smart, AI wont be taking those jobs
Nice choice... probably a safe and wise option.
Finally getting smart .
good idea. college is mostly a racket for big Ed.
That makes me feel good. Hopefully apprentice programs will spring up, both schools along with manufacturing and industrial companies will take the lead - and keep government away.
Hm. GenZ may be smarter than I thought.
“Increasing numbers of Generation Z...”
Sounds like they don’t know that plumbing and welding can lead to DIRTY HANDS. But they’ll find out soon enough.
Excellent news - Mike Rowe will be very happy!
It’s just common sense. Why be herded into college because some teacher says it’s the right thing to do, collect massive debt, waste a few years of life and learn something that cannot be used to gain employment?
Many of the technical trades are great paying jobs. Many employers offer on the job training to get the employee now and train him the way he wants to instead of getting a kid filled with political mush.
I made a fairly decent living in the trades and managed to accumulate enough wealth to retire with the goodies and toys we want and can eat a good meal anytime we want. Everything we possess is paid off.
If true, this is fantastic news.
I imagine there will be a further issue down the road where a great many young women go to college, don’t learn valuable skills, get their heads filled with nonsense, and come out into the world focusing on marrying a man with higher status than theirs. The women will be poor, working at coffee shops, and turning their nose up at the welders and plumbers who flirt with them. (Although those guys would probably have enough sense to steer well clear of college girls.)
This, of course, is not new at all. It’s been very apparent for quite awhile.
But as men avoid college, and as college becomes increasingly gynocentric, the gap between men and the women who find those men acceptable is going to grow a lot.
Plumbing is a lucrative trade all right, but I don’t think I’ve ever met a plumber over 40 who didn’t have a really bad back.
Most of our friends homeschooled like we did. As we were graduating our kids we could see the college scam turning. My youngest son is 25. Almost all of his friends went into the trades. One is a cop, my son and a buddy are not he truckers, another is a lineman.
Smart kids, zero debt, great incomes.
My older child is a young millennial and my younger son is gen-z. Both have gravitated towards trades. My older son choose not to go to college and do a trade instead, unlike most of his friends. He tried a lot of different things and found his niche - he loves his job and makes great money. His friends who went to college are all struggling. My younger son, college graduate, is starting to see the same - they are all new college graduates, but the only one who has started a career in his field is a biochemist. He has lost interest in his field of study and wants to work with his hands.
going into the trades and dropping the high ed fields?
exactly what the globalists want.
this will leave America to be the country that’ll produce rubber dog sh*t in factories for the first world nations of the future.
good- been noticing a lack of plumbers up and coming to replace the older plumbers in town, and mechanics (although with mechanics, it’s much much harder these days as there are so many electronics involved now- so fewer people want to be mechanics anymore)
I have a grandson just finishing welding school. I could gush, but another time.
Gen-X needs to support this break back to skills vs education. Hire, fund, and deal with those who choose skills over an indoctrination education. I do that in my small team of hiring. Hired a guy that just got out of the navy after an unproductive first 2 years in college. He has been a great pick up. No one would touch him because his first 2 years pulled his GPA low overall. I jumped on a guy that grew up in the mil before picking back up his desire to get his engineering degree. Great choice.
We have 10 years where Gen -X can make some changes. If you have that opportunity the take the chance.