Trends show Gen Z is choosing trade school over college
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- Опубліковано 27 кві 2024
- For many Gen Z high schoolers, the rising costs of college and looming student debt aren’t worth having to put off major life milestones, such as purchasing a house or a car. According to the National Student Clearinghouse, enrollment in vocation-focused community colleges rose by 16% in 2023.
Drew Greenblatt, the CEO of Marlin Steel Wire Products, says he has noticed the shift. "I think people have misunderstood what the economy needs. The economy needs a blend of some doctors and lawyers where you have to go to college, and you also have some places where you need plumbers-where you need welders or you need people that work in construction," explained Greenblatt.
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Definitely the cost. Also we have massive CTE programs at high school now. I have students who get internships in the senior year. When I graduated in 2000, EVERYONE was pushed towards an undergrad degree... Definitely different now.
College is a waste of time and money. I wasted ten years going to school and graduated in 2018. Most of the top and most talented artists in film and animation industry are self taught or they had mentors. They didn't even go to school for it. Also, kids are making so much money on social media platforms, it's ridiculous. Especially the females who are given websites such as OnlySimps. They make thousands or millions now.
23 Year Diesel mechanic here.
Went to college because of pressure from family and work. Dropped out of college half way through a Hydrology degree to become a mechanic. What sold blue collar work to most people in 2024. Other than cost of college loans. Covid. Most white collar jobs get destroyed during COVID. I had to work every day during Covid. Most Blue collar minus Construction have work every year and every day. When 08 Housing hit. I still had a job. Lots of construction lost jobs. Most blue collar jobs are recession proof.
Fortunately, the Infrastructure Bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, and dozens of other executive actions have mandated apprenticeships, funding for trade and vocational programs, expanded worker safety and organizing rights, and a historic reinvestment in the manufacturing, industrial, agricultural, and trades sectors.
Inflation production act*
Going for the jobs that cannot be done by ChapGPT ?
A.I. + robots = EVERY human is useless.
It's a shame that student debt has basically been the hold back to starting ones life.
In Norway we're starting to see a precarious shortage of trade educated students/workers as the economy is getting better in the Baltics/Poland and more and more of their 1000's of very skilled migrant workers (especially in construction) chose to move back home. We also see the same withing services as many Swedish/Danish youth now also prefer to move home. Maybe we should stop with literally free college education as 32% of men and 42% of women now have university degrees.
but who will pay their student loans?
Trades have no student loans
Trade school is affordable. Even if they took out a loan, they can reasonably pay it back. But that's not the case with predatory student loans, exceedingly higher tuition & costs, and greedy universities that help only the rich whilst shackling the poor.
@@kingace6186 a lot of trades do apprenticeships where you GET paid.
Especially if they go union they have paid training
@kingace6186 speak for yourself 🤓 🖕
About time. I did this 28 years ago
Did it 23 years ago. The shortage made blue collar jobs much better.
Good on him, but atrocious English for a native speaker. Take part in*, not of. I kept cringing throughout the video. Maybe I'm a bit pedantic but as a Malaysian who had to learn English by the book, their standard of English seriously disappoints me. Like, I spent all this effort to learn it out of respect and they don't even bother trying. The Brits and Aussies are just a little better.
Chips act.
Inflation production act
The smart ones are!!
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