If everyone opts for an education in IT this country will cease to exist.
Plumbers, electricians, welders and many other neede vocations/professions can easily earn ~$75-100k a year and they wont have huge student debts.
I admit I’m an oldster, but I believe it’s wrong to push so many towards IT jobs, as only a few will make the big bucks, while the rest will become little more than clerks in the industry.
True. The physical jobs, such as the trades you mentioned, as well as healthcare workers, auto mechanics, and retail and restaurant workers, are here to stay.
But, meanwhile, more and more office jobs are filled by foreign workers or outsourced overseas. And they're handling sensitive information. It's not just the IT workers. People in India and the Philippines, for example, are handling Americans' mortgage payments and credit card applications.
Average Welder Hourly Pay: $17.98
Average Electrician Hourly Pay: $21.87
Data from payscale.com
These are not princely wages.