Posted on 11/03/2024 10:09:42 PM PST by CFW
Social media’s influence is causing Gen Z’s interest in skilled trades to rise, according to a report by Thumbtack – something a trade organization co-director said is “inspiring and eye-opening.”
“55% of Gen Zers are considering a skilled trade career (up 12% from last year) – including 72% of those with a college degree,” Thumbtack’s report stated.
Thumbtack is a company that helps people “care for and improve their homes” by finding a skilled tradesman nearby.
“84% of both Gen Zers and their parents express high respect for the skilled trades,” according to Thumbtack’s report.
The report shows that social media is a driving force behind Gen Z’s interest in trades, with “67% of Gen Zers – including 78% of those with a college degree – [saying] social media has increased their interest in these professions.”
“Skilled trades professionals are driving this trend, with 60% of pros saying that their careers are becoming increasingly ‘Instagrammable,’” the report stated, which feeds Gen Z’s desire to “[keep] it real” and “see both the good and bad parts of ‘a hard day’s work.’”
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Those going into skilled trades are soon going to be employing gender studies graduates to clean the fleet vehicles of their plumbing business.
The new entreprenurial class! Good on them.
Recently moved to Vegas where I bought a new home in a subdivision that will be built out over the next 15 months. Fascinating to observe the construction process and see the advanced techniques being used here. Significant dumbing down of onsite carpentry skills by modularizing the framing process, and delivering factory fabricated trusses, wall sections and other sub assemblies that essentially are snapped together at the site. What yo do not hear are skil saws, and you hear very little hammering. The quality of the lumber is phenomenal.
Not sure that I would go so far as to say they have eliminated skilled trades, but they sure have reduced the skills needed in carpentry.
Gen Z is smart enough to realize that four year college is mostly a money pit.
Don’t forget Gen Z, Kamala thinks you’re “stupid” and “make bad decisions”.
For at least 20 years I have been passing by a pre-fabricated framing and truss operation.
We need skilled machinists! Math skills are important! Without good math skills, nothing gets built. And the U.S. is more interesting in “gender studies” and turning our kids into guinea pigs for social and biological experimentation.
Someone is still knocking those frames together. My nephew worked at one of those places. All they did all day was hammer frames together.
Skilled plumbers and electricians make killing.
So do other skilled trades like tool and die makers, millwrights, car mechanics, ...
Kids in high school are being told that they must go to college to make a carrier.
And, yes, there are well paying college jobs, like MD’s, engineers, lawyers, accountants, MBA’s, ...
If you are highly skilled, you can sometimes apply even some less desirable degree to great carrier in sales, marketing, management, ...
(I remember a history major being CEO of a large corporation!)
But unfinished or barely passing basket waving degree will get you nowhere.
There are like million college graduates bussing tables, trying to pay off their student debts.
Isn’t blue collar work what all those young immigration kids is about? They were never going to be a replacement for the pre-mass immigration Americans who put us on the moon and led the world in science and medicine.
Gen-Z was always going to replace the Americans they and their dads pushed out of the trades and construction.
This is good, so how about we start repatriating some of those jobs we offshored so they can find work in their trades?
Nah, just relocated them.
https://www.williampoole.com/factory_built/
https://www.thehousefactory.net/
My son. Degree in Accounting who does electrical work.
GenZ males are trending more conservative while their female counterparts wallow in the shallows of idiot progressivism. They also outnumber their female counterparts in their interest in faith. Now returning to the traditional strengths of men as doers and. builders. Who would have guessed? Hope is still alive.
Who needs college when you can make $130/hr as a plumber or electrician.
We could use skilled men in Appalachia right now...
” The quality of the lumber is phenomenal.”
So it’s not from Home Depot then?
“This is good, so how about we start repatriating some of those jobs we offshored so they can find work in their trades?”
Institute tariffs on foreign goods.
THEY STILL NEED the basic education they didn’t get-—MATH in particular.
Illegals are suppressing wages. Why get an American when you can get an illegal for half the cost? One of my first college jobs was as a certified welder. The wages now are about the same, in late 1980s - early 1990s dollars as they are in 2024 dollars. Adjusted for inflation my starting wage, after getting certified was about $45 an hour. I have seen ads for welders NOW still offering the $20 - $25 an hour wage.
But the good thing about the trades is they can’t be exported. And with illegals now getting huge welfare payouts they won’t be competing as much. So get to work. Lots of people are relying on your tax dollars. Especially the bureaucrats.
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