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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
That's actually not true. Trade jobs are in many cases in higher demand than college educated white collar professional jobs. We have several consecutive generations that were brianwashed into thinking that college was the only route to success. In the meantime every high school started focusing only on standardized test scores to obtain funding, and eliminated their shop, auto, welding, home economics, and other practical courses. I know plenty of people in the trades that make far more money than many college educated folks, and they are desperate to find qualified help. You can outsource your IT department to India, but you can't outsource fixing the broken toilet!
Good article on the topic. I have three kids, if one of them decided they wanted to go into a skilled trade I would be all for it.
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So true, my boiler guy lives in a bigger house than me and drivers a smarter car, he has one guy and his son working for him and his wife runs the phone from home, he is always busy.
My son wants to be an engineer so I'm all the strings so he can have work experience at some cool race teams. If he said to me he wanted to start up his own company doing a trade I would support him all the way as he would never be out of a job
Not sure what it's like in the US but there are not enough skilled people to go around