There are only two high schools in the area that have technical trade-centered training facilities. The other schools will farm their kids out to those facilities. They attend class in the morning and then are bused to the “career center” in the afternoon.
On a somewhat brighter note, a good number of the young people I have had interaction with have expressed an intent to take up welding. Someone must have told them there is good money in welding.
“a good number of the young people I have had interaction with have expressed an intent to take up welding. Someone must have told them there is good money in welding.”
Talking to the college students at the gym, they are taking out huge loans to be pharmacists. The Publix pharmacist told me they are going to huge centralized automated centers. Robots fill the orders and they are shipped USPS unless they are schedule drugs, which you must pick up from Publix. If you have a question you will be connected to a pharmacist in Bangalore who has your records and will answer your question. The school is lying to the students about their job potential. It’s like dentistry was a few years ago when they were opening dental clinics like barber salons in malls. Way too many dentists.
But, the kids do now want to sweat. They don’t want to get dirty, and, they want to spend a few years partying on borrowed money they will probably never pay back.
Having spent a career as an engineer in an air conditioned building it’s ironic that in my declining years I am sweating my posterior off fixing up rental houses because I got Obama’d out of my retirement and medical insurance.
Really, I wish I had done this in my youth. I’d have started a contracting company and sold it during the housing boom.