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And put metal, wood and automotive shops back in high schools.
Yes. You learned how to make biscuits. I started baking at 7 and cooked for the harvest hands by myself when I was 13. I was a better cook than the teacher. I was also a better seamstress. I learned carpentry from my brother and have done all the finish work in our two homes. Had to. Champagne taste, beer budget.
Very impressive! My husband says, I have a champagne taste and no wallet🤣 He asks, why do you always have to have the best? Me: I picked you didn’t I? Don’t question why I want the best!
When I did this, it was very unusual for woman to take command of power tools. I am not physically strong enough to handle full pieces of wall board but I can finish to a 5 and do patches. I was good at geometry and can visualize how pieces of standard molding go together for elaborate crown molding and wainscoting. I have built closet storrage systems and built in book shelves and painting, of course. Some framing. In all candor, sewing requires more skill. Arthritis prevents delicate hand work but I can weild my favorite power nail gun. I know. More info than anyone wants to know. Sorry
I have two girls that finish concrete for me. They are two of my most valuable employees. One worked until she was 6 months pregnant and came back to work 2 months after having the baby.
I actually see a lot of girls in the trades these days.
This. Pays a lot better than receptionist. You're a good person for giving these women a chance.
Its as much pragmatic as anything. Girls tend to be lighter and can get out on the floor earlier without sinking. If its a big floor Ill send one of the boys out with them to mitigate their lesser strength and stamina.
Finishing is hard work, especially when its hotter than shit and the cement is flashing. But my girls are total badasses. Tough as nails and dont even blink at the racy male banter (they even join in lol). But they are both beautiful young girls and they are like daughters to me. I wish some of the boys were as tough as they are.
That's all very impressive! ((sigh)) I love the idea of having built in book shelves & closet storage, but, alas, that is nowhere near my skill set. I do ok organizing with what I already have though🐸
Get a 10 inch compound mitre saw, a good hand saw thar can go in a guide.a Kreg joining system. A router and some basic bits, some standard measuring tools, like a carperters square and some good clamps and you can build cabinets. The only thing I won't use is a table saw because the wood can bind and pull your hand over an open blade. Did that and sat for 10 minutes holding a towel tight around the wound, wondering how many digits I was hold inside the towel. All was well but the next day I sold that killer saw. I have always found work around. Sigh.
Oh you're so sweet to take the time to write all of that info! Just walking into a Home Depot makes me stressed. I can't even figure out how to hang a hook properly in the ceiling to hang a fruit basket🐸 It's ok though, plenty of other random skills to have a successful biz & be able to barter with friends to help or hire people to fix things as needed👌& OMG, your table saw story, sheeesh!! Glad you're ok!❤
You have mad valuable skills. You should be very proud of yourself! Look into Turmeric with pepper or Moringa for arthritis. There may be an adaptigen that will help. Make sure you when you search plant medicine you add “certified herbalist” if you don’t the results are collages, medical and government sites. Also do research on the brands. I buy a lot of herbal tinctures from small businesses online.
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My husband basically taught himself by remodeling our 78 year old house. He doesn’t do trim work so he did farm house window casing, base and upper trim. I like it it fits our house style. He has rewired the entire house and the plumbing except he hired a plumber friend for the series re-plumbing from pipe to pvc. He has rebuilt the AC and heat several times over. The repair man we used to use has complimented him. Even though he lost a customer🤣 My grandpa taught him a lot and he learned the rest on the job and YouTube.
That is impressive. I am terrified of electric and plumbing. I am very good at basic construction. Geometry. And understanding how weight needs to follow to the foundation. Actually, I am impressed by all skills. My sister didn't do woodwork but she did do needlework that could be displayed in a museum. People should take pride in skills. The new generation simply takes pride in calling for help. Sad.
Absolutely! Having skills can be so helpful. I’m the electrical helper😳 Always have to tao the ceiling so be can find the hole to feed the wire down. Recently he’s been adding task lighting in the kitchen. It amazes what he can do. He’s wired the house to flip the switch to run generator. It’s in a storage building and ran wire from house under ground to storage building’s panel box. He got a licensed electrician friend to check it. You can legally do your house but not other’s houses. I might not be saying that correctly.
I did needlework when I was a child. It was getting popular again in the 70s. My daughter has learned cross stitch and is embroidering names with yarn on kid’s sweaters. They are selling min $80.00. She makes gifts and for her child. I’m impressed because she never cared about doing things like that. Crafts and sewing clothes are becoming popular again. Women in the 30s range are getting interested. She’s learning to sew with my machine. Her friend makes clothes for her daughter and sells them. Clothes for the toddler is next on her list. She’s excited and ordered fabric. I’m so proud of her.
I barely passed high school math. Advanced math blows my mind. Great chat fren
Grin. I have a house full of the best. I am an excellent bargain hunter. Scallamandre fabric, herrend China, waterford crystal, lenox, spode, virginia metalcrafters, baldwin.
Nothing like getting a good deal! Thrift stores are the best. I have a one year old granddaughter and my daughter buys high end clothes barely worn for her. There’s a few around with great kids clothes.
Smart. And the quality clothes she buys means they last longer and look better. We didn't have high quality thrift stores so I had to learn about "dot" sales and clearance racks and warehouse sells. When my kids were young, they actually won best dressed contests at school. I looked like a bag lady, but my kids looked great.
Thanks for sharing. In the 90s I remember one popular consignment shop. I went a few times on bag sale events. The salvation army was in the really bad part of town. Nothing like today. Thrift stores are great now. Our clothes came from Belk, Sears and walmart. I used the layaway a lot at walmart. My fil worked at sears and he bought things for us to get the discount. Young people today don’t have a clue about stores today compared to now. You could get deals at the big department stores.
I am very impressed! Good for you. I learned to plan and budget my wedding, tailor a suit, cook in High school Home Ec, I started baking at a young age also. Pies became a specialty. We canned everything from the garden and I've taught my daughter to can. By the way, the best canning cookbook ever is the Farm Journal's Freezing and Canning Cookbook published in 1973 edited by Nell B Nichols and Kathryn Larson. This one edition has many prize winning recipes. We can the meatless spaghetti sauce and V4 juice each year. Delicious. They do need to reintroduce life skills back into school. Trade schools will be the future of our country. When I see young people who went to trade schools, they make good money, and have job stability. Then I see college graduates who can't get jobs. I see all kinds of people who have worthless degrees and do menial jobs. They whine that they can't get a job, but it was their poor choice of fields to study. WTF! That was a waste of money!
I have the same Farm Journal's Freezing and Canning Cookbook, same year. A friend found it for me. It's the canning bible. If there were one thing we could not do without in the winter it's the V4. If my house were on fire, I would grab my canning books and recipe boxes. Everything else is replaceable. It's nice to meet you.
If the people who get paid to do it can learn it , we can figure it out.
Now with them moving pictures on this boob tube it's almost easy ; )
Besides 4 years of Metal shop and 1 year Auto shop in HS, I took a Foods/cooking class my senior year so I could be in a class with lots of girls. True story.
Or change a light bulb. No really, apartment managers near college's are seeing college students change apartments. They are realizing that the students don't know how to change a light bulb so are aking to change apartments. So fing retarded.
Ok. That's an old joke. How many so and so's does it take to change a light bulb? 3. One to hold the bulb and two to turn the ladder.
That's assuredly a new degree of helplessness.
Agree.
Yes we had all three of those in grades 9-12 in the late sixties. The woodshop teacher had a beautiful designed paddle with aerodynamically drilled holes.
And shooting and archery and civics
I went to trade school and my employer paid for it. "Machinist" made over $100k every year.
My last year of teaching, I had a HS junior who was making over $40k in after school and weekend part time work in the automotive field. The school was forcing him to take algebra 2 that year because they were still using Obama’s common core program. I made sure that he got a passing grade. This was the 19-20 school year.
You did the right thing. When my daughter was in middle school they had boys that should have been in 10-12 grade. Now they just pass them through and they can’t read or do basic skills learned in elementary schools. It’s very sad that the school system and parents has let these kids fall through the cracks. In my daughter’s Spanish class Spanish kids were in the classroom getting 100s. That should not be allowed.
Good for you.
There’s an interesting book called “The Millionaire Next Door”. In it, the author describes an attorney/doctor/other professional that has a very high overhead, has to pay for the right house in the right neighborhood, the right country club, the right private schools, the right car, the right suits, the right vacation home, the right vacations, the right toys, etc. An extremely expensive life. The author contrasts this with the plumber/lineman/welder/electrician that has zero obligation to pay for the trappings of a fancy life. He winds up with more money than the doctor. So if anyone looks down on a tradesman, because they think they’re less than, they probably have more than the foolish snob making the judgment. Also, all of society would fall apart without tradesmen. I’ve long thought that the most important worker in a hospital is the cleaner, because without them, no one else can work. Can’t perform open heart surgery in a dirty OR. Let’s normalize not seeing jobs as lowly.
The 4 yr college degree is worthless. The only thing you’re qualified for is carrying a leftist protest sign. Those same 4 yrs spent on learning a trade, learning how to start a business, how to manage your personal finances, etc would create 22 yr old adults ready to contribute to the economy not purple haired freaks that want to be coddled.
The Masters Degree is also worthless. I spent two years getting it because the company I worked for encouraged the experience and paid for everything. It was the biggest waste of time, ever, and the curriculum was BS. I learned more doing OJT than any education could've prepared me for.
Why don't we implode the Department of Education in general.
Never should have been legislated in the first place back during the Carter administration. I taught from 1979-2020 and not a single policy that came from the Department of Education in that time improved public schools.
That's all wrong, send them to trade school while in high school.... we built a house when I was in high school. We have schools her in oklahoma that are full A&P schools. Kids can start at 50k strait out of high school,if they pass the FAA test.
If they'd quit trying to indoctrinate them and stick to the basics - reading, writing and math - they'd have time to see that every student graduates with a skill that can support them, whether it's to fund their own higher education or as a career. Other countries do this (like Germany).
No home economics in my private school in the early 80s. My grandparents were my home economics teachers. Every summer me and my brother had to help shuck corn, shell butter beans, snap green beans, shell peas, peel tomatoes & dig potatoes. Digging potatoes was the only thing we wanted to do. Wash was hung out to dry even though we had a dryer. I know how to process tomatoes for canning and was with my grandma every step somehow I didn’t learn how to can. Gotta figure that out! I learned to chrochet at 8 and around that age or after learned cross stitch and macrame. My mom & grandma made Christmas ornaments to sale and my brother and I were always helping out. I had to cut grass with a push mower. At 15 I asked could I go on a date. My my dad said if I picked up pinecones and cut the grass. I should have stayed home and not cut the grass🤣 lesson’s learned. I don’t remember how old I was when I started cooking. I was always in my grandma’s kitchen helping so probably a very young age. I believe I was cooking the basics on my own by 13. By the time I was 12 every Saturday I had to clean the entire house by myself, change the sheets on all beds & washed all the laundry. That was assigned by my dad. My mom never cleaned the house. Before ne my grandma did it on Saturday and my dad worked at least 60 hours was a high functioning drunk, never missed work and would clean the house or at least do certain things. The summer around 7th grade my mom was in Germany on vacation dad was at work my brother got stung by a wasp and hand was swollen really bad. I called the hospital and asked for my best friend’s mom who was a nurse. She told me to make a paste with baking soda, salt & water. Put on his hand. I can’t say why I wanted to learn and be independent. Maybe because I had strong roll models all around me on both sides of the family.
I do believe home economics, woodworking, brick laying, automotive, gardening, etc should be taught in school. In my area most people go either straight to work or into a life of crime. The four high schools in my county have many of these classes. In the junior & senior year you have the opportunity to go to the community college during school for what you want to be doing after graduation. My daughter took nursing classes and those credits applied to her two year degree as an RN. Yes, our school system has many faults but some have good things going on. Sadly most kids won’t participate if they aren’t encouraged at home and have a good home setting. Unless the kids in my daughters generation learned basic skills they don’t know them. My daughter wasn’t forced to do a lot but by the time she was 15 she was cooking entire meals by herself and did her own laundry. Now she’s doing some things I grew up learning. Has a garden, did some canning, bakes sour dough bread and does many crafts. Our kids are the future. My husband has a blue collar job making good money for middle class and he has always had co workers that has a four year degree. Those college graduates realize they can make more money doing a blue collar job than working in their college degree jobs.
States like Texas, Oklahoma and perhaps others in area have classes in archery, bull riding and horse riding (sorry don’t remember the terms it’s a competition like bull riding).
Funny how the trade schools allow you to actually make a good living for yourself and your family while college/University just indoctrinates you and puts you in $100K+ in debt the very masters indoctrinating you. Which is why there is a massive push to send the youth to university, rather than a trade school.
Back when I was young, before you went to study mechanical engineering you would go to a technical high-school and learn to be a professional first, you would do a lot of practical work as well, learn to use all the tools and machinery and got a diploma with which you could either work as a master mechanic or go on to study 5-6 more years to become an engineer. Now they just study arts in high-school and go on to become engineers and have almost no practical experience... they are almost useless unless a company trains them after hiring.
Its 100x easier to teach an engineer grad mechanic-work than to teach a freshly certified mechanic to do engineer-work.
Definitely, that's why it takes 5 years to become and engineer.... but if you have 0 practical experience in a factory and go straight to advanced design you tend to miss some obvious aspects
They certainly will have less debt and hate by the time they are done.
*during high school, for half the day
University really does seem to keep people as "kids" longer.
It kinda seems like it delays maturing and also reduces the subjects ability to think independently.
THIS
Amen
Don't fall victim to the university scam. I can make more income with an associates degree from a trade school (technical college) than many people can with a masters degree. I had very limited debt and accepted a job offer months before I graduated.
We go to regional high schools to promote trade school programs for our profession in order to get kids thinking about their future.
Already working on it. Son will have a welding degree by the time he's out of high-school. It's an in house program. And it's free. It is being taught by the trade school instructor. At age 16 he automatically gets an internship and will begin a lifelong skilled working job. He will be able to stand on his own by the time he's 18. This year we are teaching him driving lessons. However, I'm at a loss for my daughter? Trying to find a similar program for her.
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