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'Inspiring and eye-opening': Gen Z's interest in skilled trades is rising
Just the News ^ | 11/3/24 | Tate Miller

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: career; college; economy; education; genz; profession; trades
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We've discussed this issue here several times in the past.

Those going into skilled trades are soon going to be employing gender studies graduates to clean the fleet vehicles of their plumbing business.

1 posted on 11/03/2024 10:09:42 PM PST by CFW
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To: CFW

The new entreprenurial class! Good on them.


2 posted on 11/03/2024 10:13:09 PM PST by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Nervous Tick

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.


3 posted on 11/03/2024 10:26:47 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken (uely)
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To: CFW

Gen Z is smart enough to realize that four year college is mostly a money pit.


4 posted on 11/03/2024 10:32:07 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: CFW

Don’t forget Gen Z, Kamala thinks you’re “stupid” and “make bad decisions”.


5 posted on 11/03/2024 10:35:58 PM PST by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

For at least 20 years I have been passing by a pre-fabricated framing and truss operation.


6 posted on 11/03/2024 11:01:58 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: CFW

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.


7 posted on 11/03/2024 11:42:51 PM PST by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Someone is still knocking those frames together. My nephew worked at one of those places. All they did all day was hammer frames together.


8 posted on 11/04/2024 2:03:52 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: CFW

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.


9 posted on 11/04/2024 2:21:11 AM PST by AZJeep
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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.


10 posted on 11/04/2024 2:32:13 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: CFW

This is good, so how about we start repatriating some of those jobs we offshored so they can find work in their trades?


11 posted on 11/04/2024 3:22:12 AM PST by TwelveOfTwenty (Will whoever keeps asking if this country can get any more insane please stop?)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken
...but they sure have reduced the skills needed in carpentry.

Nah, just relocated them.

https://www.williampoole.com/factory_built/

https://www.thehousefactory.net/

12 posted on 11/04/2024 4:29:01 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: CFW

My son. Degree in Accounting who does electrical work.


13 posted on 11/04/2024 4:30:19 AM PST by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: CFW

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.


14 posted on 11/04/2024 5:14:01 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: CFW

Who needs college when you can make $130/hr as a plumber or electrician.


15 posted on 11/04/2024 5:17:09 AM PST by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: telescope115

We could use skilled men in Appalachia right now...


16 posted on 11/04/2024 5:20:01 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

” The quality of the lumber is phenomenal.”

So it’s not from Home Depot then?


17 posted on 11/04/2024 5:46:53 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty

“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.


18 posted on 11/04/2024 5:48:27 AM PST by dljordan (What would Michael Collins do?)
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To: CFW

THEY STILL NEED the basic education they didn’t get-—MATH in particular.


19 posted on 11/04/2024 6:07:26 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: CFW

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.


20 posted on 11/04/2024 8:38:42 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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