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The $250k "Dumb" Career Path

Name: The $250k "Dumb" Career Path
Uploaded: 2025-03-28T13:04:02+00:00
Duration: 4 s
Channel: Peter Vander Wall
Description: A short transcript excerpt from a video discussion contrasting traditional college paths with skilled trades. Speakers challenge the stereotype that…

28 Mar 2025 · 0 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a video discussion contrasting traditional college paths with skilled trades. Speakers challenge the stereotype that trades are for the less intelligent and claim tradespeople can earn substantially more—potentially six figures by their 30s and ~$250,000 by retirement—if in the right trade.

If you're halfway smart, you go to college, and if you're dumb, you go into the trades.
That was how it was positioned. Yeah. When in reality, some of the people in the trades, they were making more money than people that went to college.
Absolutely. Your dad was an electrician? My dad's in construction.
Like, yeah.
You can make six figures in the trades by the time you're 30 or 35 these days, you'll be making a quarter of a million bucks by the time you retire, if you're in the right trade.