re: #122 freetoken

The skilled trades are suffering a large shortage of people willing to apprentice and study to become licensed tradesman. Why? Perhaps because now actually working with your hands and building things is looked down upon, only people too stupid to attend college do that, right?

Once upon a time trade schools and apprenticeships were seen as an great opportunity for young adults. Now it is seen as a failure, learning a trade is sneered at, even by the excess of college graduates who cannot find that lucrative job they were promised by their parents and the schools brochures.

I have met some promising young people that had no direction and no firm career path but if you try to interest them in the trades the rejection is universal. Because working with your hands in construction is only for moronic losers, real Americans only work in air conditioned offices in front of computer monitors.