A blue collar is the result of basic laziness.
a decision not to be educated produces a blue collar”
Thats a really condescending statement.
It MAY be true in some cases. Some kids have no idea what to do out of high school. College is the last place they should be until they figure what they want to do. They really need to work before they go to college.
However many blue collar types make the decision to get into the trades. Its a great way to go and a great future.
Many blue collar jobs offer better pay, benefits and career opportunities than a worthless college degree. America’s largest private shipyard is located less than 15 miles from my office. A young person willing to work hard can sign on as a welding or machining trainee after preliminary training at a local trade school or community college. With more training (paid for by the company), completion of required certifications and 2-3 years of experience, that 21-year-old welder is making $100,000 a year, including overtime, with outstanding benefits and a pension package that will make them a millionaire by the time they retire in their 50s.
A guy I know is a physician who leads a very successful practice in the upper Mid-West. At a high school reunion, he was talking to a classmate he’d lost track of. The doctor was a military officer before going into medicine; his former high school friend went into an electrician training program after getting his diploma.
As the conversation shifted to tax laws and regulations governing small business, the doctor learned the electrician had a residential/contracting firm with a dozen trucks, more than 20 technicians and support staff working for him. And the electrician was making more than twice what the doctor earned, and the physician was in the mid/high six figures annually.
#7 & Bert
Going to college with FREE tuition money for basket weaving courses that you do not realize will cost you a fortune in future payments shows not being educated about finance and the colleges know this : )