Attrition is affecting other industries.

[knot4u]

Don't ever use MEK, with out gloves, then go pee. Nothing good comes from that.

Or Skydrol, it'll make MEK seem mild.

 

[NickH]

Well they've been told since kindergarten it's college or they're a failure.

It's part of the 80s/90s parenting style, when culture glorified parenting and children became status symbols and validation of parental existence. It will be interesting to see what happens as the Gen Z comes of age, and what the Helicopter parenting and the childhood with the impossibility of failure will do to that generation of young workers. It's kind of a polar swing from millennials who were never good enough for their parents.

 

[Roger Roger]

Party this, partly the 'Dirty Jobs' effect, and there's also something to that millennial stereotype..

Well they've been told since kindergarten it's college or they're a failure.

It's not always a popular opinion, but you CAN do both. My college education prepared me pretty darn well for working as a mechanic. Sure, there was some stuff I had to learn the hard way that an apprentice would know by the time they got their ticket, but on the flip side of the coin there's stuff I learned in first year maintenance classes that I use every day that seems like witchcraft to some of the OJT folks.

 

[trafficinsight]

It's not always a popular opinion, but you CAN do both. My college education prepared me pretty darn well for working as a mechanic. Sure, there was some stuff I had to learn the hard way that an apprentice would know by the time they got their ticket, but on the flip side of the coin there's stuff I learned in first year maintenance classes that I use every day that seems like witchcraft to some of the OJT folks.

I too got my A&P as part of a 4 year degree.

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[NovemberEcho]

It's not always a popular opinion, but you CAN do both. My college education prepared me pretty darn well for working as a mechanic. Sure, there was some stuff I had to learn the hard way that an apprentice would know by the time they got their ticket, but on the flip side of the coin there's stuff I learned in first year maintenance classes that I use every day that seems like witchcraft to some of the OJT folks.

I went to a trade school for auto mechanic after I dropped out of Arizona State and community college. I learned more in 3 months working at a garage than I did in the 16 months of trade school.

 

[Roger Roger]

I went to a trade school for auto mechanic after I dropped out of Arizona State and community college. I learned more in 3 months working at a garage than I did in the 16 months of trade school.

That says more about your trade school than it does about the concept of formal education.

 

[NovemberEcho]

That says more about your trade school than it does about the concept of formal education.

It was a pretty • school. The admissions councilors lied more than my Air Force recruiter. Stay away from Lincoln Technical Institute.

But my point in the original post was that kids are pretty much told college is the only key to success and the trades mean you're a failure. Lots of people are not meant for college but could do very well in the trades but don't because a bachelors degree and a cubicle is what they've been told is success.