Nobody Wants To Learn Traded Skills!

12 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that there is a severe shortage of skilled tradespeople—plumbers, electricians, HVAC technicians—because the education system pushes students toward college and has removed vocational training from high schools. The speaker notes that pay rates for these trades have not risen, making them unattractive, and describes the difficulty homeowners face in finding reliable, affordable tradespeople, often having to contact many candidates. The speaker calls for a reversal of this trend by reinstating trade education in high schools to address the shortage and improve access to quality services.

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The problem is, is that we have a need for tons of other jobs and nobody wants to do those jobs anymore because everybody's being told, oh, you must go to college and all that. No one wants to do those jobs, bro, because the pay rate hasn't increased. So what I'm talking about— people aren't doing those jobs anymore. I know, but I'm talking about even college kids. I know, but I'm talking about plumbing, electricians, air conditioning. They took that out of the— we talked about that on a podcast before. They took that high school. They got to put it back in high schools because there's a major shortage. When you want to get— what are you talking about? Yeah, when you want to get something done at your house, man, you got to call 10 people before you find a guy that— and it's going to be expensive and you don't— you— yeah, and you don't know what their experience level is and all of that. That's got to change. But