“If you want a secure job, pick something that involves working with your brain or hands that is difficult to automate (e.g., plumber, electrician, hairdresser, etc).”
What’s that? You say the trades are fashionable again?
(grin)
The problem is that we have an entire generation or two now that have absolutely no mechanical ability whatsoever and aren’t interested in it in the least. I’m continually amazed by it in our young people. Boys especially.
The problem is that societally what are "men's strengths" are demonized/trivialized. Consider merely logical-thinking; as a practical application, to the Law:
New Mexico Constitution, Art I, Sec. 6. [Right to bear arms.]yet, despite the underlined [and the last sentence] county and municipal courts bar weapons from their properties. Even in the case where the person required to be there has not been so much as accused of a crime: jurors.
No law shall abridge the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and for other lawful purposes, but nothing herein shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weapons. No municipality or county shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
The authorities will evade, or rationalize ("we don't allow weapons in schools either"), if you bring contradictions like this up. Moreover, you cannot challenge the Constitutionality of these rules [or contraconstitutional statutes] without intentionally violating it (and thereby implicitly acknowledging its validity) then presenting your case from a position of weakness: the accused.
It seems boys are screwed over in anything that they are naturally good at.
IOWs... work that is not done sitting at a computer keyboard...
No kidding! I was in a conversation wih a mechanic just yesterday and a747 pilot was there also. He picked up a pair of pliers and, this is no bull, asked the mechanic what was this? Then he picked up a punch and asked what that was. I was struck dumb.