I was speaking to someone I did my apprenticeship with last night, and as much as I hate to say it... kids these days aren't taught like we were. We were taught proper hand skills and how to use competently each tool in our tool box. We even manufactured our own tools, a solder sucker and a tap wrench. Both of still which work today and they were made almost thirty years ago. My friend is still in aircraft maintenance and he is also quite confident that I could walk back in and surpass current apprentices and trainees. This is not a brag, but despair in where the industry is now at. I'm out of maintenance at the moment but I came through in the era of the LAME Fed Sec.