Posted on 04/05/2025 6:44:06 PM PDT by CFW
And no “Free Palestine” idiots that go to these schools.
From 2011:
John Ratzenberger:
The jobs tide threatens an American industrial tsunami (John Ratzenberger)
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/2671304/posts
That’s awesome that they start it there in the 9th grade. I always thought that if I ran things, I would stop with most of the crap schooling in their freshman year and start training each student for a trade. Even if they go to college they would have something to fall back on/use during college. Here they start optional vocational schooling in the 11th grade, but there are limited slots. If they start in the ninth grade they could have two vocations under their belt by the time they graduate.
My brother was/is a self taught mechanic. He was so good and fast he made over $100k in the 90s.
Great niece’s boyfriend just got accepted into a 7 year apprenticeship to become a licensed electrician. I’ve encouraged him to take accounting and management in night school with the goal of starting his own business. I am happy to see the younger generation turning to the trades for a living as we need them.
“My grandson did the trade school thing and CAT liked him so much he’s done follow-up schools and has his career in order quicker and better paying than college. As long as big trucks haul freight mechanics will feed and raise their families. Mechanics are the man”
Congratulations. I bet he is a lot happier than his college-attending counterparts. College seems to make young people miserable.
“higher education” used to mean something. However, being taken over by “gender studies”, etc. and incompetent, radical faculty pretty much destroyed the value of getting this “higher education” at most universities, with some exceptions.
past time for the bubble to burst.
My son in law got his master electrical lic. Started his own business.
He is book out for months.
That’s good.
Good mechanics, plumber or electrician contributes a lot more to the society than some gender studies professor.
So he deserves better renumeration!
My nephew's son was definitely not a candidate for college. Fortunately for him, in his last two years of high school, they offered an after school welding program.
Following graduation, he enrolled in the Hobart Institute of Welding Technology in Ohio. I think it was a 9 month program that also offered housing with friends of the school.
Following graduation in 2021 or 22, the job offers came pouring in. He accepted a job offer from a company close to home. Since he's living with his parents for now, he has already paid off the $35k tuition fee.
I own a Dodge pickup. Bought it new at the local dealership in 2017. All service by them. Scheduled an oil change a few months back, and was told it’d be almost a month out. ‘Wow! You guys are busy!’ ‘Not so much that; we don’t have enough technicians. The ones we find show up for a couple days, then disappear. Nobody applies for our openings. We’re looking for a certified tech right now, and offering a $5K signing bonus, with another $25K at one year. No takers.’ Unbelievable to me, a tail-end boomer who’s worked since he was nine. WTH?
As a retired stationary engineer, I welcome new blood to the trades. Before I was forced out by the clot-shot, I did my best to share my accumulated experience with the very few new hires, to the point of giving them my technical manuals collections.
I have nothing but best wishes for Chris, Amir, David, and Andrew (the four noobs at the plant when I started mental preparation for leaving).
I still miss my job.
So many people, including a number of FReepers, are really death on kids living at home once they’re past 21, which is ridiculous.
I lived at home until I got married. I had a good paying full time job, paid room and board, 25% of my take home pay, bought my own car, traveled, did my own laundry, helped with the chores.
It was a good deal all the way around. I knew I couldn’t live anywhere else near as cheap. There was the comfort of having the chores split and the security of knowing I wouldn’t be coming home to an empty house if I was out late.
And likewise, my parents appreciated knowing someone was home watching the house when they were on vacation. Matter of fact, when they went on a vacation for 10 days one time, my brother and I finished tiling the back hall for them. My dad did the kitchen floor and there wasn’t much left. We knew if he did it, he’s run out. So we did it for a surprise for them and had about 2 partial pieces of tile left over. Just squeaked it in.
A lot depends on the parents and the kids. We had a pretty stable home and we were raised to be responsible. For us it worked even though my dad and I didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things.
If it can work out for this young man, then he can save a lot for a down payment for his own place and it’s a win/win for all involved.
This is going to be be one of the best generations we’ve had in a long time.
I can only base that on my personal experience but they are conservative, hardworking and less “dreamy” and entitled as their predecessors.
My husband employs nearly 80 Gen-Zers. He has been impressed with them.
He's a super good kid. Graduated in spring of 2020, but due to covid, training at Hobart was cancelled. So he worked part time jobs wherever he could find them. Finally entered the program in the early winter of 2022 and graduated later that year. Following grad., he had his pick of job offers.
While he is still living at home, he is indeed paying rent but he's eating them out of house and home...LOL!
Once he came home from school, their food bills increased by $70 per week (which he is paying for in his rent).
The kid is into Strong Man competition and when I last saw him and talked to his mom over Christmas, Shale, who is only about 5'10 or 11", weighed 310 lbs. of solid muscle. In order to keep his caloric and protein content up for competitions, he eats a dozen eggs for breakfast every morning.
He's just a really good kid who suffers from ADHD which limited his scholastic proficiency but appears to have enhanced his ability and willingness to work with his hands and learn a trade.
Anyone labeled with ADD or ADHD is better off at a job that includes manual labor. It helps burn the excess energy out of them.
It’s good to hear he has a constructive outlet for his energy.
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