1 year ago9 points(+0/-0/+9Score on mirror)3 children
No it doesn't. With the exception of extreme jobs (oil rigs etc) the pay is mediocre at best.
This whole "just do trades" meme needs to die. You can't have a nation of only welders and construction workers. Somebody needs to think, pray, plan, design, invent, lead, organize, account, trade, communicate etc.
100 million white collar currency manipulators, landlords, investment speculators, and private equity manipulators has made being middle class an undesirable goal. Middle class trade people and factory workers used to have comfortable lives including home ownership, vacations, and families. Yes we need leadership, but there's less for the middle class every year due to our broken monetary system with ridiculous inflation, foreign money in every investment market (land, stocks, and private equity management), and formerly "free trade" which only sucked all the comfort out of the middle class.
A country full of tradesmen and factory workers protected from market manipulation would absolutely flourish when the trade off for hard labor is home ownership, vacations, retirement and families.
Only social program we're missing is free basic life saving medical care with the ability to still buy private insurance for non-life saving care. Like we get free police and fire rescue, but we can still buy private services on top of that.
We can have an incredible nation if we were more insular and thought about making our workers' jobs desirable instead of treating them like an expensive version of a chinamen or punjab.
No one with the talent for leadership, design, engineering, or architecture is going to miss out on their ability to flourish either.
I worked in several major city’s and the trades can be pretty lucrative there but I moved to rural America and everything pays shit out here. It’s only a few dollars higher than the starting wage at McDonald’s.
The only people I know who make what is considered “good” money today in the trades are either union, or own their own business now. Most of them are beat to shit, and miserable all the time. The bottom line is it’s not what it use to be. With that said, I do know a guy who does honey dew/do lists in his area as side jobs. All word of mouth. He paints, plumbs, and can do some basic electrical. He makes really good money, and none of it is taxed. He does pressure washing also, and has a couple of landscaping gigs here and there. He does well, and most would never know. Dude looks, and lives poor as fuck. He could probably retire now if he wanted to. He does have some demons though. I guess we all do though.
This whole "just do trades" meme needs to die. You can't have a nation of only welders and construction workers. Somebody needs to think, pray, plan, design, invent, lead, organize, account, trade, communicate etc.
A country full of tradesmen and factory workers protected from market manipulation would absolutely flourish when the trade off for hard labor is home ownership, vacations, retirement and families.
Only social program we're missing is free basic life saving medical care with the ability to still buy private insurance for non-life saving care. Like we get free police and fire rescue, but we can still buy private services on top of that.
We can have an incredible nation if we were more insular and thought about making our workers' jobs desirable instead of treating them like an expensive version of a chinamen or punjab.
No one with the talent for leadership, design, engineering, or architecture is going to miss out on their ability to flourish either.