I served in the airforce as well. I am not making 100K, but I have a decent job and a home all paid off. All because of what I learned from the airforce.
its depends on where you live but yes, ame can make 100,000 a year. im planning to pursue this career and i did some research. with enogh experience and in a location for demand it is possible. like in canada (where im from) there is a HUGE shortage of them
7 years in the Army here. Flew helicopters around the world for 38 years retiring 5 years ago to Europe. Made $100K each of my last 20 work years. Mostly just ride a Harley around Europe now.
I decided to start looking for a job as an apprentice carpenter. My mom basically said that kind of work is for losers and its beneath me. But the truth is, we're beneath a roof right now. And that's because of workers.
Bon Summers because after ww2, we were established as an industrial powerhouse, but most of the world still thought we were uneducated. The government then put the highest priority on becoming the smartest country in the world, which we were for a while, cementing the value of education over a hard day's work. Since then most kids have been brought up thinking college is necessary for success, and a job you didn't need college for is for poor people who couldn't afford an education. Once the aging population of tradesmen diminish and our aging infrastructure starts crumbling, the young people smart enough to realize the demand of skilled workers will make six figure salaries, earning every cent.
Ask what life would be like without these tradesmen/dirty job workers? Carpenters are losers? imagine a world with no wood workers, garbage men are losers, imagine a world without garbage men ect. Same thing can be said for basically every trade. People usually have a hard time not appreciating what they do when they really think about it.
ya but the people in power worship mamon and usury and want everyone to be a debt slave, i stay away from debt, im good at school but dont know what to do, ive made minimum wage my whole life work multiple jobs, life is jsut 1 big debt slave joke, honestly and people keep breeding with used pussy whores to make more debt slaves, soon america will go bankrupt and the pedophile bankers that did this will move on to another country and do the same thing, nothing new under the sun, its all 1 big scam
Buddy Dyer lol it's not debt for diploma that implies a fair trade. Its debt for the possibility of a diploma which they can take from you at any point. I know someone denied a P.H.D. because he was a white man talking about slavery.
My father and his brothers were trade school trained mechanics. I was taught to turn wrenches from the time I could hold tools. I went to vocational school and learned paint and body/ collision repair. That skill set enabled me to go to work in the automotive manufacturing industry. Having a great job with benefits enabled me, later on, to go to college and get my degree in engineering. With my degree, I was able go into the engineering side of automotive manufacturing. Better position, better pay. With that, I was able to put all of my kids through college without them having to be weighted down with thousands of dollars in student loans to repay. Now they all have good jobs and wonderful children of their own. All of this started with a blue collar trade learned while still in high school.
Actually some of the skilled trades especially heating and cooling, you need to be really smart in many areas such as physics, science, and chemistry, electricity and so on. So not only are you doing physical labor, youre really using your brain.
This is applicable for most trades, actually. Yeah running a shovel maybe not, but carpentry requires excellent math, geometry, physics when we get into structure, etc. Plumbers have to know what potentially causes failures to prevent flooding. Chemical exposure, pressure, etc. Electricians have to know amperage of loads in houses and how to minimize risks of shock, keep the house from burning down. Mechanics have to know physics to a fault to diagnose failures and figure out best methods of repair or replacement. Math, chemistry, physics, geometry, technology, all of it plays into the needs of a tradesman. Regardless of what trade it is, you gotta be intelligent. You have to understand the concept of what your given object of trade is exposed to and how to keep it going. They're physically taxing and mentally challenging and few people outside of the trades ever think of them that way. It's quite a shame that it's labeled sub par but can make you over 100,000 a year, doesn't take massive amounts of debt, and is for those who like the challenge of using their brain and their body. The best feeling is fulfillment of creation. I made a house today. I keep the oilfield running. I built something.
I’m in school for hvac (heating and air) and no you don’t have to be very smart. You just need to know how to trouble shoot and apply the skills that you’ve been taught. All the book work really doesn’t help all that much in the field
Serious question. Is he conservative? How does he feel about my first and second amendment Rights? How does he feel about murdering babies? What are his views on taxes and big federal government? There are a few red lines he can't cross before I'll consider voting for him. However he is doing good work with jobs and training people. And I've seen first hand what he's talking about so I know he's well versed in the education, training and employment issues. But other than that I don't know much else about him. If you could give me a link to a video of him talking about these issues or does anyone know if he's conservative? Because for all I know he could be a leftist who happens to be well educated on the employment problem. I just need to know because it is tempting to say I'd vote for him but then there's the red lines of my personal moral compass. Help? Lol
Although I admire the sentiment, i feel this is just another example of demagoguing. Mike is doing a great thing with his organization and the words that he shares, that in and of itself does not mean he should be president. If you truly adore the example he is setting you would be asking what you could do to compliment it. Asking him to take on a larger roll in fixing the ills of the world because he has had some success in fixing the ills he has taken on under his own volition is a little entitled if you ask me. We all have a duty to improve the world we have been blessed with. Mike Rowe is certainly doing his part. If you have kids that gives you a really good starting point, otherwise take a look around. Before you complain, explain. Explain why you, personally, cant do anything to change it. If cant come up with that explanation, then you you have some work to do.
The jobs that physically build and maintain our way of life should have more respect. I work with my hands and get to work outside. I could not imagine being bored to death, working in a cubical pushing a pencil all day. What a boring life.
The guy I did my time under went to Eton and he said 20 years ago that there will come a day when tradesmen will make as much as doctors , which happens here in Australia nowadays
Trade or vocational schools are one the greatest institutions ever created. Sadly, many school systems have eliminated these schools from the curriculum. The manufacturing base is what propelled this country to economic dominance in the 19th and early to middle 20th centuries. Blue collar workers are the backbone in which this country was built. We are bleeding jobs to countries like China and India. And with that goes quality of life. We must get that back. Business schools teach that the most prosperous companies are ones that are diverse. We must apply that to ourselves. Learn a skill or trade. My father always preached that if I learned a trade, I would always have something to fall back on. He was right.
I have a useless 4 year degree. I got a few certifications that took me ~9 months to earn them all. The degree has been literally worthless; can't get a job with it at all. The certs? Total cost $1200 and my current salary is $90k/yr.
Government says skilled worker is need...my question is ,for how long.a few months at a time does not cut it.That is the problem.I am a trades person but gave it up.All trades are not treated the same like electricians vs welder fabricators. Electricians have it gravy getting their red seal while welders can't keep their jobs long enough to qualify and no sponsors
I believe our biggest problem is in the cost, time, and energy for the training of a student in a new skill. Our education system is excessively expensive and cumbersome and is destroying loyalty in it through the inhibition of motivation due to the expense and ridiculous difficulty.
College was the worst move I ever made! Electronics engineers are unneeded in a market of throw away devices. It costs more to have me fix your busted phone screen than it does just to buy a new phone!!
When I got into Houston in 1979 there were more jobs than skilled labor. It was before the dot.com era and the millennial generation doesn't know how to relate to what the babyboomers saw back then...The movie "Urban cowboy" gave you a little glimpse into it...No it wasn't all about Gilles.. You would go down 1-10 which was under expansion then just outside of Baytown and you would see portable sign trailers with jobs being advertised on them. Need welders, need fitters, need riggers, need crane operators, need x-ray technicians, need general laborers, pipe fitter helpers, welder helpers, tool room assistant, and on and on. The trailer signs were all over Houston. I went to work as a welder for Brown and Root marine. The pay was good and first class welders had an incentive bonus of 10% of their gross pay. The average work week in the offshore drilling platform and drilling jacket fabrication yard was 84 hours a week (40 hours straight time and 44 hours overtime.) The city couldn't get enough skilled labor. We had young people back then from all over the nation and all over the world. It was skilled labor paradise - absolutely unbelieveable. If you couldn't weld pipe, then Brown and Root marine would hire you as a pipe welder's helper and you learned how to weld pipe. San Jacinto college both north and south campus welding school was going 5 days a week and they couldn't keep up with the demand. But I can tell you when Regan got into office it's like the light got shut off. The "BUST" came and you had all this skilled labor with no where to go. Some got out of the trades and learned another job skill. The steel industry was almost non- existant. I was there Mike and went through it. Houston had to catch up with the dot.com world. Bank closures, Home foreclosures were very high in Houston, people were leaving their homes in middle of night. Remember it well Mike. ****Are you hearing me Mike????**** With the oil and gas industry the reason why you can't get enough help is due to the ****up and downs of the oil prices****. One minute your working the next minute your not. Hope Trump puts the screws to the Saudis who have been screwing us. You want to make 20 and 30 service jobs (like it was back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's) , just drop that corporate interest rate down to 12.5% or less ( which I think Trump will do if relected - He's a businessman and not a "f*&*king career Politician in bed with the world and looking after his or her own ass) and you will see an economy that will have """""LONG TERM"""" positions or ***NESTED*** positions for contractors. Tell the dems and rinos to get out of bed with China and Europe businesses. Trump said there is a swap, yes and it's more than a swap, it looks more like an abyss from Hell in our nations capital. Thankyou Trump for getting "excessive government regulations" out of the industry !!!!!
IF AN APPLICANT HAS NOT PASSED ALGEBRA 2 - AND BASIC DRAFTING THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRADES !! THESE ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ! THIS IS WAY BEFORE SETTING FOOT INTO A SHOP ! SELF STUDY OR REGULAR SCHOOL CLASSES !
I am a 61-year-old female. I am in college loan debt. There is no retirement on the horizon for me. I have been in the education field for 30 years. I did not start teaching high school until 14 years ago. If I were to retire in the next couple of years, my retirement check would be $1000 per month. Enough to pay my mortgage and car loan. So I would still need a job to pay regular living expenses, medical, etc. I tell my students to be able to do more than one thing (even two or three. Always have something to fall back on. I wish I had another skillset or two. I admire plumbers, electricians, custodians, welders, etc. Without them and more, we would not have anything in America. While many take it for granted and look down on trade positions, they would not have anything at all. We need blue collar workers. Where did that term arise "Blue Collar?
Every parent thinks if their kid is not destined for middle management on their way to upper management, they're a loser. Truck drivers can make great money. Tough life though.
@@abcdef-kx2qt I believe there's truth in what you write, however, I also believe the times they are a changing. As college costs continue to spiral out of control smart people will begin looking towards skills as a way to get started in life. Helicopter pilot can routinely make 6 figures with only a few year's experience and there are many possibilities to move into management at a young age. Director of Safety, Director of Training, Chief Pilot or even Director of Operations positions are pretty readily available. Computer maintenance and repair, diesel or aircraft mechinac, electrician, plumber, roofer, carpenter, tax preparer, etc allow one to start quickly and "earn while you learn" without incurring tens of thousands in loans. Once you have a few year's experience, a few tools, couple of programs and are willing to put in the work with a little bit of discipline you're in business for yourself. "NO RESPECT FOR SKILL TRAINING?" Just wait until there's a stopped up drain or toilet and you pay a plumber $500 to come out for an hour on a Saturday to fix it.
I’ve always thought that the term “vocational arts” is poorly chosen. In fact, what is learned are skills. A learned skill is demonstrated by successfully accomplishing a task. Children learn a skill of tying their shoes. An adult demonstrates a skill set of flying an airplane . Etc. Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
In two weeks I’m starting my plumbers apprenticeship at the age of 31. After trying college 3 times and giving retail, banking, and call centers a try along with my mother saying to get a bachelors degree getting a ton of student loans. I said enough is enough, called a local plumber and he needed a apprentice. Met him fit the profile of wanting to learn and I have no experience. Should have done this earlier but better than never. I know I’m staring from the bottom but I want to work my way up. Tired of being hired at all these places and working for peanuts. Looking forward to my plumbing career.
Getting a degree isn't the problem. Its making good decisions in paying for it. I was 28 years old when I went back to school full time. I took advantage of free $ (grants) and worked while taking 12-14 units each semester. I took out a slim $5K loan and was making 65K at my first job out of school, which never would have happened if I had not had a degree. Smart debt is not bad.
my cs degree was about 2.2k a quarter for 6 quarters so 13.2k for tuition and fees total and i went to community college for my GE but i spent like 4 years there goofing around that was like up to $600 a semester so i think total ut could be 18ish K round it up to 20k, if you go to cc for 3 years and university for 2, for a degree in Computer science seems worth it
A CS degree can often be worth it. There are things I learned in my CS courses that aren't taught online. Albeit they're small things, but CS careers are in high demand.
Africans are bussed in to my area to work in the truck farming industry. Mexicans Indians also work here in this industry. I doubt if you could find many local people (especially kids) who would do the work.
How well do those jobs pay? How secure is that employment? Are labor standards and laws followed? I've worked on farms. It can be great work. It can also be dangerous, poorly paid, and tenuous employment.
I think folks forget when young that if you can get a job doing anything for a paycheque, you should try it...... you will learn a lot of diversity over a lifetime, butespecially wherever help is wanted, you can get paid, like filling the spike holes in a railroad dismantling operation for 15 cents per tie..... you know what, it was cash, was good for the body to do it, you gotfresh air, and saw the countryside.... was a nice job, and you got however much you could handle to do in a day.
Whats in demand changes with the tides, do what you love. You could invest 20 years into something, buy the tooling get the skills and the VERY minute that skill is NOT in demand your laid off ... the end. You better enjoy what you are investing your LIFE into.
This was wrong. I knew that I wasn't good working with my hands in junior high when they forced me to take wood shop and art class. I have gone to higher education, studied hard and made a great career. I never have to sweat at a manual labor job either. Not every one could work with their hands, nor did they wanted to.
MY HUSBAND IS AN ELECTRICIAN AND A BOAT MECHANIC! AS A ELECTRICIAN HE MADE $55.00 per hour. AND, A S A BOAT MECHANIC (MARINE ENGINES), HE MADE $65.00 per hour!! NOW, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL RETIREMENT AND OWE NO ONE! WHOEVER SAYS YOU HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE TO MAKE A GREAT LIVING...HAS LOST THEIR MINDS!!!! YES, YOU GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY......BUT, YOU CAN EASILY CLEAN THEM!!!! AND....NO STUDENT LOANS TO REPAY!!!!
Fact is there’s too many people competing for the same jobs cause there just isn’t enough to go around. Wages are a joke also. Companies don’t even train anymore. For me college wasnt worth it and I regret it every single day. I didn’t learn anything. Luckily I changed career and learned a skilled trade.
At 17 i started in the printing industry. It gave me a good living. 38 years. In 1976 i made $13.75 per hour. Just starting. That was good money. In the end i was over $75,000.00 per year. I worked my way up. Retired at 55. These kids today will not work. They want everything handed to them. I learned a trade. Raised a family. Did well.
My whole mindset changed about 15 years ago when I had a major house remodel. I wrote huge checks to the electricians, the plumbers, the contractors. I remember the old master electrician coming in with his crew. He parked himself in a recliner in my living room, and sat there drinking coffee and watching TV, frequently answering questions and guiding the work of his crew. After a couple of days, I wrote him a check for $4000. What I got for my money was an intricate and extensive new and retrofit wiring that has worked flawlessly ever since. Money well spent. From that point I actively advocated people going in for those jobs which have somehow been relegated to a lower category, as if they were demeaning. I thought, why are all these people going to college when you can spend your time apprenticing to a job with virtually guaranteed demand, and with the payoff in the end of sitting in a recliner, drinking coffee, watching TV, and pulling in $125K a year (I asked him, lol). I think the big difference is that earlier generations went into the workforce with the expectation of having to work hard, stick with it, and eventually become the man sitting in the recliner, whereas today's generation expects it with their first job.
Emmy Reacher I’m getting into the electrical field in the near future my goal is to get the Masters license and own my own company after many years in the field
1 Thessalonians 4:11 “...make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands...” Working with your hands demonstrates love for others because a self-supporting person is not a burden to others. This verse dignifies manual labor, and suggests that many in the early Christian church came out of the working class. The Greeks (elitists) at the time despised manual labor and relegated it to slaves as much as possible. But the Jews held it in high esteem; so much so that every Jewish boy was taught a trade regardless of his family’s wealth. And just as God gave Adam the gift of work as a gardener even before sin entered the world (Genesis 2:15), He has made it clear in the rest of Scripture that work is a blessing from Him, and working with your hands should never be despised by anyone, especially those who follow Christ. A man who is willing to work with his hands demonstrates his love for others by being willing to humble himself to provide for his own needs so that he does not depend on others. If a man can work and chooses not to work due to slothfulness, entitlement, or playing the victim, the Bible says he has no right to eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10), while Immature, basement dwelling adult male children are called “sluggards” in Scripture, and they always make ridiculous excuses for not going out of the house and want to stay safe and lazy at home by saying things like Proverbs 22:13 “There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!” Men, be men, learn a skill, follow Jesus Christ, and work with your hands.
People don't realize how much you can make in the skilled trades. Its going to take some time, 5 years minimum, but if your good 100k a year is definitely attainable. Just be prepared to work, it isn't a pussy office job.
It is in the Soft Skill set. If you get a job and don't have or develop soft skills, there is a great possiblity that you will not have the job very long.
I am a small business owner and cannot find anyone under age 45 who will do the work that I myself did when I started in 1991with full benefits high wages car insurance etc Now Elizabeth Warren wants taxpayers to pay the nearly 700 bill college debt for the socialist indoctrination of young people who get degrees that are useless I worked until 28 then started college with the money I save then started a business
So you get a hands on job and learn the skills to make money.( I DID) just that many years ago. I attended a four year apprenticeship and worked my butt off to learn and grow as much as possible. I have worked at good jobs since. BUT! What Mike Rowe isn't talking about is , ( The rest of the story, ) My entire career has been spent fighting to keep the pay and benefits my craft affords me. In fact every contract my fellow workers and I have gone backwards in pay and or benefits. Yes I am free to look for better paying work accept for the fact that most employers around the country will tell you the same. They all have the same reasoning. We have to compete with third world business so we can't and won't pay you a growing wage or better benefits. I believe them for the most part , however this explains why people aren't willing to stagnate and languish in a skilled trade. When America competes with third world countries either their standard of living must rise to ours or our standard of living must fall to match theirs. ( Guess which one is happening ! ) Thanks Mike for pointing to good work but read this post and ask the tough questions of the people that have been doing the skilled labor for a long time.
TheBenjamess Yes, there are jobs as you and mike have stated. Yes the issue what you brought up with pay and benefits. Thing is, you can take what you have learned and branch out into your own thing. Carpentry and construction for instance. Know how many people hire to do your own thing? Many in my area. Same as welding and so on. Your own buisness with what youve learned can prosper.
TheBenjamess Bingo. Why would an 18 year old learn to be a carpenter, electrician, or plumber when the starting wage are $12-13 an hour? When he can work at Walmart or Target for $11-12 an hour Why would he travel to new job sites every few weeks, when he could go to the same location all year? Why would he want to work all day in the blazing sun, when he can work all day in the air conditioning? Why would he lug around hundreds of pounds of equipment, when he can run a cash register?
LancGuy13 because if you stick with the 12-13 dollar job for 5 years and pay some damn attention you will be making 3x as much. If you stick with the minimum wage job for 5 years you will make maybe, MAYBE twice as much if you’re lucky without a degree that costs thousands of dollars
Ja B outside of unionized jobs, the most I've seen people make with 5 years experience is about $16-18 an hour. Throw in getting laid off every 6-12 months, and you're annual pay is in the 30-35k range
ALL JOBS INCLUDING SO-CALLED CARRIERS NEED TO GO BACK TO APPRENTICESHIPS AND ON THE JOB TRAINING (WOVEN INTO THE EDUCATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE MANY PEOPLE LARGELY ALREADY HAVE!) IN BEING TAUGHT THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ANY JOB, TRADE OR PROFESSION (THAT ACTUALLY EXISTS!) THAT IS NECESSARY TO WORK ANY JOB (PLAIN AND SIMPLE!) EXCEPT FOR VERY HIGHLY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR PROFESSIONS! WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE MASS HIGHER EDUCATION BARRIER TO ENTRY ALTOGETHER! (FOR JOBS THAT JUST DO NOT EXIST IN ANY REAL NUMBERS!) ALONG WITH THE BOGUS SO-CALLED CONTINUING EDUCATION BARRIER TO KEEP ONES JOB, THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE!
TO MANY PEOPLE JUST WANT TO EITHER START AT THE TOP OR JUST HIDE SOMEWHERE IN THE IN THE MIDDLE, GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS . . . AND MOST JOBS JUST DO NOT PAY ENOUGH FOR ALL THE WORK, TIME, EFFORT, ENERGY AND RESPONSIBILITY REQUIRED! (PLAIN AND SIMPLE!)
WORKING FOR ONESELF IS OFTEN TO MUCH WORK UNLESS YOU HIGHER REVOLVING DOOR HELP AND PAY THEM NEXT TO NOTHING! THE SYSTEM IS JUST NOT IN FAVOR OF THE WORKING MAN ANYMORE! (UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING OR DESPERATE ENOUGH TO DO THINGS THAT MOST PEOPLE JUST DO NOT WANT TO DO!) WORK ALTOGETHER IS SHAMELESSLY BASED UPON SHORT TERM GAIN, DOING EVERYTHING ON A SHOE STRING, WITH ENDLESS REVOLVING DOOR HELP AND HAS BEEN FOR FAR TO LONG!
WITH LITTLE OR NO REAL REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK! WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIG REASONS (AMONG OTHERS) WHY NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE! REVOLVING DOOR HELP IS NOT A JOB! JOBS AT ONE TIME WERE REWARDING AND PEOPLE COULD AFFORD TO NOT ONLY LIVE BUT HAVE A FAMILY!
SADLY THAT IS JUST NOT THE CASE ANYMORE! COMPANIES USED TO BE ABOUT PEOPLE, NOW IT IS JUST ALL ABOUT MONEY AND COMPETITION FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP TO MAKE AND HORDE ALL THE MONEY WITH SHORT TERM DISPOSABLE HELP BY DESIGN, SEEING ALL ELSE AS AN EXPENSE TO BE WHITTLED AWAY AT ALL COSTS! (A BUSINESS IS ONLY AS GOOD AS IT'S PEOPLE! TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS! HOWEVER THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE!)
BUSINESS HAS TO BECOME ABOUT PEOPLE AGAIN AND PROFITS BEYOND THAT SECOND! TO MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE ALL THERE MONEY WITH TO MUCH OF OTHER PEOPLES MONEY, IN AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF A HEAD, BEHIND AND RUN TO GET EVEN THAT NEVER ENDS!
A BUSINESS PAYS FOR ITSELF AND MAKES A PROFIT THAT MULTIPLIES AND INCREASES STEADILY! OTHERWISE IT IS NOT A BUSINESS, IT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A BUSINESS, PLAYING ALL ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE JUST WAITING TO SELF DESTRUCT!
TO MANY IGNORANTLY THINK THIS IS WHAT BUSINESS IS! A WORD TO THE WISE BUSINESS IS TO ALWAYS BE WIN/WIN! NEVER WIN/LOOSE! THOSE WHO VIOLATE THAT TRUTH WILL EVENTUALLY REAP WHAT THEY SOW EVERYTIME! SHORT TERM GAIN, IS NEVER WORTH LONG TERM PAIN, IN ANYTHING INCLUDING BUSINESS!
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Wallace Wimmer Mike Rowe should be Trumps spokesperson/JOBS ZAR the largest industries oil & gas. Construction are SCREAMING for women & men that have developmental skills. I'm 53 make low 6 figures every year with excellent benefits and only brought the right "ATTITUDE" and (2) hard working hands to the job site. Ole dogs can learn new tricks. Sweat drips off my chin but stackin cake 👍💰🎉
If the kids went to vocational schools the cost would be cheeper. But then you would get paid better when you graduated. And there are a lot of jobs available .
I was an Industrial Machine Mechanic (recent retired) for a fortune 500 company (I can honestly say that after 40+ years in various companies I have had less than a twenty times where I was late for work, barring real emergencies), each huge retail outlet had One main manager and 3-4 Asst. managers, the skills I had were in demand enough that I often had a higher wage than most the Asst. managers. Also when I started all the clerks had to wear white shirts, black pants, etc. with a well groomed look, when I finally retired, the company was just happy if they showed up for work, not just on time but actually there and these were higher than average paying jobs that were relatively not too complicated or hard. America, many of our kids are spoiled brats and it is our fault for letting it happen. I wouldn't call my millennial son spoiled but he is lazy and nonchalant about any kind of work and it's not because I haven't tried to set a good example with expectations, a constant labor just keeping him focused on his current job with a nice, successful company with benefits, everyone of his peers is the exact same way and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it cause I've "Literally" tried almost everything, except throwing him out of our lives, which my wife will not do nor do I want to happen. Obviously I have failed miserably somewhere.
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Mike is correct .welders electrician's carpenters mechanic's are good paying jobs .and you can get a job every where in the world .I've been there I know .
I'm 60 years old I've been working in the house trades for pretty much all of my life I've had other jobs that weren't satisfying buy love to build I love to remodel taking things that are not right and making them right it seems that the young people today don't want to have anything to do with this it's disheartening do not have somebody to train we get people to come and try to do it but they're in their 30s they're not really young they don't really want to do what you're doing it would be nice if young people would come to the point where they want to learn how to do things with their hands and make things nice sorry for the rambling but have much to say
Learn a valuable trade and be punctual, motivated, flexible, hard-working, and in possession of a positive attitude at all times. Mystery of life over!
Maybe we need to start talking about wadges and you will find out that most of the jobs in trades pay better than most of the jobs young kids take right out of college.
Its worth it because, while your working at the bottom, when the time comes and an opportunity to move up in company arrives,you'll have that degree in your back pocket😎
My father, an old-school Chief Electrical Engineer for Bechtel Corp, specializing in nuclear plant startups, advised me prior to attending college to avoid classes like women studies, art, litature, politics and focus on science and engineering. He said the aforementioned degrees were "degrees in advanced basket weaving", for all the good they did towards achieving a good paying job after graduation.... just sayin, my dad was right :)
Alrighty then...... First , lets consider that the issues surrounding the difficult circumstances for each of the identified parties, generations and those would were assumed to facilitate the preparation to move forward in life successfully have become more complex on many levels and with the shear velocity of all that demands attention these days ,, the potential for any depth of consideration has fallen short on just about any account of the situation that effects a great deal more than education. The reality is that the issues surrounding this and so many other areas, peoples and the assumptions that so many seem to fall back to are clearly not serving anything. We, collectively , really would benefit from taking a good look at ourselves and all that we profess to be human, American, mature and well considered...... then begin to speak again to one another with some of the respect and consideration that is so clearly demanded by each and every one one those who wrote comments to this video as well as those who have been involved in any part of its production. Its way beyond the time in which these discussion would ideally have taken place. Unfortunately after so much time has past we’re now meiered with the reactions to it all which start to look an awful lot like the desperate grabbing for survival, power and still with the values of uncontrolled greed......... is this who we Really Are?
Maybe if these 'high pay/high demand jobs'' weren't in backwater dumps of towns in rural America that no self-respecting Americal with an education would ever dream of moving too the jobs would be more desirable? Maybe if those jobs didn't require one to move so much or had a more stable job outlook? Sorry but $45kk a year doesn't mean shit if you're only working somewhere for a few months before work runs dry...or even worse if your job was located somewhere with no civilization, no prospects, no proximity to anyone who will support you in the event things don't work? Hmmm do I wanna move 2,000 miles across the country and chance being completely screwed over with no one to help me nearby? Naaaah I'll take the route that DOESN'T result in me possibly ruining my life or losing life and limb for a few bucks. There is a reason people don't chase these jobs...THEY'RE NOT DESIRABLE!!!! Not to mention employers are so damned picky. There are MILLIONS of us begging to go to work. They just don't wanna hire us.
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I'm a High School Graduate and did 10 years in the Air Force. Now I'm an Aircraft Mechanic making over a 100k a year.
I served in the airforce as well. I am not making 100K, but I have a decent job and a home all paid off. All because of what I learned from the airforce.
Aaron Dashiell kudos to you 😁😁
Right on my man!
its depends on where you live but yes, ame can make 100,000 a year. im planning to pursue this career and i did some research. with enogh experience and in a location for demand it is possible. like in canada (where im from) there is a HUGE shortage of them
7 years in the Army here. Flew helicopters around the world for 38 years retiring 5 years ago to Europe. Made $100K each of my last 20 work years. Mostly just ride a Harley around Europe now.
I decided to start looking for a job as an apprentice carpenter. My mom basically said that kind of work is for losers and its beneath me. But the truth is, we're beneath a roof right now. And that's because of workers.
Austin Whitley and people will always need houses.
When will that cultural attitude trend change…. it's been going on for about six decades.
Bon Summers because after ww2, we were established as an industrial powerhouse, but most of the world still thought we were uneducated. The government then put the highest priority on becoming the smartest country in the world, which we were for a while, cementing the value of education over a hard day's work. Since then most kids have been brought up thinking college is necessary for success, and a job you didn't need college for is for poor people who couldn't afford an education. Once the aging population of tradesmen diminish and our aging infrastructure starts crumbling, the young people smart enough to realize the demand of skilled workers will make six figure salaries, earning every cent.
Ask what life would be like without these tradesmen/dirty job workers? Carpenters are losers? imagine a world with no wood workers, garbage men are losers, imagine a world without garbage men ect. Same thing can be said for basically every trade. People usually have a hard time not appreciating what they do when they really think about it.
carpenters are paid well , higher then some jobs that require a college degree
Used to be called common sense. Stay out of debt. Debt for diploma is a total scam.
ya but the people in power worship mamon and usury and want everyone to be a debt slave, i stay away from debt, im good at school but dont know what to do, ive made minimum wage my whole life work multiple jobs, life is jsut 1 big debt slave joke, honestly and people keep breeding with used pussy whores to make more debt slaves, soon america will go bankrupt and the pedophile bankers that did this will move on to another country and do the same thing, nothing new under the sun, its all 1 big scam
Buddy Dyer lol it's not debt for diploma that implies a fair trade. Its debt for the possibility of a diploma which they can take from you at any point. I know someone denied a P.H.D. because he was a white man talking about slavery.
My father and his brothers were trade school trained mechanics. I was taught to turn wrenches from the time I could hold tools. I went to vocational school and learned paint and body/ collision repair. That skill set enabled me to go to work in the automotive manufacturing industry. Having a great job with benefits enabled me, later on, to go to college and get my degree in engineering. With my degree, I was able go into the engineering side of automotive manufacturing. Better position, better pay. With that, I was able to put all of my kids through college without them having to be weighted down with thousands of dollars in student loans to repay. Now they all have good jobs and wonderful children of their own. All of this started with a blue collar trade learned while still in high school.
Actually some of the skilled trades especially heating and cooling, you need to be really smart in many areas such as physics, science, and chemistry, electricity and so on. So not only are you doing physical labor, youre really using your brain.
This is applicable for most trades, actually. Yeah running a shovel maybe not, but carpentry requires excellent math, geometry, physics when we get into structure, etc. Plumbers have to know what potentially causes failures to prevent flooding. Chemical exposure, pressure, etc. Electricians have to know amperage of loads in houses and how to minimize risks of shock, keep the house from burning down. Mechanics have to know physics to a fault to diagnose failures and figure out best methods of repair or replacement. Math, chemistry, physics, geometry, technology, all of it plays into the needs of a tradesman. Regardless of what trade it is, you gotta be intelligent. You have to understand the concept of what your given object of trade is exposed to and how to keep it going. They're physically taxing and mentally challenging and few people outside of the trades ever think of them that way. It's quite a shame that it's labeled sub par but can make you over 100,000 a year, doesn't take massive amounts of debt, and is for those who like the challenge of using their brain and their body.
The best feeling is fulfillment of creation.
I made a house today.
I keep the oilfield running.
I built something.
Many people are predisposed with these skills..."-inclined".
Such as my oldest son and middle daughter, naturally inclined.
Yes, Algebra is much needed in many occupations.
I’m in school for hvac (heating and air) and no you don’t have to be very smart. You just need to know how to trouble shoot and apply the skills that you’ve been taught. All the book work really doesn’t help all that much in the field
@@jodystrickland9150 > pressure vs enthalpy diagram ???
Mike Rowe for president in 2024!
good idea!
Serious question. Is he conservative? How does he feel about my first and second amendment Rights? How does he feel about murdering babies? What are his views on taxes and big federal government? There are a few red lines he can't cross before I'll consider voting for him. However he is doing good work with jobs and training people. And I've seen first hand what he's talking about so I know he's well versed in the education, training and employment issues. But other than that I don't know much else about him. If you could give me a link to a video of him talking about these issues or does anyone know if he's conservative? Because for all I know he could be a leftist who happens to be well educated on the employment problem. I just need to know because it is tempting to say I'd vote for him but then there's the red lines of my personal moral compass. Help? Lol
Although I admire the sentiment, i feel this is just another example of demagoguing. Mike is doing a great thing with his organization and the words that he shares, that in and of itself does not mean he should be president. If you truly adore the example he is setting you would be asking what you could do to compliment it. Asking him to take on a larger roll in fixing the ills of the world because he has had some success in fixing the ills he has taken on under his own volition is a little entitled if you ask me. We all have a duty to improve the world we have been blessed with. Mike Rowe is certainly doing his part. If you have kids that gives you a really good starting point, otherwise take a look around. Before you complain, explain. Explain why you, personally, cant do anything to change it. If cant come up with that explanation, then you you have some work to do.
I do NOT want to see Mike run for President. I like him too much! I would love to see him as a top advisor to the President, however.
The jobs that physically build and maintain our way of life should have more respect. I work with my hands and get to work outside. I could not imagine being bored to death, working in a cubical pushing a pencil all day. What a boring life.
Yes you are a Wonderful and Smart person.God bless you and I love you so much
The guy I did my time under went to Eton and he said 20 years ago that there will come a day when tradesmen will make as much as doctors , which happens here in Australia nowadays
I've just realized that I like Mike Rowe. Good Vids!
College is worth it if you have a plan.
Trade or vocational schools are one the greatest institutions ever created. Sadly, many school systems have eliminated these schools from the curriculum. The manufacturing base is what propelled this country to economic dominance in the 19th and early to middle 20th centuries. Blue collar workers are the backbone in which this country was built. We are bleeding jobs to countries like China and India. And with that goes quality of life. We must get that back. Business schools teach that the most prosperous companies are ones that are diverse. We must apply that to ourselves. Learn a skill or trade. My father always preached that if I learned a trade, I would always have something to fall back on. He was right.
I have a useless 4 year degree. I got a few certifications that took me ~9 months to earn them all. The degree has been literally worthless; can't get a job with it at all. The certs? Total cost $1200 and my current salary is $90k/yr.
What field?
Government says skilled worker is need...my question is ,for how long.a few months at a time does not cut it.That is the problem.I am a trades person but gave it up.All trades are not treated the same like electricians vs welder fabricators. Electricians have it gravy getting their red seal while welders can't keep their jobs long enough to qualify and no sponsors
we should sue the colleges and not pay back a dime
LaVar Ball, We should sue the Colleges and not have to pay for the costs.
This is how it should have been written LaVar Ball.
Working with your hands, and maybe outside, can get you great money
Matt Shaw yea 100k plus a year
Matt Shaw Working construction
After college, I'm selling out and becoming a lobbyist. Fuck hard labor. Can't wait to cut workers pension and healthcare. SS too. Let do it Trump!
Part of getting rid of that stigma is tackling that early. Like FIRST Robotics, an organization doing things like FRC.
I believe our biggest problem is in the cost, time, and energy for the training of a student in a new skill. Our education system is excessively expensive and cumbersome and is destroying loyalty in it through the inhibition of motivation due to the expense and ridiculous difficulty.
Thanks Thelondonbadger. Good Info!
Mike Rowe is a cool dude but I enjoy excavating work and construction you meet cool people thanks
College was the worst move I ever made!
Electronics engineers are unneeded in a market of throw away devices. It costs more to have me fix your busted phone screen than it does just to buy a new phone!!
electronics engineers are un needed? Who do you think designs those phones? Do you mean electronics technicians?
When I got into Houston in 1979 there were more jobs than skilled labor. It was before the dot.com era and the millennial generation doesn't know how to relate to what the babyboomers saw back then...The movie "Urban cowboy" gave you a little glimpse into it...No it wasn't all about Gilles.. You would go down 1-10 which was under expansion then just outside of Baytown and you would see portable sign trailers with jobs being advertised on them. Need welders, need fitters, need riggers, need crane operators, need x-ray technicians, need general laborers, pipe fitter helpers, welder helpers, tool room assistant, and on and on. The trailer signs were all over Houston. I went to work as a welder for Brown and Root marine. The pay was good and first class welders had an incentive bonus of 10% of their gross pay. The average work week in the offshore drilling platform and drilling jacket fabrication yard was 84 hours a week (40 hours straight time and 44 hours overtime.) The city couldn't get enough skilled labor. We had young people back then from all over the nation and all over the world. It was skilled labor paradise - absolutely unbelieveable. If you couldn't weld pipe, then Brown and Root marine would hire you as a pipe welder's helper and you learned how to weld pipe. San Jacinto college both north and south campus welding school was going 5 days a week and they couldn't keep up with the demand. But I can tell you when Regan got into office it's like the light got shut off. The "BUST" came and you had all this skilled labor with no where to go. Some got out of the trades and learned another job skill. The steel industry was almost non- existant. I was there Mike and went through it. Houston had to catch up with the dot.com world. Bank closures, Home foreclosures were very high in Houston, people were leaving their homes in middle of night. Remember it well Mike. ****Are you hearing me Mike????**** With the oil and gas industry the reason why you can't get enough help is due to the ****up and downs of the oil prices****. One minute your working the next minute your not. Hope Trump puts the screws to the Saudis who have been screwing us. You want to make 20 and 30 service jobs (like it was back in the 50's, 60's, and 70's) , just drop that corporate interest rate down to 12.5% or less ( which I think Trump will do if relected - He's a businessman and not a "f*&*king career Politician in bed with the world and looking after his or her own ass) and you will see an economy that will have """""LONG TERM"""" positions or ***NESTED*** positions for contractors. Tell the dems and rinos to get out of bed with China and Europe businesses. Trump said there is a swap, yes and it's more than a swap, it looks more like an abyss from Hell in our nations capital. Thankyou Trump for getting "excessive government regulations" out of the industry !!!!!
VERY WELL SAID !!!
but too many hat backward fools don`t poo from good !!
IF AN APPLICANT HAS NOT PASSED ALGEBRA 2 - AND BASIC DRAFTING THEY ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE TO THE TRADES !!
THESE ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS !
THIS IS WAY BEFORE SETTING FOOT INTO A SHOP !
SELF STUDY OR REGULAR SCHOOL CLASSES !
Mike Rowe is great
The short answer: NO
I am a 61-year-old female. I am in college loan debt. There is no retirement on the horizon for me. I have been in the education field for 30 years. I did not start teaching high school until 14 years ago. If I were to retire in the next couple of years, my retirement check would be $1000 per month. Enough to pay my mortgage and car loan. So I would still need a job to pay regular living expenses, medical, etc. I tell my students to be able to do more than one thing (even two or three. Always have something to fall back on. I wish I had another skillset or two. I admire plumbers, electricians, custodians, welders, etc. Without them and more, we would not have anything in America. While many take it for granted and look down on trade positions, they would not have anything at all. We need blue collar workers. Where did that term arise "Blue Collar?
a problem that happens is these companies for the longest time paid not well at all,
It depends on the major. Most STEM and nursing and accounting yes. Business Administration, Marketing, GENDER STUDIES. LOL
Every parent thinks if their kid is not destined for middle management on their way to upper management, they're a loser. Truck drivers can make great money. Tough life though.
I took a look at the pledge and I honestly can't sign it because one of the tenants is that I do not accept debt and I have accepted debt in the past.
People wanted to go to trade schools--they were always told they had to have 5 years experience to get a job---nobody wants to talk about that!!!
Sign on for an apprenticeship. Boom.
Or join the military and get a good salary, learn a skill/trade and get out with years of experience.
@@snakechrmr6398 > NO REAL RESPECT NOR SKILL TRAINING'S !!!!
@@abcdef-kx2qt I believe there's truth in what you write, however, I also believe the times they are a changing. As college costs continue to spiral out of control smart people will begin looking towards skills as a way to get started in life. Helicopter pilot can routinely make 6 figures with only a few year's experience and there are many possibilities to move into management at a young age. Director of Safety, Director of Training, Chief Pilot or even Director of Operations positions are pretty readily available.
Computer maintenance and repair, diesel or aircraft mechinac, electrician, plumber, roofer, carpenter, tax preparer, etc allow one to start quickly and "earn while you learn" without incurring tens of thousands in loans. Once you have a few year's experience, a few tools, couple of programs and are willing to put in the work with a little bit of discipline you're in business for yourself.
"NO RESPECT FOR SKILL TRAINING?" Just wait until there's a stopped up drain or toilet and you pay a plumber $500 to come out for an hour on a Saturday to fix it.
You know ty Mike. So true so true.
Mike for president!
I’ve always thought that the term “vocational arts” is poorly chosen. In fact, what is learned are skills. A learned skill is demonstrated by successfully accomplishing a task. Children learn a skill of tying their shoes. An adult demonstrates a skill set of flying an airplane . Etc.
Courtesy of Half Vast Flying
In two weeks I’m starting my plumbers apprenticeship at the age of 31. After trying college 3 times and giving retail, banking, and call centers a try along with my mother saying to get a bachelors degree getting a ton of student loans.
I said enough is enough, called a local plumber and he needed a apprentice. Met him fit the profile of wanting to learn and I have no experience.
Should have done this earlier but better than never. I know I’m staring from the bottom but I want to work my way up. Tired of being hired at all these places and working for peanuts. Looking forward to my plumbing career.
Getting a degree isn't the problem. Its making good decisions in paying for it. I was 28 years old when I went back to school full time. I took advantage of free $ (grants) and worked while taking 12-14 units each semester. I took out a slim $5K loan and was making 65K at my first job out of school, which never would have happened if I had not had a degree. Smart debt is not bad.
my cs degree was about 2.2k a quarter for 6 quarters so 13.2k for tuition and fees total and i went to community college for my GE but i spent like 4 years there goofing around that was like up to $600 a semester so i think total ut could be 18ish K round it up to 20k, if you go to cc for 3 years and university for 2, for a degree in Computer science seems worth it
A CS degree can often be worth it. There are things I learned in my CS courses that aren't taught online. Albeit they're small things, but CS careers are in high demand.
Africans are bussed in to my area to work in the truck farming industry. Mexicans Indians also work here in this industry. I doubt if you could find many local people (especially kids) who would do the work.
How well do those jobs pay? How secure is that employment? Are labor standards and laws followed? I've worked on farms. It can be great work. It can also be dangerous, poorly paid, and tenuous employment.
I think folks forget when young that if you can get a job doing anything for a paycheque, you should try it...... you will learn a lot of diversity over a lifetime, butespecially wherever help is wanted, you can get paid, like filling the spike holes in a railroad dismantling operation for 15 cents per tie..... you know what, it was cash, was good for the body to do it, you gotfresh air, and saw the countryside.... was a nice job, and you got however much you could handle to do in a day.
Whats in demand changes with the tides, do what you love. You could invest 20 years into something, buy the tooling get the skills and the VERY minute that skill is NOT in demand your laid off ... the end. You better enjoy what you are investing your LIFE into.
28+ Years In HVAC. Now Commercial Maintenance. Work With My Hands and Brain Every Day !
This was wrong. I knew that I wasn't good working with my hands in junior high when they forced me to take wood shop and art class. I have gone to higher education, studied hard and made a great career. I never have to sweat at a manual labor job either.
Not every one could work with their hands, nor did they wanted to.
College isn't worth the cost of tuition.
Mike himself got good value for his own college education, at Towson U.
Get the hands dirty. Simple. Be good. JB Good. Is rocking. :-)
MY HUSBAND IS AN ELECTRICIAN AND A BOAT MECHANIC! AS A ELECTRICIAN HE MADE $55.00 per hour. AND, A S A BOAT MECHANIC (MARINE ENGINES), HE MADE $65.00 per hour!! NOW, WE HAVE A WONDERFUL RETIREMENT AND OWE NO ONE! WHOEVER SAYS YOU HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE TO MAKE A GREAT LIVING...HAS LOST THEIR MINDS!!!! YES, YOU GET YOUR HANDS DIRTY......BUT, YOU CAN EASILY CLEAN THEM!!!! AND....NO STUDENT LOANS TO REPAY!!!!
Fact is there’s too many people competing for the same jobs cause there just isn’t enough to go around. Wages are a joke also. Companies don’t even train anymore. For me college wasnt worth it and I regret it every single day. I didn’t learn anything. Luckily I changed career and learned a skilled trade.
2 true !
At 17 i started in the printing industry. It gave me a good living. 38 years. In 1976 i made $13.75 per hour. Just starting. That was good money. In the end i was over $75,000.00 per year. I worked my way up. Retired at 55. These kids today will not work. They want everything handed to them. I learned a trade. Raised a family. Did well.
not today liar !!!!
My whole mindset changed about 15 years ago when I had a major house remodel. I wrote huge checks to the electricians, the plumbers, the contractors. I remember the old master electrician coming in with his crew. He parked himself in a recliner in my living room, and sat there drinking coffee and watching TV, frequently answering questions and guiding the work of his crew.
After a couple of days, I wrote him a check for $4000. What I got for my money was an intricate and extensive new and retrofit wiring that has worked flawlessly ever since. Money well spent. From that point I actively advocated people going in for those jobs which have somehow been relegated to a lower category, as if they were demeaning. I thought, why are all these people going to college when you can spend your time apprenticing to a job with virtually guaranteed demand, and with the payoff in the end of sitting in a recliner, drinking coffee, watching TV, and pulling in $125K a year (I asked him, lol).
I think the big difference is that earlier generations went into the workforce with the expectation of having to work hard, stick with it, and eventually become the man sitting in the recliner, whereas today's generation expects it with their first job.
Emmy Reacher I’m getting into the electrical field in the near future my goal is to get the Masters license and own my own company after many years in the field
1 Thessalonians 4:11 “...make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands...”
Working with your hands demonstrates love for others because a self-supporting person is not a burden to others. This verse dignifies manual labor, and suggests that many in the early Christian church came out of the working class. The Greeks (elitists) at the time despised manual labor and relegated it to slaves as much as possible. But the Jews held it in high esteem; so much so that every Jewish boy was taught a trade regardless of his family’s wealth. And just as God gave Adam the gift of work as a gardener even before sin entered the world (Genesis 2:15), He has made it clear in the rest of Scripture that work is a blessing from Him, and working with your hands should never be despised by anyone, especially those who follow Christ. A man who is willing to work with his hands demonstrates his love for others by being willing to humble himself to provide for his own needs so that he does not depend on others.
If a man can work and chooses not to work due to slothfulness, entitlement, or playing the victim, the Bible says he has no right to eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10), while Immature, basement dwelling adult male children are called “sluggards” in Scripture, and they always make ridiculous excuses for not going out of the house and want to stay safe and lazy at home by saying things like Proverbs 22:13 “There is a lion outside; I will be killed in the streets!” Men, be men, learn a skill, follow Jesus Christ, and work with your hands.
People don't realize how much you can make in the skilled trades. Its going to take some time, 5 years minimum, but if your good 100k a year is definitely attainable. Just be prepared to work, it isn't a pussy office job.
punctuality is not a skill set.....maga
It is in the Soft Skill set. If you get a job and don't have or develop soft skills, there is a great possiblity that you will not have the job very long.
I am a small business owner and cannot find anyone under age 45 who will do the work that I myself did when I started in 1991with full benefits high wages car insurance etc
Now Elizabeth Warren wants taxpayers to pay the nearly 700 bill college debt for the socialist indoctrination of young people who get degrees that are useless
I worked until 28 then started college with the money I save then started a business
I guess I could always get a job selling Kat Stacks and all the lamps on QVC.😳
🇨🇦 skilled artisan craft technology instructors needed? Maybe...
Mike Rowe is a very wise man.
LIAR FULL ON !!!
So you get a hands on job and learn the skills to make money.( I DID) just that many years ago. I attended a four year apprenticeship and worked my butt off to learn and grow as much as possible. I have worked at good jobs since. BUT! What Mike Rowe isn't talking about is , ( The rest of the story, ) My entire career has been spent fighting to keep the pay and benefits my craft affords me. In fact every contract my fellow workers and I have gone backwards in pay and or benefits. Yes I am free to look for better paying work accept for the fact that most employers around the country will tell you the same. They all have the same reasoning. We have to compete with third world business so we can't and won't pay you a growing wage or better benefits. I believe them for the most part , however this explains why people aren't willing to stagnate and languish in a skilled trade. When America competes with third world countries either their standard of living must rise to ours or our standard of living must fall to match theirs. ( Guess which one is happening ! ) Thanks Mike for pointing to good work but read this post and ask the tough questions of the people that have been doing the skilled labor for a long time.
TheBenjamess Yes, there are jobs as you and mike have stated. Yes the issue what you brought up with pay and benefits. Thing is, you can take what you have learned and branch out into your own thing. Carpentry and construction for instance. Know how many people hire to do your own thing? Many in my area. Same as welding and so on. Your own buisness with what youve learned can prosper.
TheBenjamess Bingo.
Why would an 18 year old learn to be a carpenter, electrician, or plumber when the starting wage are $12-13 an hour? When he can work at Walmart or Target for $11-12 an hour
Why would he travel to new job sites every few weeks, when he could go to the same location all year?
Why would he want to work all day in the blazing sun, when he can work all day in the air conditioning?
Why would he lug around hundreds of pounds of equipment, when he can run a cash register?
LancGuy13 You're over-generalizing in an attempt to make a point.
LancGuy13 because if you stick with the 12-13 dollar job for 5 years and pay some damn attention you will be making 3x as much. If you stick with the minimum wage job for 5 years you will make maybe, MAYBE twice as much if you’re lucky without a degree that costs thousands of dollars
Ja B outside of unionized jobs, the most I've seen people make with 5 years experience is about $16-18 an hour. Throw in getting laid off every 6-12 months, and you're annual pay is in the 30-35k range
I sure am glad that my heart surgeon thought it was.
ALL JOBS INCLUDING SO-CALLED CARRIERS NEED TO GO BACK TO APPRENTICESHIPS AND ON THE JOB TRAINING (WOVEN INTO THE EDUCATION AND LIFE EXPERIENCE MANY PEOPLE LARGELY ALREADY HAVE!) IN BEING TAUGHT THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF ANY JOB, TRADE OR PROFESSION (THAT ACTUALLY EXISTS!) THAT IS NECESSARY TO WORK ANY JOB (PLAIN AND SIMPLE!) EXCEPT FOR VERY HIGHLY TECHNICAL SKILLS OR PROFESSIONS!
WE NEED TO GET RID OF THE MASS HIGHER EDUCATION BARRIER TO ENTRY ALTOGETHER! (FOR JOBS THAT JUST DO NOT EXIST IN ANY REAL NUMBERS!) ALONG WITH THE BOGUS SO-CALLED CONTINUING EDUCATION BARRIER TO KEEP ONES JOB, THAT THEY ALREADY HAVE!
TO MANY PEOPLE JUST WANT TO EITHER START AT THE TOP OR JUST HIDE SOMEWHERE IN THE IN THE MIDDLE, GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS . . . AND MOST JOBS JUST DO NOT PAY ENOUGH FOR ALL THE WORK, TIME, EFFORT, ENERGY AND RESPONSIBILITY REQUIRED! (PLAIN AND SIMPLE!)
WORKING FOR ONESELF IS OFTEN TO MUCH WORK UNLESS YOU HIGHER REVOLVING DOOR HELP AND PAY THEM NEXT TO NOTHING! THE SYSTEM IS JUST NOT IN FAVOR OF THE WORKING MAN ANYMORE! (UNLESS YOU ARE WILLING OR DESPERATE ENOUGH TO DO THINGS THAT MOST PEOPLE JUST DO NOT WANT TO DO!) WORK ALTOGETHER IS SHAMELESSLY BASED UPON SHORT TERM GAIN, DOING EVERYTHING ON A SHOE STRING, WITH ENDLESS REVOLVING DOOR HELP AND HAS BEEN FOR FAR TO LONG!
WITH LITTLE OR NO REAL REWARD FOR THOSE WHO ARE ACTUALLY DOING THE WORK! WHICH IS ONE OF THE BIG REASONS (AMONG OTHERS) WHY NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE! REVOLVING DOOR HELP IS NOT A JOB! JOBS AT ONE TIME WERE REWARDING AND PEOPLE COULD AFFORD TO NOT ONLY LIVE BUT HAVE A FAMILY!
SADLY THAT IS JUST NOT THE CASE ANYMORE! COMPANIES USED TO BE ABOUT PEOPLE, NOW IT IS JUST ALL ABOUT MONEY AND COMPETITION FOR THE PEOPLE AT THE TOP TO MAKE AND HORDE ALL THE MONEY WITH SHORT TERM DISPOSABLE HELP BY DESIGN, SEEING ALL ELSE AS AN EXPENSE TO BE WHITTLED AWAY AT ALL COSTS! (A BUSINESS IS ONLY AS GOOD AS IT'S PEOPLE! TAKE CARE OF THE PEOPLE AND PEOPLE WILL TAKE CARE OF THE BUSINESS! HOWEVER THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO TRUE!)
BUSINESS HAS TO BECOME ABOUT PEOPLE AGAIN AND PROFITS BEYOND THAT SECOND! TO MANY PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO MAKE ALL THERE MONEY WITH TO MUCH OF OTHER PEOPLES MONEY, IN AN ENDLESS CYCLE OF A HEAD, BEHIND AND RUN TO GET EVEN THAT NEVER ENDS!
A BUSINESS PAYS FOR ITSELF AND MAKES A PROFIT THAT MULTIPLIES AND INCREASES STEADILY! OTHERWISE IT IS NOT A BUSINESS, IT IS JUST SOMETHING THAT LOOKS LIKE A BUSINESS, PLAYING ALL ENDS AGAINST THE MIDDLE JUST WAITING TO SELF DESTRUCT!
TO MANY IGNORANTLY THINK THIS IS WHAT BUSINESS IS! A WORD TO THE WISE BUSINESS IS TO ALWAYS BE WIN/WIN! NEVER WIN/LOOSE! THOSE WHO VIOLATE THAT TRUTH WILL EVENTUALLY REAP WHAT THEY SOW EVERYTIME! SHORT TERM GAIN, IS NEVER WORTH LONG TERM PAIN, IN ANYTHING INCLUDING BUSINESS!
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Mike Rowe should be Trumps spokesperson/JOBS ZAR the largest industries oil & gas. Construction are SCREAMING for women & men that have developmental skills. I'm 53 make low 6 figures every year with excellent benefits and only brought the right "ATTITUDE" and (2) hard working hands to the job site. Ole dogs can learn new tricks. Sweat drips off my chin but stackin cake 👍💰🎉
If the kids went to vocational schools the cost would be cheeper. But then you would get paid better when you graduated. And there are a lot of jobs available .
I was an Industrial Machine Mechanic (recent retired) for a fortune 500 company (I can honestly say that after 40+ years in various companies I have had less than a twenty times where I was late for work, barring real emergencies), each huge retail outlet had One main manager and 3-4 Asst. managers, the skills I had were in demand enough that I often had a higher wage than most the Asst. managers. Also when I started all the clerks had to wear white shirts, black pants, etc. with a well groomed look, when I finally retired, the company was just happy if they showed up for work, not just on time but actually there and these were higher than average paying jobs that were relatively not too complicated or hard. America, many of our kids are spoiled brats and it is our fault for letting it happen. I wouldn't call my millennial son spoiled but he is lazy and nonchalant about any kind of work and it's not because I haven't tried to set a good example with expectations, a constant labor just keeping him focused on his current job with a nice, successful company with benefits, everyone of his peers is the exact same way and I have absolutely no idea how to fix it cause I've "Literally" tried almost everything, except throwing him out of our lives, which my wife will not do nor do I want to happen. Obviously I have failed miserably somewhere.
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Did he go to public school? If he did then there's the problem right there.
Nothing like getting advice from a bunch of millionaires that aren't tradesman on why people should become tradesman.
Mike is correct .welders electrician's carpenters mechanic's are good paying jobs .and you can get a job every where in the world .I've been there I know .
Thinking of dropping out of college.
I'm 60 years old I've been working in the house trades for pretty much all of my life I've had other jobs that weren't satisfying buy love to build I love to remodel taking things that are not right and making them right it seems that the young people today don't want to have anything to do with this it's disheartening do not have somebody to train we get people to come and try to do it but they're in their 30s they're not really young they don't really want to do what you're doing it would be nice if young people would come to the point where they want to learn how to do things with their hands and make things nice sorry for the rambling but have much to say
A lot of people are too stupid to do construction, etc.--sorry to say. The only thing they can do is something mindless.
Learn a valuable trade and be punctual, motivated, flexible, hard-working, and in possession of a positive attitude at all times. Mystery of life over!
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Become a Railroader you'll make 100k a year and all you need is a HS diploma, no skill needed
If anyone has a residential construction job for me please let me know because I can’t find them and I’ve been looking for months
Mark Twain? Will Rogers?
Maybe we need to start talking about wadges and you will find out that most of the jobs in trades pay better than most of the jobs young kids take right out of college.
d> sez u fool!
Its worth it because, while your working at the bottom, when the time comes and an opportunity to move up in company arrives,you'll have that degree in your back pocket😎
part time construction work !!!!!!
project oriented
skid mark rowe lies !!!!!!
too many worker make low wages !!!!
My father, an old-school Chief Electrical Engineer for Bechtel Corp, specializing in nuclear plant startups, advised me prior to attending college to avoid classes like women studies, art, litature, politics and focus on science and engineering. He said the aforementioned degrees were "degrees in advanced basket weaving", for all the good they did towards achieving a good paying job after graduation.... just sayin, my dad was right :)
Alrighty then...... First , lets consider that the issues surrounding the difficult circumstances for each of the identified parties, generations and those would were assumed to facilitate the preparation to move forward in life successfully have become more complex on many levels and with the shear velocity of all that demands attention these days ,, the potential for any depth of consideration has fallen short on just about any account of the situation that effects a great deal more than education. The reality is that the issues surrounding this and so many other areas, peoples and the assumptions that so many seem to fall back to are clearly not serving anything. We, collectively , really would benefit from taking a good look at ourselves and all that we profess to be human, American, mature and well considered...... then begin to speak again to one another with some of the respect and consideration that is so clearly demanded by each and every one one those who wrote comments to this video as well as those who have been involved in any part of its production. Its way beyond the time in which these discussion would ideally have taken place. Unfortunately after so much time has past we’re now meiered with the reactions to it all which start to look an awful lot like the desperate grabbing for survival, power and still with the values of uncontrolled greed......... is this who we Really Are?
Maybe if these 'high pay/high demand jobs'' weren't in backwater dumps of towns in rural America that no self-respecting Americal with an education would ever dream of moving too the jobs would be more desirable? Maybe if those jobs didn't require one to move so much or had a more stable job outlook? Sorry but $45kk a year doesn't mean shit if you're only working somewhere for a few months before work runs dry...or even worse if your job was located somewhere with no civilization, no prospects, no proximity to anyone who will support you in the event things don't work? Hmmm do I wanna move 2,000 miles across the country and chance being completely screwed over with no one to help me nearby? Naaaah I'll take the route that DOESN'T result in me possibly ruining my life or losing life and limb for a few bucks. There is a reason people don't chase these jobs...THEY'RE NOT DESIRABLE!!!!
Not to mention employers are so damned picky. There are MILLIONS of us begging to go to work. They just don't wanna hire us.
The Mexicans are the best concrete workers.
Jesus, hands-on is so much more fun!
I RECKON "...🕊❤🕊 😁👆
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IT'S MY JOB !