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How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation
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Can confirm, not going into higher education and getting an apprenticeship was the bar none best decision that I EVER made.
All my friends who took the college/university path are trapped under crushing debt and struggling to find jobs that pay anything, let alone pay decently. College isn't the be-all and end-all it used to be.
what industry did you go into?
Aerospace manufacturing; the apprenticeship paid for me to do exactly the courses and qualifications that I'd need for the manufacturing (instead of me having to pay to do those things) and had a guaranteed job at the end so long as I passed said courses. Way easier than a full college or university degree and I was making money the whole way through.
oh that's dope. I'm curious, what do you do? I feel like manufacturing is always portrayed as like assembly line for cheap products, what's it really like?
Not OP but I work in a similar environment (special heavy rail equipment). In our shop we have lots of tradesman: plumbers, mechanics, welders, electricians, etc.
Generally they are broken up into small teams, handed a set of prints, a kit of parts, and told to build the thing to the print. It's not like an assembly line where you're tightening one bolt all day, it's more like building different Erector sets all day and handing them off to the next team.
Low stakes, high pay, good benefits, regular hours, low monotony. If higher Ed is not for you, I'd look into something like this.
yeah definetly an option I'm looking into. still gonna go to college for automotive, as my local community college has a great program and is really cheap (7-8k/ year for two years), but I can always change my mind later
Oh man, that sorta work would've been a dream for high school me; made it into IT now but damn, not going 3 years in retail/food would've been nice
Generally 3 types exist in the US.
Chemical, high end products, and marginal products (things worth so little per unit weight it isn't worth outsourcing)
The marginal have more of the traditional assembly line ones. You do not want to work there. The high end chances are you are getting a cell and parts come in, parts come out. That isn't bad work.