Gen-Z is shunning college to take up traditional trades like welding and plumbing they say is far more satisfying and which doesn't incur huge student debt

The Daily Mail ^ | 02 Apr 2024 | Rachel Bowman

[MinorityRepublican]

Increasing numbers of Generation Z are opting out of college and turning to vocational schools with hopes of higher wages and avoiding student debt, data shows.

Young people who came of age during the pandemic said they have been deterred from four-year universities by high tuition and the prospect of student debt.

Instead, they are attending trade schools and are being enticed by well-paying job opportunities and satisfying work.

The National Student Clearing House recorded a 16 percent increase in enrollment at two-year schools with a 'high vocational program focus' and a 2.6 percent rise in community college enrollment in 2023, reported Bloomberg.

'It's a really smart route for kids who want to find something and aren't gung ho on going to college,' wielding program graduate Tanner Burgess, 20, told The Wall Street Journal.

'It feels good at the end of the day, I'm physically doing something and there's a sense of completion.'

There was a 23 percent increase in students studying construction trades in 2023 compared to the year before, and a seven percent increase in HVAC and vehicle maintenance and repair programs.

[lgjhn23]

I’ve been posting/commenting on this very thing for a good while now.
Sure...it’s not for everybody, but for many it provides satisfying work with good pay. The goal is to get good at it and eventually start one’s own business.
IMHO, unless it it in STEM, college isn’t worth the $$$ and all the leftist BS.
Just about any so-called college degree with the word “studies” in it is pretty much worthless....even toilet paper has better usage....LOL
IE: general studies, bug studies, racial studies, dog poop studies, earthworm studies. etc....the list is long.
Everything liberalism/leftists touch, they destroy....EVERYTHING.

[metmom]

GOod.

People who work for a living and haven’t paid for 4 years of liberal brainwashing are more likely to vote conservative/republican.