This is John Batcher speaking with my good colleague Jim McTague, formerly of Barons, the Washington editor,

roaming Lancaster County to find out where the jobs are.

Well, the jobs are everywhere.

The Army recruiter, eager for young workers, the HVAC salesman,

a store owner, eager for young workers, and he tells a story, the HVVAC how hard it is to find the young

people to work for him he wants to grow his business and the army recruiter well

here's Jim to explain.

Yeah, I jumped in to see the Army recruiter

and his face fell when I walked in

because obviously, approaching 75, I'm not a good prospect.

But I was asking him.

I said, I assume that it's very difficult for you

to find recruits in this job market.

And the reason I asked that, I have been talking to the owner of a plumbing

H-backed company. The company is called ASAP Plumbing, which is probably the most honest name for a plumbing company I've ever seen.

But anyway, the owner of this company has great demand for his H-FAC services and he can't realize that expansion because he can't find an

employee with enough experience and he told me like we have a huge vocational two-year college here called Thaddeus Stevens and the owner of the

H-Vac company said as soon as a Thaddeus Stephen H-VAC student graduates.

They're sucked up like guppies by the larger companies,

the bigger fish.

More of this later.

Thank you.

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