TLDR: Officialdom are starting to wake up to the fact we actually need welders, carpenters, plumbers etc. And the general population at large is starting to wake up to the fact that college degrees. Outside of very specific niches not widely offered or hyper specialized sectors. Increasingly aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
I’d imagine there’s no shortage of pressure on school administrators as well. Considering they are in part responsible for these critical shortages. On top of the wider cultural shifts.
Kinda sucks for everyone who missed out on highschools resurgent interest in the trades. And are now stuck 5 and 6 figures in debt. But that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
The entry level classes and boot camps at community colleges and tech schools can get expensive. Highschool is the perfect place to dip your toe into things at relatively low cost
In Oregon, instead of laying off the army of administrators making 200,000 a year, they did a mass layoff of the teachers to account for the loss of federal funding. Basically, the people causing the problem elected not to fire themselves and instead fired the people who actually made the school run.
Yeah. People with the power to make decisions like that generally don’t tend to act against their own self-interest. In this case their own self-interest being keeping their 6 figure jobs. Especially when they know as well as anyone their college degrees in Administration or whatever are increasingly declining in value.
Same reason why Corporate Leaders regularly get golden parachutes even if they run the company into the ground. While the guys on the line get shafted and laid off right before their retirement benefits are supposed to kick in.
I’ve seen a lot of people get upset having years of service thrown in their face and being shown the door so the company can avoid paying out retirement benefits. Or find out they’re now on the hook for a couple grand in extra costs because the company cut insurance benefits.
After all the board and shareholders gotta make the down payment on yet another McMansion and squeeze a couple more percentage points onto an earnings report. That ultimately doesn’t actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
Don't forget aircraft mechanic. Some of our schools here in Oklahoma offer the full FAA certified course,to high schools. The can take the FAA exam right after high school.
I ALWAYS had two things to tell the young 'uns!!!!! IF AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE A DEGREE either in Computer Science or Engineering...DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE because you are wasting you're time...either join the military and make it a career or join the reserves/guard and have NOT ONLY a pension when you retire but will have a better understanding of WHAT YOU NEED AFTER YOU RETIRE!!!!!!!!
People are beginning to be needed in all three service branches (Active Duty, Reserves, Guard)....Some took my advice and thanked my later for helping them out!!!!!!
NOTE: I retired as an E-8 with 18.5 years of active duty time and reserve & guard time...that is 18.5 years of ACTIVE DUTY TIME TOTAL!!!!!
TLDR: Officialdom are starting to wake up to the fact we actually need welders, carpenters, plumbers etc. And the general population at large is starting to wake up to the fact that college degrees. Outside of very specific niches not widely offered or hyper specialized sectors. Increasingly aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on.
I’d imagine there’s no shortage of pressure on school administrators as well. Considering they are in part responsible for these critical shortages. On top of the wider cultural shifts.
Kinda sucks for everyone who missed out on highschools resurgent interest in the trades. And are now stuck 5 and 6 figures in debt. But that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
The entry level classes and boot camps at community colleges and tech schools can get expensive. Highschool is the perfect place to dip your toe into things at relatively low cost
In Oregon, instead of laying off the army of administrators making 200,000 a year, they did a mass layoff of the teachers to account for the loss of federal funding. Basically, the people causing the problem elected not to fire themselves and instead fired the people who actually made the school run.
Yeah. People with the power to make decisions like that generally don’t tend to act against their own self-interest. In this case their own self-interest being keeping their 6 figure jobs. Especially when they know as well as anyone their college degrees in Administration or whatever are increasingly declining in value.
Same reason why Corporate Leaders regularly get golden parachutes even if they run the company into the ground. While the guys on the line get shafted and laid off right before their retirement benefits are supposed to kick in.
I’ve seen a lot of people get upset having years of service thrown in their face and being shown the door so the company can avoid paying out retirement benefits. Or find out they’re now on the hook for a couple grand in extra costs because the company cut insurance benefits.
After all the board and shareholders gotta make the down payment on yet another McMansion and squeeze a couple more percentage points onto an earnings report. That ultimately doesn’t actually mean anything in the grand scheme of things.
Don’t forget small engine & appliance repair!
Don't forget aircraft mechanic. Some of our schools here in Oklahoma offer the full FAA certified course,to high schools. The can take the FAA exam right after high school.
WOW! We offered some auto mechanic training, but not planes.
We have major Air Force bases near all of them,so we need a lot of mechanics.
I ALWAYS had two things to tell the young 'uns!!!!! IF AND ONLY IF YOU HAVE A DEGREE either in Computer Science or Engineering...DO NOT GO TO COLLEGE because you are wasting you're time...either join the military and make it a career or join the reserves/guard and have NOT ONLY a pension when you retire but will have a better understanding of WHAT YOU NEED AFTER YOU RETIRE!!!!!!!!
People are beginning to be needed in all three service branches (Active Duty, Reserves, Guard)....Some took my advice and thanked my later for helping them out!!!!!!
NOTE: I retired as an E-8 with 18.5 years of active duty time and reserve & guard time...that is 18.5 years of ACTIVE DUTY TIME TOTAL!!!!!
Why did you capitalize ACTIVE DUTY TIME TOTAL? I don’t say that I retired with TWENTY YEARS ACTIVE DUTY TIME TOTAL. Just curious.
Why join the military now?
public schools are great again
Let's not get carried away. It's a spark of light in the dark, it's not daylight yet.
Good point.