Skilled trades have always been in high demand and very well paid.
It was the media/education establishment which claimed that the only way to success is to go to college.
Only now, young people are finally getting the message that being good electrician beats the earning power of some gender studies BS.
As a matter of fact, great skilled trades beat even lots of useful degree holders!
Easier to indoctrinate all of us if we ended up attending the university.
“Skilled trades have always been in high demand and very well paid.”
WERE paid well. Back in the 80s I made 25 an hour welding. Today, an entry lever welder makes the same. Not a single pay upgrade to catch up with inflation. I just lost my business even charging $150 an hour for tool and die work. Even that wasn’t enough to keep up with new expenses. But the pay of any intro level machinist is now worth less than what someone can make a grocery store.
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