Sorry, your post made it sound like every tradesman is useless.
My career has been white collar, sales/marketing type stuff. I’m sort of a hybrid right now and work with a lot of builders.
Many of them are very proud of their work and it’s more mentally complex than you might think. In many ways I wish I would have gone into the trades rather than the office setting.
As you may have read, one of my kids is in a STEM career as an astronautical engineer. He’s white and had no trouble getting a job. Two interviews with different divisions of the same company, one offer within a week.
Guess it depends on which level of STEM stuff you go into. I do know a bunch of computer guys who are constantly struggling.
I don’t know any builders, plumbers, contractors, electricians, roofers, masons and the like who are struggling.
I don’t know any builders, plumbers, contractors, electricians, roofers, masons and the like who are struggling
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Until legal H2B Mexicans and illegals dominate those positions as well.
How many Americans are there left in these fields once Mexicans start dominating it?
For the remainder it maybe true, but not everyone can do manual labor. I sure can’t.
Do we give all white-collar work to foreigners - as we have been doing - Indians are like locust. They move into one white-collar field after another and eventually totally dominate the field.
Do we relegate our next genea