Young people today.......Learn a trade. Go to a good trade school and become a plumber or a mechanic or a carpenter. You will be out of school faster, spend less money and in the end you could make good cash.
1) don't listen to women.
I can't stress this enough. Women wouldn't know how to build a functioning outhouse.
2) Learn a trade; a skill.
3) Master that skill.
4)Period.
One other thing; ignore women.
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It'll only stop when the real backlash takes hold.
HF
There is an entire INDUSTRY dedicated to the furtherance of this situation. It is the EDUCATION industry which obtains its money by hypnotizing the youth of today with the never-ending slogan, “You MUST go to College.”
The nation is overrun with degree holding young people who are capable of nothing needed by this country. In fact, on the opening day of the new school year, there are NO jobs in all to many of these fields , and there are none when you fresh faced graduate tries to enter the world.
Meanwhile, in technical, vocational high schools across the nation, work ready high school seniors are actually sought after and recruited by anxious employers.
Me, I am a 79 year old watchmaker, semi-retired and working “ONLY” 50 hour weeks and I wish I was not alone. I have my trade, but I’m sure lonely.Without the guy holding the “dirty job” this society we enjoy would come to a screeching halt.
Got multiple degrees & use the knowledge in a well-paying job. Still, between Shop classes and helping my Dad renovate our old house I learned another whole class of skills that continue to pay off. I may take longer than the pros, but I can do wiring that doesn’t burn the house down (and is better than the pro stuff it replaced) and plumbing and carpentry and sheetrock work etc. It feels good to do something tangible too.
“It’s not just that it celebrates fame and success, it’s that it celebrates them in a way that creates the idea that you can have them overnight. And so the expectations of what work was, and is, started to change.”
This is not true even of high-paying white-collar jobs. Anyone who wants to be successful in medicine, business, accounting, law, or information technology has to spend a lot of time working and learning. The guys who are successful as managers in large corporations come in at 8 AM and leave at 7 PM, and have been grinding away at it for years.
I work with some grads of Tulsa Welding School. They make 90k, +-. Ours is a stable job with no travel involved.
Those that get a degree from TWS and are willing to travel can make up to 100k-125k AND take off summers and winters. If you’re willing to work year round, the sky’s the limit.
——skills gap——
The piece fails to mention the real problem. The real problem is not school or college or training. The primary problem is motivation. Work is a drag.
To get the training or trade school involves being motivated to get up every day and go. The motivation includes no drugs or alcohol in the drug test. The cost of weeding out those who aren’t reliable or that do drugs is enormous.
This is essentially testimony I have received from those that hire workers some times known as blue collar workers.