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Originally Posted by bizaro86
The attitude that it is the low performers who should go into trades is the problem. I'm a university educated professional (P.Eng) and have huge respect for the trades. Those are often good, stable jobs held by smart people who make important decisions and do interesting work. In a previous job I worked with an instrumentation tech who was smarter than me and made more money than me. But I had way more social standing within the company and in society in general as a professional. Which is stupid.
We need more tradespeople way more than we need graduates of many different university programs.
If trades weren't looked down upon by so many they would be considered a more viable career choice for young people. Maybe then we'd have the high end manufacturing reputation of Germany.
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This is actually more important than people realize.
Just with PPE, finding companies to make this stuff within Canada is a massive challenge simply due to the fact that there is no talent available that can do this stuff.
The province of Manitoba is desperately looking for companies to make a silicone reusable face mask that can hold a n95 filter, and they are willing to advance up to $15 million dollars and offer 20-30 year contracts to make the masks.
There are no takers because companies can't find the talent to figure out the manufacturing process.
Its insane how ##### our post secondary programs are when it comes to churning out talent to fill actual jobs. And then people complain how the automation will take away jobs. Insane.