So true. I’m 53, and I only know a few American born, English speaking guys younger than me in the trades. I’ve got another decade or so til retirement. For now I’m content to take jobs I can do by myself. I don’t have to deal with workmans comp, payroll taxes, and guys who are drunks, lazy, or don’t have transportation.
It's utterly amazing to me, how fast American born men just let that entire industry be taken from them. When I was a young apprentice, the only hispanic guys on the job were American born, just like the rest of us. Thirty years later, we're becoming as rare as hen's teeth.