ASE and the U.S. Secret Service will exhibit in a co-branded booth at AAPEX 2025

The ASE is bringing a special guest organization – the U.S. Secret Service – to their exhibit at the Automotive Aftermarket Products Expo (AAPEX), November 4-6, 2025. The purpose of the exhibition is to drive awareness of the wide range of career opportunities available to auto technicians, including with the Secret Service.

https://www.aapexshow.com/news/ase-secret-service-aapex-25

bad timing with the govt refusing to pass a budget and pay it's employees... 

also, I applied for that job in July, and was informed that a GS job that I was applying for was not going to happen without some specific amount of time in the next lower paygrade. Well, lemme inform you that I wasn't applying for starvation wage level GS level, and can not make ends meet on GS 4, or 5 income. Not in San Diego. 

car insurance (200 a month), plus gas to commute to work (200-300), and most people have a car payment (300-400 a month) and rent or mortgage (2000 a month) 

and that doesn't include cell phone monthly bill (100 a month) and food to eat (500 a month based on 16 dollars a day) 

So, yeah, the ASE and the Secret Service are hoping to get young people to be car mechanics, just like the trucking industry, and every other faction of employers is hoping to get young people to accept entry level wages, and do the same work as seasoned employees with years of experience.... because they won't pay a wage equal to the amount of income it takes to live in So Cal, and I imagine it's not enough to live near Washington DC either.