Posted on 04/02/2024 6:27:00 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Increasing numbers of Generation Z are opting out of college and turning to vocational schools with hopes of higher wages and avoiding student debt, data shows.
Young people who came of age during the pandemic said they have been deterred from four-year universities by high tuition and the prospect of student debt.
Instead, they are attending trade schools and are being enticed by well-paying job opportunities and satisfying work.
The National Student Clearing House recorded a 16 percent increase in enrollment at two-year schools with a 'high vocational program focus' and a 2.6 percent rise in community college enrollment in 2023, reported Bloomberg.
'It's a really smart route for kids who want to find something and aren't gung ho on going to college,' wielding program graduate Tanner Burgess, 20, told The Wall Street Journal.
'It feels good at the end of the day, I'm physically doing something and there's a sense of completion.'
There was a 23 percent increase in students studying construction trades in 2023 compared to the year before, and a seven percent increase in HVAC and vehicle maintenance and repair programs.
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If I had a kid now, I’d demand that they learn a trade first. There’s plenty of time to get a University degree later.
It’s just common sense. Why be herded into college because some teacher says it’s the right thing to do, collect massive debt, waste a few years of life and learn something that cannot be used to gain employment?
Many of the technical trades are great paying jobs. Many employers offer on the job training to get the employee now and train him the way he wants to instead of getting a kid filled with political mush.
I made a fairly decent living in the trades and managed to accumulate enough wealth to retire with the goodies and toys we want and can eat a good meal anytime we want. Everything we possess is paid off.
Unfortunately more and more professions are requiring at least a four year college degree to enter. Many years ago one could apprentice in an accounting firm and take the CPA exam. Now to be eligible to take the exam one must have at least a BA or BA degree. I understand that some states require 5 years of college to take the exam.
well, maybe I might expand that to STEM + medicine & law
Just about everything else is a bad investment.
If true, this is fantastic news.
And many firms will pay for your college courses-Wal Mart will pay their employees to obtain degrees in logistics and supply chain management.
I imagine there will be a further issue down the road where a great many young women go to college, don’t learn valuable skills, get their heads filled with nonsense, and come out into the world focusing on marrying a man with higher status than theirs. The women will be poor, working at coffee shops, and turning their nose up at the welders and plumbers who flirt with them. (Although those guys would probably have enough sense to steer well clear of college girls.)
This, of course, is not new at all. It’s been very apparent for quite awhile.
But as men avoid college, and as college becomes increasingly gynocentric, the gap between men and the women who find those men acceptable is going to grow a lot.
Another argument for opening our borders. They'll have to import their wives because American women are not worthy of marriage.
I believe there is a growing phenomenon of “Passport Bros” — men who go overseas to meet women who are more traditional and not brainwashed feminists. Many American women are livid that the guys are rejecting the girls at home so much.
Plumbing is a lucrative trade all right, but I don’t think I’ve ever met a plumber over 40 who didn’t have a really bad back.
Most of our friends homeschooled like we did. As we were graduating our kids we could see the college scam turning. My youngest son is 25. Almost all of his friends went into the trades. One is a cop, my son and a buddy are not he truckers, another is a lineman.
Smart kids, zero debt, great incomes.
They will turn up their noses for three reasons:
1) A welder is working class, a college degree is supposed to make one professional class.
2) A welder's flirt is a DEI-soaked wokewomyn's misogynist aggression. The relationship can't even begin.
3) A welder is going to be Aristotelian, without knowing he is Aristotelian; he just thinks it's normal to work hard, balance money, be the man of the house while respecting and loving his wife--and if he adds to that living for Moses or Jesus, so much the better. The wokewomyn sees this as the epitome of deplorableness; if the relationship somehow survives the flirt, it will never survive the ideological rift.
We are going to have a generation of wokewomyn who will be the Marxist equivalents of Marian the librarian.
There will also be a simultaneous generation of afterwoke women who will be willing to let the husband be the man of the house as long as the husband lets the wife be the brains of the house. My daughter is about to enter into such a marriage, and while I see the inevitable difficulties, I think they have a good shot at a lifelong relationship.
My older child is a young millennial and my younger son is gen-z. Both have gravitated towards trades. My older son choose not to go to college and do a trade instead, unlike most of his friends. He tried a lot of different things and found his niche - he loves his job and makes great money. His friends who went to college are all struggling. My younger son, college graduate, is starting to see the same - they are all new college graduates, but the only one who has started a career in his field is a biochemist. He has lost interest in his field of study and wants to work with his hands.
Those jobs also don’t come with ugly progressive indoctrination by brain dead ‘professors’ either - that’s a win.
going into the trades and dropping the high ed fields?
exactly what the globalists want.
this will leave America to be the country that’ll produce rubber dog sh*t in factories for the first world nations of the future.
Maybe it'll get them to change their behavior. But probably not. It's difficult for them to resist all the non-stop propaganda.
good- been noticing a lack of plumbers up and coming to replace the older plumbers in town, and mechanics (although with mechanics, it’s much much harder these days as there are so many electronics involved now- so fewer people want to be mechanics anymore)
"You see, there was this boy in the Air Force that I was very fond of. And I lost him to a Japanese girl...Believe me, the next man I meet I'm gonna forget that so-called American-emancipated-woman type of independence, and treat him just the way the girls in Japan do." - Sgt. Pearson, The Geisha Boy (1957)
The more things change...
But by then, a smart plumber has a LOT of money :-)
I have a grandson just finishing welding school. I could gush, but another time.
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