The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
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Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#2I do remote software work from a very picturesque but somewhat remote coastal village in Sweden that has been largely left behind by urbanisation.
My impression is that there's no reluctance to go into these lines of work for young local people here. I imagine it would be the same in the US.
In the cities where there are more office work opportunities for young people, even without any qualifications to speak of: it seems like there are a lot of people from eastern Europe working in these fields.
Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#3Everything would be fine in these industries if rent and homes were cheaper.
Instead people think they have to make top dollar just to survive and avoid lots of otherwise fulfilling jobs.
Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#4Same labor shortage as everywhere that the government likes to pretend doesn't exist. 10 million working-age men can't or won't work. Of the ones willing to work, almost none want to spend their time learning skills for back-breaking, barely-middle class skills jobs which they'll be forced to retire from at 55 because their knees give out.
Same answer for the shortage as everywhere that the economists don't want to hear: pay more, allow more immigration, get better benefits especially for parents.
Edit: also in this case universal healthcare, universal mandatory PTO, would also extremely help
Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#5How much of this is class signifiers in the age of increasingly tenuous existences on anyone but the wealthy? I wouldn’t own a farm even with existing subsidies on agriculture specifically because it will destroy my body and then I’ll be on the hook for all that healthcare.
Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#6Same labor shortage as everywhere that the government likes to pretend doesn't exist. 10 million working-age men can't or won't work. Of the ones willing to work, almost none want to spend their time learning skills for back-breaking, barely-middle class skills jobs which they'll be forced to retire from at 55 because their knees give out. Same answer for the shortage as everywhere that the economists don't want to h…
Pay more yet also increase the supply of labor which drives down wages.
Seems not the answer.
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Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#8Same labor shortage as everywhere that the government likes to pretend doesn't exist. 10 million working-age men can't or won't work. Of the ones willing to work, almost none want to spend their time learning skills for back-breaking, barely-middle class skills jobs which they'll be forced to retire from at 55 because their knees give out. Same answer for the shortage as everywhere that the economists don't want to h…
I’ve done both kinds of work on my own home. Calling it back breaking is pure hyperbole. Is it physical, certainly. But it’s something you can easily do until you’re 50 without issue and between 40 to 50, you can start taking apprentices that do the taxes that benefit from youth. Of the plumbers and carpenters I’ve hired, they are all in no worse shape than other adults their age.
I sit at a computer all day and it’s not good for my body either as I’m more sedentary than is healthy. I would say that my work is equally unhealthy but in different ways.
Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#9Same labor shortage as everywhere that the government likes to pretend doesn't exist. 10 million working-age men can't or won't work. Of the ones willing to work, almost none want to spend their time learning skills for back-breaking, barely-middle class skills jobs which they'll be forced to retire from at 55 because their knees give out. Same answer for the shortage as everywhere that the economists don't want to h…
Pay more yet also increase the supply of labor which drives down wages. Seems not the answer.
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Re: The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
#10Same labor shortage as everywhere that the government likes to pretend doesn't exist. 10 million working-age men can't or won't work. Of the ones willing to work, almost none want to spend their time learning skills for back-breaking, barely-middle class skills jobs which they'll be forced to retire from at 55 because their knees give out. Same answer for the shortage as everywhere that the economists don't want to h…
Independent plumbers/local plumbing businesses can easily earn $1,000/day with 2-3 service calls. Not sure how universal healthcare, PTO, immigration, and more pay have to do with this.
Edit: Thank you for all the downvotes for me calling out the weird correlation between tech benefits/politics and plumber skill-shortage + high-reward wages. Your wokeism will forever benefit society.