High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University

[BmoreGorilla]

Why do people act like trades are simple lol.

They really are with the proper training. Also my job helps place our graduates in jobs whey theyre done. Ive seen convicted felons with face tats finish school and now some of them even own their own business. Theyre out here when everybody they knew counted them out

 

[BmoreGorilla]

They can be replaced by robots, the robots just aren't there yet. Give it time.

My opinion on the topic is that blue collar work has been viewed as less than human and pushed as that for some time now. Everyone doesn't belong in college and those that don't should be looking to enter trades. However, funding for trades in high school doesn't exist anymore along with art and music. People are being pushed into colleges just to spend money they don't have and end up not doing anything with their degree after school.

Its not about the robots not being here. Its about state laws. Even when robots do get here there is a ton of red tape that would need to be got thru

 

[Noriega]

Everybody doesn't want to be a pipe fitter or sheet metal worker or the rest of these flintstones ass jobs

Right I’m sure having a communications degree working a call center job with thousands of dollars in student loan debt is much better

Ik guys who are ironworkers or cement masons who work March to October every year making 70k+ and chill down in Florida, Arizona the rest of the year, collecting unemployment

 

[Reece]

That's all over the rates are getting cheaper. The dude got a $50,000 to be 100 ft above the ground.

When a Mexican could probably do it for 30,000-40,000. People in this thread acting like mexicans aren't gettin paid for cheap labor.

Exactly. Trade jobs are the first jobs that will be automated away and the first jobs illegals will suppress wages for. They about to create driverless trucks but you think they not gonna figure out how to automate the rest? Okay.

 

[FSP]

People keep preaching STEM degrees on here. fukk that get a skill and you will always be able to bring in an income. I work at a trade school so I see the results. A lot of people look down on trades becuz we are wired to wanna make as much money with as little effort as possible. Some people work better with their hands and there's a lot of pride that comes with that. An 18 year old could start electrical training right now and be a master before they even hit 30

All the trades dudes I know work hard af

 

[Noriega]

I’m into programming now

The Mexicans out west got the construction industry on lock

And half these muthafukkas can’t speak English

That’s cuz the unions out there pay pennies compared to what they pay up north
@Shook

Think a first year apprentice laborer in AZ makes $15 vs $23 here in Chicago

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

People want stability. They parents are telling not tp dp jobs like that. Iron workers get laid off. People getting degrees and going into service jobs this is a serviced based economy. Lazy ass Americans ain't trying to do manual labor jobs no matter the pay.

 

[god shamgod]

Right I’m sure having a communications degree working a call center job with thousands of dollars in student loan debt is much better

Ik guys who are ironworkers who work March to October every year making 70k+ and chill down in Florida, Arizona the rest of the year

So? I know people with degrees who go on business trips to l.a. or new york city and get paid to kick it or get free tickets to nba games in suites cuz their company is a sponsor or have work days that end at 1-2 pm 3-4 days a week

That's better than being a damn plumber

 

[chickenteriyaki]

His job is extremely labor intensive yet he makes only (yes, only) $50,000 for it. His salary would need to double in order for him to afford a home where he is. People who have trade jobs are more likely to have to stop working early due to work related injury thus putting them in a bad financial and economic situation.

My friend is a commercial electrician bringing home close to $150 a year plus side jobs yet he even says he doesn’t know if his body can work the job to 45. He’s 33.

I would never want my child on the trade job path.

 

[Noriega]

So? I know people with degrees who go on business trips to l.a. or new york city and get paid to kick it or have work days that end at 1-2 pm 3-4 days a week

That's better than being a damn plumber

They’ll still be working in they 50s

Pops was a union carpenter for 30 years retired at 49, dude got a 4500 a month pension + awesome benefits

Show me a corporate tech job with those type benefits

 

[BmoreGorilla]

All the trades dudes I know work hard af

Yea breh that was my whole point

 

[Noriega]

I would never want my child on the trade job path.

So you wouldn’t want your child to have a skill that they could travel anywhere to work with, guaranteed pension/healthcare/personal days, plus the ability to make close to 6 figures

Do you sis

 

[BillBanneker]

They've been talking about the lack experienced people since I've graduated HS. I know at my and my younger brother's HS they (trade schools/businesses themselves) really didn't promote it at all. You really had to be trade oriented or know someone to be exposed to it at all. I know for welding at least locally, the classes for welding/electrical is maxed out. Local rednecks got that on lock.

Thing about them trade jobs is sometimes there is a gatekeeper, especially in the south. They locking nikkas out of construction and the union positions.

Yeah, this is a big thing. My pops luckily knew some people to get into his apprenticeship program, and even then, its still like college where you have to work for some years before you can clear big money (depends on the trade/state laws).

 

[god shamgod]

They’ll still be working in they 50s

Pops was a union carpenter for 30 years retired at 49, dude got a 4500 a month pension + awesome benefits

Show me a corporate tech job with those type benefits

I know someone who works at google who getting 100k at 35 years old who gets paid to travel which is better than being a carpenter for 30 years hauling lumber doing manual labor

congrats to your pops and his pension union ass nikka shut the fukk up

 

[MMA]

The problem isn't college, it's the idiot parents who haven't educated their kids on finances especially loans.

And trades aren't all cracked out to be what people make it sound like but

the parents who think it's smart for their child to go to school for 4 + years without getting any real life example of what they want to do are in deep shyt.

A nikka working in some trade starting at let's say 30K and gradually going up will see let's say 160-220k in a 4 year time span oppose to the college kid who created a false idea of being busy then begins making a real earning in their mid 20's.