Everyone we know who was trained in a skilled trade (plumber, electrician) is now making six figures per. Happy men and women. Maybe the jobs don’t have that liberal cachet, but the families are doing well.
Just sayin’.
Skilled blue collar people seem to be the happiest people in America - as long as they stay off drugs.
Of course, unskilled blue collar people have a hard life with illegals willing to work for less, etc.
mrs. a. Our little town is in dire need of the skilled trades people.
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs fame is pointing this out. There are millions of skilled trade positions that are unfilled, which illegals without skills can’t do and college graduates don’t know how to do.
And all these people who flunked out of college should have been trained to do, while the employers often offer to pay for the training to get new people into them, from diesel mechanic to CNC machine programmer. Semiconductor manufacturing, for example, is a one year training program.