Taxpayer-funded jobs for new employees who need to be taught welding and soldering.
Newport News ship building has what they claim to be the world’s largest vocational training center. They partner with a couple of local community colleges to flesh out the Degree of Education that they provide. It’s really quite astounding.
Where I live a (number of miles north of there), just about everybody I know has at one time or another in their life worked down at the yards. Hard work, but it is steady work and although the hours are long and the commute is often by a subscriber bus service, the benefits could balance out if the individual is looking for that type of a lifestyle.