ROCKY HILL, CT (WFSB) – While college students prepare to head back to their dorms, other teenagers have already joined the workforce.
They were products of Connecticut technical high schools.
Two of them are already making money, in addition to making the state’s roads safer.
They operate high-powered machinery with precision, and they’re barely old enough to drive.
“I walk in, and I just get straight to work,” said Juan Rivera, a tech school student. “I go on my machines, I run multiple machines at once.”
Rivera said he was a junior at Kaynor Technical High School in Waterbury, and a precision machine intern at the Connecticut Department of Transportation garage in Rocky Hill.
“I love it here. The people are great, the staff are great, there’s new machines, there’s old machines, and I get to learn every day,” Rivera said.
Rivera, who begins his senior year in the fall, studies precision machining at Kaynor Tech. He said …