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.

I guess it’s a different position when both the “passion” and the “eventual trade” end up in similar categories. I loved math class and crunching numbers when I was a kid, still aced them in college. But I could just never imagine myself doing that for a career in, say, accounting.