re: Man makes a video showing these trade jobs are for the taking in 5 years

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Talked to a guy recently who said his company near Boston is working on robotic handymen that can be ordered to come to your house and fix stuff.

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R&D projects like this typically don't materialize for 15 to 30 years anyway.

It’ll be interesting to see what the work force looks like in 20 years. Most of the younger generation is about quick fame/fortune through social media or some sort of start up. The younger generation doesn’t have the mental capacity to grind it out at the big corporate cog for 30+ years and have a stable career.

Thats not how I thought my kid would make worldstar

It's nearly impossible to find a bricklayer worth a shite nowadays. Used to be that there were a core group of black guys who were regular DaVincies with a trowel. Now, it's a guy from south of the border who tries really hard, but I swear that the extent of his training is that he watched a youtube video on bricklaying while in the truck on the way to the job this morning.

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Gender studies degrees will fill these jobs.

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If I was 23 right now I’d take my chances with a gender studies degree over digging trenches for pipes under a 3 foot tall porch in the Louisiana summer heat.
I get the world needs ditch diggers too, but I’d try and avoid that fate. As miserable as it sounds at 23 it sounds even worse at 35 or 45.

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The plan would be to hire legal guys hungry enough to understand I'm their mentor. I want them owning their own trucks later. Some will decide to sell cars, some will sell insurance, some will execute "Trades AF." Make them succeed, is my plan.

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There are none to hire!

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My dad, who worked in HVAC, was very against me going into the trades. I’d imagine that was a common thing since going to college and the white collar world was seen as the only successful path. Interesting to see trades take a rise these days.

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I’m considering getting into trades. My only gripe is the hours. I don’t mind manual labor, but I work to provide a life for my family that includes me being in it.

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f I was 23 right now I’d take my chances with a gender studies degree over digging trenches for pipes under a 3 foot tall porch in the Louisiana summer heat. I get the world needs ditch diggers too, but I’d try and avoid that fate. As miserable as it sounds at 23 it sounds even worse at 35 or 45.

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Ditch digging isn’t a trade. That’s why laborers do it for low pay. Besides they use small excavators 99.9% of the time now anyways.

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It’ll be interesting to see what the work force looks like in 20 years. Most of the younger generation is about quick fame/fortune through social media or some sort of start up. The younger generation doesn’t have the mental capacity to grind it out at the big corporate cog for 30+ years and have a stable career.

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You act like they chose this culture. It's exactly what they were sold and Gen X and the boomers have raked in the cash because of it. How many boomers are going to retire because of apple/google/facebook/Netflix, etc.?

Millennials were told their whole lives that the optimal thing to do was go to college and even blue collar boomers were telling their kids not to do what they did.


Boomers also told their kids not to get married and have kids until they were financially set up.

Millennials listened to everything they said and sold, but it turns out they were all wrong. The boomers were wrong about everything.