• cheers_queers
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    123 months ago

    learning a trade should be more encouraged, you can make a shit ton of money (relatively) without the debt

    • Suite404
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      153 months ago

      True, but that isn’t an option for everyone and we still need scientists and doctors and such.

      • cheers_queers
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        43 months ago

        oh i know but college shouldn’t be the default. i work in elementary and they have college posters up in the halls.

        • Suite404
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          33 months ago

          College stuff up in elementary schools is pretty crazy.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      53 months ago

      True, but that might take you 10 years to get to a point where you’re no longer the new person and have skills to back it up.

      • cheers_queers
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        63 months ago

        that goes for any skilled labor. doesn’t make what i said any less true.

        also, there are paid apprenticeships with unions if you look.

        • @stoly@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          lol tell that to my angry brothers who work in construction. they were so antiunion and it hurt them

      • Zoot
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        13 months ago

        Not sure what trade you guys do, but by the 2 year mark as an electrician I was hardly considered a new guy, and had most of the skills required. The next 8 years was learning every edge case that could pop up.

        By year 5 though I was easily fine all out on my own. Most journeyman only need about 4 years of experience, and they’re qualified to go start their own company.

        No debt, little schooling, all of which was paid for by my companies, and an extremely valuable life skill. (Not to mention i get paid extremely well) Join a trade kids.

        • @stoly@lemmy.world
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          13 months ago

          I made up a number when I said 10–it was rhetorical. But from your own story, you’re looking at 5 before you’re making the money.

          • Zoot
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            13 months ago

            More like 2 years, less than a degree requires.

    • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      Yes, but only because of shortage of people in that field, and good luck working in it as a disabled person! Most likely you’ll work under someone else, and that’s not like helping your father do gardening work, so there will be hard quotas and deadlines.

    • @Mirshe@lemmy.world
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      33 months ago

      This isn’t even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.