re: #198 Slumbering Behemoth

There’s damn good money to be made in skilled trades, and we have a terrible deficit of young folk interested in them these days.

I think this may be due to how our culture currently views a college education versus a trade education, in that working with your hands, skilled or not, is seen as something that people of lesser intellect or breeding are meant for.

Which I think results in many finding themselves in this position.

A skilled tradesman is an educated person. And often, more educated than a white collar. But far too many trade jobs that were protected by unions have been decimated by cheap labor. I am old enough to remember when a carpenter was a job that made enough money to raise a family. Now, not much more than flipping burgers, unless you are the contractor, and then competition is ridiculous.