>> However, a high school kid getting bored out of his skull is
>>  going to start making mistakes.
>>
That's why you try to "grow" a "manufacturing engineer" instead of 
treating
them like a minimum wage idiot only capable of plugging in a cable and 
pushing
a button (or whatever.)  You have an opening ideal for an 'entry level' 
geek,
which is pretty rare.  I wouldn't think you'd have any problem filling 
it with
a reasonably intelligent and capable person.  (cisco got some of their 
early
manufacturing personnel via a group that fed (semi?) skilled deaf men 
and
women into industry.  The group provided ASL interpreters and other 
assistance,
and it worked quite well.) (of course, when it DOES work well, you end 
up having
to keep giving your employees big raises to keep them, but it's 
generally worth it.)

BillW

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