Posted on 03/11/2023 7:08:39 AM PST by Skwor
Awareness of the nation's massive labor shortage problem is increasing.
The problem is encapsulated by the latest news out of Kentucky, where one carpenter’s skills are in high demand.
Charles Breedlove’s job “takes him everywhere ... even [to] the water," where he is building a boat deck in the small town of Paducah, according to Kentucky news station WPSD Local 6.
He says that demand for his services is growing, but he’s among the few left who knows how to do the job.
As reported by Industrial Skilled Trades, “[f]ewer workers are entering the trades, especially among the younger population.”
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What is it you do?
But we just import uneducated, untrained and non English speakers to address those high skill jobs, right Joe?
I run an extortion racket feeding the addiction of America’s rich, greedy, wealthy and famous. I am like a drug dealer, but what I do is legal.
I have no idea how you see Indian workers and H1B being so dramatic in the trades. In college fields and “IT” support yes, but hands on trades not at all
As I said I teach these disciplines and I still have never met an Indian worker under an H1B supplant a Plumber, Electrician, Carpenter, Electronics Technician, HVAC Technician, etc.
In fact I see listings all the time for people in those trades with experience, the jobs are left unfilled!
“Russia produces very little.”
I know, we have to think that. But they sure CANNOT hold a candle to our Gender Studies programs!!!
“Students I have taught now make upwards of 190k a year with overtime(that is a lot of overtime mind you), the average is easily over 100k and the best part, no college debt!”
Their trade skills can also lead to even higher income. I know a carpenter who in his 20s saved his money, bought houses, fixed them up at night after work by himself, and flipped them. Once he assembled enough capital from his own sweat and labor, he started his own construction company. Today, in his 40’s he is a multimillionaire property developer. No college degree. Strong marriage and wife keeps the books for the business.
A neighbor, non-college grad, started at 18 as an apprentice welder. In his 20’s he started a welding company that today works on projects from schools to high rises as well as industrial jobs. He also has another business customizing vehicles for commercial applications. Another self made multimillionaire who has no degree but comes across as more well spoken and educated than most woke graduates of prestige universities.
A third acquaintance started in HVAC. Saved his money, went out on his own and has built a large commercial and residential HVAC business with over 50 technicians in trucks. He told me he would hire another 25 people today if he could find workers with skills. He said the evolution of the state’s 2 year college system from focusing on technical training to liberal arts was criminal.
One of our area 2 year state schools had an outstanding woodworking and cabinet making program. Every graduate was immediately employed upon graduation and most ultimately ran their own independent businesses doing finish carpentry, cabinet work or custom furniture. A new president of the college over a decade ago ended the program to shift funding to expand the liberal arts program. The rationale was the area furniture industry was in decline (moving offshore) so in the future there would be no demand for the graduates of the woodworking program. The ignorance of this “educator” is demonstrated by the fact none of the graduates of the program at the time were going to work in furniture factories, they were going into higher skilled jobs for which there is still huge demand today.
Professional educators have destroyed primary, secondary, and higher education over the past 60 years. They also destroyed technical and skilled trades training. The nation suffers greatly as a result.
“In Gynocentric society, men are worthless.”
That is a HUGE part of it...and likely the main reason why China and other countries are now cleaning our clocks.
As well, look at the job sites, DICE, Indeed, ZipRecruiter, Monster, and LinkedIn. Nearly 99% of the recruiters are Indian, too often even based in India, filtering out Indians and H1B for those American jobs. Americans are being hurt coming and going on this.
For trades, I suspect your main competitor for American jobs are illegals. And worse, if I understand correctly, when the government catches and releases them, they give them work papers so that they can find work. Nice, Americans less and less need to apply.
Illegal immigration is an issue for trades, though most the pressure there lands in Carpentry and Plumbing.
Thing is I have no problem with a hard working immigrants, even illegal if they really are just trying to make a life, They need to at least make it legal! (meaning illegal immigrants just trying to have a life need to come clean and get in the system)
Americans don’t want to work? False IF YOU PAY THEM A COMPETITIVE WAGE. Employees have a lot of choices, but why have loyalty to a company that is only paying you 15-30, if you are lucky. Consider inflation, cost of living, and so forth. Thanks to Biden that is increasingly subsistance—barely enough to pay the basics. Don’t plan on retirement, vacations, car or home repairs (as if you could afford a home). And electric car in the next 12 years, yeah, right.
My grandson just got out of the Army and starts welding school in Houston later this month. Do welders do OK?
Yes! Welding is constantly in short demand, just be willing to go where the work is.
Shame on you. So you’ll hire and work with an illegal alien, letting them take a job of an American or a legal immigrant. How patriotic and loyal you are. Must be a Democrat and card carrying member of the chamber of commerce. Have you faced your friends, kids, neighbors, church members,and community and said your passing over Americans to hire illegals and, likely, the only way you’ll hire an American is if they accept the lower wages your paying illegals? And, oh, for those lower wages, everyone gets to supplement your savings by the cost-shifting of their education and health care and all onto everyone’s taxes, crowded hospitals, and crowded schools. Yes, shame on you and everyone like you that thinks it is okay to hire illegal aliens.
Thanks. I am glad he is doing that instead of college with his GI bill.
No I would not hire, I just said I can understand and tolerate them if they legalize!
I have enough understanding of the world to realize that everyone who steals a loaf of bread is not doing it out of greed or corruption.
His starting wage will likely be between 35k and 45k a year. The trick it to get more certs and go where the high wages are. Also do the welding requiring the more advanced certs. I know welders making over 100k.
Yes.
There is a set that you are nothing unless you “go to college”.
Half do not even get their degrees and most degrees are worthless.
It leads to current situation of mass of left leaning, unemployed or underemployed, college educated, so called “elites”. They think, as educated, they deserve lots of money and recognition, but they are mostly useless, or even counterproductive.
Breeding ground for Antifa, BLM, equity movements.
We should really advertise, that getting good trade and being good at it is worth a lot more more that most degrees!
Thank you, I will talk to him. I already told him that he will have to go where the work is.
“I know, we have to think that.”
You can say crazy things, but that doesn’t make them true. If you seriously think that Russias economy is in any way equivalent to ours, you are either uninformed, or just willfully spouting non sense.
For every numbskull in gender studies, there are 20 people out there producing useful things.
You are spouting a line similar to what our enemies propaganda creators say. “America is no good, everything here is corrupt”.
People in Russia, North Korea, Iran, and Red China say this. And yes many people on college campuses in the US. But the vast majority of America isn’t this way.
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