cable among hundreds of little cables then you have to "debug" the wiring to see where was the damn little cable miswired...
In this place she was a 16 old girl, who had a son at 14 or so, from GuangXi province, very beautiful mountains but also has poor areas , but she was so nice and so patient and so good-hearted, it was unbelievable.
And she would wire cables all day, but not fast, slowly...slowly...because is hard.
And she learnt everyday from the 60 or 70 years old Shifu (Master, like in the kungfu movies)
I never met a better human being in my life, 100% sure, like this little girl from guangxi.
probably made around 350 USD a month. Poor child. I still have her wechat contact, I will rescue her someday...