My sister works for a company that builds huge electric motors. They have had standing offers of hiring machinist trainees at $15 an hour for several years now and they can't get enough people that want to work and learn cnc machining.
Is she in your area?
Awfully hard, nearly impossible to survive on $15 an hour down there. That's why there are so many multi family homes, or 8 guys (immigrant) renting three bedroom suburban houses.
That's a starting wage for a room temp IQ to start. It might be more now.
I'm guessing sweeping the floor around the machinery, maybe putting parts on a conveyor belt?
Still, it would suck to try to live on that wage in SoCal, even with roommates or a significant other bringing in a second wage. Our vehicle insurance here is a couple of hundred dollars a year more per vehicle than where I lived in other States. And we're in BFCalifornia. Can't imagine how high it is in Metro SoCal.
