All the young men profiled are the kind of people we are going to need in the coming years ... smart, ambitious, willing to learn and enjoy working with their hands as well as their intellect.
It starts with offering 1000 of the nations’ High School valedictorians $200k to NOT go to college. That will get the wheels rollin’.
There are lots of unemployed middle aged guys or even those in their fifties who wouldn’t mind learning skills. The trades shouldn’t just be looking at younger set for those interested in becoming skilled trades persons.
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This must be the first article I’ve ever seen posted from Fine Homebuilding mag. It’s a great magazine and Taunton Press (so far) seems to be weathering the storms that are killing so many great mags.