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Originally Posted by 8 Ball
Oh, I get it. A lot of university educated people look down upon the trades and pass that onto their offspring.
The notion that a female working in the trades, making six figures plus benefits, company vehicle, and RRSP matching all the while being physically fit is somehow a setback is hilarious.
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I am complete agreement with you in regards to the trades. That 100% is where it's at now and it will only accelerate in a lot of ways with this AI nonsense that is coming down the pipeline and will attack A LOT of white collar office jobs.
I come from an immigrant background myself and I know the pressure to do well and move more into "status" jobs. For a lot of immigrant families who worked hard doing the manual labour style work, they REALLY want their children to well and get higher social status jobs like medicine, law, finance, politics etc It's like in the movie, the Godfather. Don Vito Corleone didn't want his prized son Michael to take over the family business, he wanted him to become Senator or Governor. What was logical? Take over the family business!
I see this conundrum more and more now with my social circle, a lot of immigrant families and the general population. Mom and dad are in (insert manual labour business) like restaurants, tile, plumbing, farming, factory work etc. There is no transition plan and a big emphasis on education and getting office level work . The children graduate with BS degrees in some fields and then proceed to get some whatever level office job making $80k a year. All while this is happening, Mama and Papa Bear are looking to retire after 30 years and sell off the business that could be generating over a million a year in revenue, plus tax benefits.
I don't have children myself but if I did and they were approaching university age. I would 100% push them towards the trades or something VERY specific like medicine, engineering, law. When they finish school, they need to have specific skills and not random degrees.