>There have been a number of articles reporting that millennials are passing up high-paying jobs in trucking. As someone who comes from a long line of blue collar men — including truckers — I find it a bit odd that millennials aren’t eating up the chance for six-figure income.
It’s a low-status job to them. Millennials are all about liberal social status, not pay.
And they believe that self diving trucks are imminent, because the press tells them so.
You can’t enjoy legalized weed as a truck driver either.
Here in the oilfields of the Permian Basin a kid can come straight out of high school and go to work in the oilfields making 60 to 75 thousand a year. It’s hard work and long hours but it’s there. The trades have been long ignored and it’s starting to show, plumbers, welders, electricians and carpenters are in demand but they’re just not out there and a good one can draw a premium wage. Many take it even farther and start their own business with incomes far surpassing most if not all degree’s. Come with headaches but the payoff is worth it.