Manufacturing.. They need people to run machines 24/7 and the overtime is unlimited. Funny thing is, the machines do all the work once you set them up and you just sit back and relax. Weekend overtime is double pay lol..
I'm a 3x Felon w/ a GED & No Degree but I Make More Than My College Masters Educated Wife
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Good point but how do young people get a trade?
You don't usually get trades on your own. You have to apprentice under someone. The prior generation wasn't really in trades they were mostly in service jobs, domestic jobs, government federal, state and city jobs,low skill labor jobs, manufacturing jobs (which don't exist hardly anymore) and they were basically jobs that new immigrants dominate now.
Hardly no-one from the prior generation can pass down a trade. Trades are generally passed down to family or extended family.
And Jose at the construction site ain't teaching Tyrone a trade.
GPBear
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You can make more money mixing dangerous chemicals, working backbreaking construction jobs and manual labor in the high heat.
That doesn't mean it's what you want to be doing.
The whole point of college is to set you up with a career that doesn't work you to death, mostly through networking with people already in your career field.
That doesn't mean it's what you want to be doing.
The whole point of college is to set you up with a career that doesn't work you to death, mostly through networking with people already in your career field.
Exactly
Nobody's going to college trying to work 70 hours a week doing back breaking work.
David_TheMan
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Never in my life have I heard, nor will I probably hear anyone in real life try to brag about how much they make per hour and act like that is a bigger deal than how much they take home per pay period.
I work in the employment field, meaning when people are unemployed they come and see me. As a result, I'm exposed to a little bit of everyones business.
I have just as many people with degrees looking for work as those who don't. The one downside for those with degrees is that the student loans don't stop.
Skilled trades find work MUCH easier and seldom stress. They have a skill that society needs. Plus there's less stress in the interview process.
Most of my coworkers have degrees...and they make the same as me.
When you get that engineering degree you are competing for very limited positions and you must still deal with racism. Had several brehs with IT degrees and they weren't having luck. Their resume could be impressive but when it comes time for the interview:
"Well we're not sure you will be a good fit here." Translated to, "You don't see this office full of cac nerds. We don't hip hop around here".
To work in the professional environment you often have to be that safe negroe.
I applaud education but that's really the problem with a lot of black people. Being educated by cacs is a contract stating you submit to society.
1) first of all, many black people get their degrees from HBCU's, no "CAC's" involved at all..you clearly feel some type of way about black people with college degrees
2) a majority of people with college degrees seeking employment do so because they're looking for work right after college, many college graduates get their jobs through temp agencies too
the point is that they have options, they aren't stuck in one place forever.
3) student loans are a part of life for every college student, this doesn't mean anything negative - every doctor or dentist you ever went to had student loans, what, they're dumbasses now?
I doubt you even work in the field you claim you do, you may work in a building where people do what you're talking about - but I'm not buying it.
you work for an employment agency but you hate people with college degrees...that don't add up.
David_TheMan
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If you think the point of college is networking and not learning a marketable skill I would say you don't know the point of college.
If you work a dangerous job making more money and incurring no debt to enter the field than a person who goes to college wastes for years of time where they could be earning and doesn't even come out with a skill but only 5figure or 6 figure debt, you are intelligent, more intelligent than the college grad.
How much free time you have after work is a huge deal
Breh better to fall back before he catch his wife getting her back blown out while he's slaving overtime
So way off base
I get that you obviously work this type of stuff but do away with comparing intelligence. It's silly
David_TheMan
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David_TheMan
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What is off base, explain.So way off base
I get that you obviously work this type of stuff but do away with comparing intelligence. It's silly
I'm not in a trade, I actually have a Bs and MS and work in the IT field.
I just see through a lot of the educational BS that a lot of black people bought into, and I see its simply bullshyt.
Get your money, get a marketable skill and eat, but wasting your time, incurring debt, and not gaining a marketable skill that provides a adequate RoI is foolish, and its time we start openly saying so.
I will have to explain after this interview.
brb
How old were they?
