re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

There was a time when you could take up a trade or a factory job and after you had piled up enough seniority, you found yourself earning nearly as well as people with university degrees.

Most of those jobs are gone, and most of the ones open to people without some kind of degree are dead end, low-paid and without benefits or security.

I worked at a big mainframe computer manufacturer for the first phase of my career. The best, and I mean by far the best, engineers at the place were the non-degreed ones who had worked themselves up from technician. They were the first let go when the new Havard MBA guy took over as division president. He couldn’t fathom paying engineer salaries to somebody without a college degree. Start of the end for the corporation.