curiooftheheart:

hawkeyedflame:

friendly-neighborhood-patriarch:

nunyabizni:

thinksquad:

They’re hiring people at Pre-apprentice level here for jobs like steelworker, welder, machinist, carpenter, and various other jobs in the “vocational” fields.

All these blue collar jobs prove have sneered at are in demand and pay well because there’s so little new blood and the old hands are aging out and enjoying a comfortable retirement.

if I don’t succeed in law, I know what I’m doing.

I’m a fast learner and have good hands.

My dad’s been fighting with the local public schools for years about the way they degrade vocational fields, and he’s also been working with the local vocational school for a very long time, allowing the welding students to come into the shop during training and sometimes hiring them when they graduate.

Mike Rowe has been advocating for blue collar workers for years. He has a foundation set up to help spread awareness and connect people with training programs, and he’s gone before Congress pleading the importance of these jobs.

This is important work. These are the jobs that keep our society running. And they are in desperate need of more hands.

Degrees suffer inflation and vocations suffer underemployment. Boosting the amount of people going vocational will also help those with degrees because it can fight that inflation.

Instead of “these job fields have too many open spots while these have so many applicants you now need a Master’s for stuff that used to take a Bachelor’s” it could be an actually healthy job market.