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re: Trade School Starting Monday
Posted on 5/16/20 at 8:18 am to BigPerm30
Posted on 5/16/20 at 8:18 am to BigPerm30
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We should start exposing high school kids to mandatory trade classes as a part of high school. Kids need to understand that welding, electrical, plumbing is a hell of a career. You don’t need to be forced to go to college and spend $200k on a degree.
Somewhere along the way these professions were deemed inferior by our education system. There is constant demand for these fields and the earning potential is excellent but we’ve been conditioned to believe that some going nowhere cubical job making $50k per is better than working a trade.
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Posted on 5/16/20 at 8:24 am to skullhawk
I knew a guy that started college at UL for enignering, around the same time I started trade school 13 years ago. He would give me so much crap about how he would make more money, he was better blah blah. Now he lives in a shack and decided one day after being an engineer for 4 years only making 35k a year and student loans, it wasnt for him. I wont discuss what he does now, but you dont need a 4 year college degree.
Posted on 5/16/20 at 10:00 am to skullhawk
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Somewhere along the way these professions were deemed inferior by our education system. There is constant demand for these fields and the earning potential is excellent but we’ve been conditioned to believe that some going nowhere cubical job making $50k per is better than working a trade.
I'm not sure why, either. Tradesman have excellent wages, benefits, and in some cases, retirement packages. They get to see a project from start to finish and see an end result.
But I am not sure where this narrative got started that just anyone can do this. It really depends on the market for that trade. For instance, not just any dummy can get into the IBEW in a large area. There are many competitors for those seats, and if you have a bad test, or you frick up the interview, you're chances get slimmer. In some cases you can ace the interview, have a great test score, and still be put behind some people who just know the right person. And then if you do get in, some of them ask you to stay with that local for 5 years AFTER your apprenticeship. a decade commitment is a tough thing for anyone agree to, much less a 20 year old whose brain hasn't fully developed.
It's a great thing to get into, but I don't blame anyone for doing what they want. I blame school administrations for pushing college so hard.
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