Trade schools gaining popularity as cost of higher education skyrockets

Between 1980 and 2020, the cost of higher education increased nearly 170%, leading more students towards vocational schools to learn a trade skill, like electricians and plumbers.
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[@ntme9]

Never went to college, started as an electrician strait out of high school. Got my master's license at 26, never went without the option work for a single day in the last 20 years. Stayed in shape, a 700k house, truck, jeep, boat, motorcycle, happy family. I GOT PAID TO LEARN!

[@ShadowGhost-n8d]

Interesting. Hmmmmm

[@AmericanLiberty-s4m]

Nice!

[@maryshane8023]

Yeah, but how long did it take you to acquire all that? Ain't no use if it was after 50 when you're old, wrinkly, and your looks have gone. Better to go to college to work a good job while you still have youth.

[@ntme9]

@@maryshane8023 Motorcycle 22, had nice 4x4 trucks since 23, bought my first house at 26, built the house I'm in now at 34, jeep at 35, boat at 37. House I'm in now cost 250k to build now it's worth 700, EVERYTHING is paid OFF! I'm on my 3rd motorcycle, had a few quads, safe full of guns, silver, safety cash/coins, plenty of money in the bank., retirement, Roth.. I'm 41 now.

[@pkal244]

​@@ntme9 what's your net worth not including all your liabilities? Nice work on the house.

[@ArizonaSquatch]

Trades need to be taught in high school.

[@MH_6160]

Back in the 90s they did, I took auto shop and welding… just sad.

[@peso457]

They are in some

[@fatalfit]

They are in mine

[@chivasx557]

Then stop cutting programa towards schools

[@TommyTomTompkins]

Get a trade fixing belt buckles

[@gwiz2970]

She comes from a family of electricians. Yall think that didnt play a significant part?

[@barrymccaulkiner7092]

She makes 6 figures through tiktok, alone. No reason for her to promote being an electrician when you're getting paid making videos.

[@gtbmace1583]

Stop making excuses cream-puff.

[@ha-kh7ef]

probably…but it’s a fact younger people are going into trades

[@gshepherd6141]

@@barrymccaulkiner7092 so she's making 200k+ per year that's even more nice.

[@RollerBladingSuxs]

She does onlyfans….

[@edwinpadilla856]

In my trade I don’t make 100k, but pays me more than enough to invest, pay my bills, have no debt, have my weekends free, and don’t take work home with me. In university I could had been a nurse, teacher, scientist, etc… but they treated me more as piggy bank for profit purposes, and always finding all types of excuses to raise tuitions, twisting requirements to take classes that we don’t needed, many having to take more loans/debt, for jobs that don’t pay enough. Sadly, when I was attending college there were teachers whom belittle many of these trade jobs, thus students copy and pasting the same behavior and disrespect, and that is a huge problem too.

[@tuongchu2867]

Especially with the world population declining, we are gonna need more young people for these kinds of jobs. I always told people that there was guy who installed an AC system in my friend house for less than a morning, and walked out the door with $12k paid!

[@HettesKvek]

I had a college professor literally scoff at the idea of people becoming welders. I found it offensive because my dad is a welder and made decent money with it to feed his family. Some people in academia look down on trades like it's a low class lifestyle.

[@scotthearts9634]

Shoot! Your dad probably makes more than him or her just saying 😏😎

[@VYBEKAT]

Some people don't realize how technical and artistic the trades really are.

[@Red_Angel-dw4cv]

Lol, and now, most people that graduated on college works on mcdonalds

[@penguin32383]

About time! Going to high school in the 90's, we were heavily pushed towards universities. A friend told his counselor that he planned on attending a vocational school, and was told that he was "throwing his life away". He now makes more than many others that completed college.

[@jackwindensky5606]

Colleges and universities have faltered both morally and practically by offering curricula filled with irrelevant content, charging students for courses that add little value, and failing to effectively teach the essential skills needed for success.

[@ArizonaSquatch]

Colleges and universities should only be for super high learning degrees. You don't need a college art degree that says you can paint or draw.

[@jackwindensky5606]

@@ArizonaSquatch Fair point, but my concern goes beyond just whether certain degrees should exist. The bigger issue is that colleges often don't deliver on the promises they make about the content and value of their degrees. Even within the supposedly relevant courses, they teach concepts that aren't particularly useful for their given field. For example, while it's understandable that a race car driver should learn about engines, this knowledge cannot come at the expense of omitting core racing fundamentals, especially when the goal is to become a professional driver. Worse still, devoting the majority of a degree to learning about engines instead of actual racing skills is a misallocation of focus. This was what my degree in Computer Science was like and I'm confident other degrees have this issue as well. That is, degrees are so inflated with courses that add little to no value, and the gap between what they teach and the skills needed in the real world is so vast that it borders on gross negligence. To top it off, they charge exorbitant prices to do so.

[@endgamer5593]

It’s truly borderline a scam at this point.

[@mariojrog9465]

Don't forget critical race theory

[@Noorullah1]

It doesn't make sense for a student to pay thousands of dollars of tuition to major in something with a low ROI. It's a major scam for top universities to charge tuition rates for a program with a low ROI compared to another with a higher ROI. I also notice counselors/career experts telling students a certain % of successful Americans obtained a degree, but it doesn't mean their degrees are the reason they are so successful. They could have a Bachelor's in Literature but eventually become successful a operations manager through time and experience.

[@sidewalkid]

Its all a game. College degree fields were empty and so they promoted college. Trades are in demand so theyll promote trades. In 25 years when the trade market is oversaturared theyll promote colleges again.

[@morpheus_circuit]

haha

[@Alex-bw1cq]

Started a business at 19. 22 now and now travel comfortably and have a lot of time

[@gopro2027]

Good, as a 2022 graduate the only way I was able to afford my degree is by starting a business in my field before going to college. So I basically had to have a job in my field before even starting college in order to afford it. Absurd.

[@inmortal131]

100% true many people don’t get a job send many cv and nothing people starting small business in others areas.

[@buildersmark1515]

My daughter starts trade school for HVAC tomorrow. 👍🏼

[@RollerBladingSuxs]

So Onlyfans?

[@scotthearts9634]

​@@RollerBladingSuxs not too bright I see 😂😅

[@inmortal131]

👏🏻👏🏻

[@Tri.dawg1]

I shouldn’t slept on trade school now I’m debt with college

[@ritam1402]

I’m currently a sheet metal worker for Local 71 ✨Girl power✨

[@weskelly4538]

Go sheet metal workers!! I was born and raised on a union sheet metal workers salary. Have nothing bad to say about it. ❤❤

[@DrefDref-q4p]

Are you single? 😅👀

[@ritam1402]

@@DrefDref-q4p actually…I am lol🤦🏾‍♀️

[@neft5449]

Bruh 💀 ​@@DrefDref-q4p

[@KelahCash]

The cost of secondary education rising 170% when it's treated as some sort of societal necessity is so disgusting. The never-ending greed of capitalism is ridiculously angering, to say the least.

[@scotthearts9634]

AMEEEEERICA!

[@KelahCash]

@@scotthearts9634 Exactly, smh

[@oofballz4328]

@@KelahCash I heard Cuba is nice and sunny. Venezuela too, but even better!

[@maryshane8023]

How about linking the girl's SM profiles since that's what this segment is about. Come on ABC do better.

[@HenryBriskin]

Some trades are ok and get you physically fit.

[@benkenny3220]

Wish trades in Texas didn't suck ass. You basically need to be in a union to get anywhere.

[@jerryon9367]

I graduated and can't find a job they want experience

[@Distress.]

I'm actually curious cause I'm pretty sure going into trades is a meme. I assume it only makes money if you own your business.

[@Wongseifu548]

@@Distress. Its depends I know electricians who make alot and those that don't. Just like a job after undergrad its about who you know

[@Distress.]

@@Wongseifu548 That's what I figured. The hype is the same as IT was a few years ago, by the time these people finish training they'll be competing with 100 applicants.

[@justmejenny7986]

Branch out. There are tons of jobs available across the country.

[@Enigma96969]

I’m an electrician… making money through tik tok and being a pretty girl is not the life of an electrician….😂😂😂

[@Wongseifu548]

exactly

[@ha-kh7ef]

of course not…but it’s helping

[@jankaufmann4305]

I'm from Switzerland. Here, the majority of all students are actually obligated to learn a trade during 3 or 4 years. Visiting University is actually reserved to only a minority (approx. 15%) as the whole system is laid out that way. Glad to see that it's maybe not that bad.

[@SpartanManch]

This is the type of thing that I APPLAUD because we don't have enough plumbers, electricians, and carpenters. People are already in bad enough shape financially. Why pay to go to school only to get out in debt with no guaranteed job in the field you went to school for? Just get paid good money to learn a trade and excel in that field. And I'm happy that she's making bank with her electrician job and Tik Tok. She's spreading the word to a new generation that are starting to see that college isn't for everybody and there's absolutely no shame in that.

[@eksbocks9438]

It's to be expected. The younger kids are already aware of gatekeeping in White Collar jobs. And minimum wage jobs can't pay the high rent costs. So, vocational jobs are the only other option available.

[@dungeonmaster16]

Trending? This should have been a standard thing ppl go into to kickstart their career after highschool. Heck high schools need to invest more into elective classes be workshop, culinary, even gardening for those that want to learn those skills and knowledge if plan to go into a profession around it.

[@chrisregister8021]

I play online and I Talk to a lot of people just starting out in their careers and I always suggest to the ones with no direction to become an electrician...

[@anukjayawardana8113]

I just completed my first semester of University, after watching this video, I have to ask myself "Is it worth it spending all of that money for a degree when that money could have been used for my future business or to help my family".

[@darcel21ify]

It’s unfortunate how the cost of college is getting but I’m glad vocational schools/trades are getting more appreciation!😊🔥

[@draege626]

There needs to starter trades programs in high schools; country wide. Backed by funding and any presidential administration should put serious funding behind trade schools. The generation coming up is wanting vital and viable jobs that won't put them in debtors prison for decades.

[@carlanderson8956]

This is normal in Europe

[@MH_6160]

Yup… Canada as well, I met a girl years ago who was a AC technician and her friend was a truck driver.

[@stehgrad]

Yeah, but e.g. in Austria it's slightly different. Here you are allowed to start an apprenticeship at 15 after 9 years of school. You will work in a company and go to "trade school" for a couple of weeks/months per year. Usually this takes 3-4 years. Your salary ist not great, but kids usually stay with their parents. After 3-4 years you have an exam and then you are allowed to work as e.g an electrician. After that you may continue studying and become a master. But there are many different options in Austria. 5 year technical schools from 14-19 or combination of working at a company and technical school. Afterwards you could also go to university/college full or part-time.

[@Mlogan11]

There are too many people going to college = degree saturation and harder to find jobs. The same will happen if everyone rushes to go to trade schools.

[@Jupiter-shorts_]

and after that what will happen.???

[@Wongseifu548]

@@Jupiter-shorts_ No one knows but what he says is true

[@Jupiter-shorts_]

@@Wongseifu548 there won’t be any jobs anymore. Not Evan at McDonald

[@qjtvaddict]

@@Jupiter-shorts_ask China it’s bad over there

[@chadwilling2454]

Most people don’t even last a week in the trades because they didn’t expect the work load that it is. Both physically and mentally. If you’re strong willed and in shape you’ll be fine 😂.

[@Floridaman360]

IM PROUD TO GO TO A TRADE/TECHINCAL SCHOOL

[@jose09841]

What happened to learning to code?? The tech industry was always where the big $$ was at!

[@js6728]

american college is so much of a muse, now its entitled benefits are only to the extremely higher priced and prestiged, must have been changed by those who only want their exclusivity. even a masters will only guarantee a same wage as someone who went to trade school, and it costs 1000x more. when did your society' ever become such a per-verted one. now it seems youll have to pay a lot more for a degree with passing grades to even reach middleclass and thats with both partners working full time, those who decide what it becomes, are the most evil for greeds, and youve only done that, in everything you have ever done.

[@Native722]

I wish I had gone to trade school

[@henaimtiyaz4189]

Breaking stereotypes 👏🏼

[@williamokuda8882]

That's a great idea.

[@tttgaming8762]

Don’t forget you can be a Jeweler too! 😊

[@pixie_sparkle74]

Learning from the EU are we.....

[@andromedaunsure72]

Damn I wish this was an option for me but I come from an Asian immigrant family yknow

[@kentjones6813]

It's time to share big tech money across the country.

[@x-men69-96]

She will slowly become a social media influencer soon

[@thetexanbuzzsaw3145]

Degrees in Trans History doesn't pay the bills!

[@revatronprime4120]

College should be cheap

[@nainmartinez838]

Try it out you too can get covered in sawdust for manual labor at minimum wage.😂

[@vissern21]

Men stopped going to college and decided to go into trade school, and every network wrote it up as men being lazy. Now women are making the switch, and the first thing you hear is that women are paving the way. 😅😅😅

[@thankfulnezzz3299]

underrated comment

[@MotocrossGuru-zf8pk]

nyu $100,000 a year for gender studies

[@justdiane5]

Good!

[@chezzachezza7325]

My neighbour is a trady lady or chippy chick we say in Australia.

[@ShadowGhost-n8d]

Hmmmm. Interesting

[@OperationChicago]

Get rid of high school and go straight to a trade.

[@VYBEKAT]

Man i hated high school. I'd say it would be cool if 50% was hands on and 50% theoretical. Each complements and reinforces the other. Why am i studying science and math? Because it matters in the real world with engineering and manufacturing Why study economics and history? Again it's the abstract study of people working in the real world.

[@OperationChicago]

@@VYBEKAT When a inmate is in jail, Cook County gets $34,000 for each inmate. When a inmate is in prison, tha prison gets $43,000 for each inmate, at least those used to be tha numbers, I am sure they have gone up. Can you imagine what teachers get for each so-called student ? One big scam for teachers to have jobs. It's not like they are making tha world a better place :(

[@pius_xiv]

“Trend”

[@thenotoriousgryyn342]

Good

[@MAHAN-_-game]

❤

[@Kmmipak]

Mike Rowe would be proud

[@ArizonaSquatch]

He's a hack.

[@OfficialDJTasawennateken]

Yeah but what they don't explain is this girl wasted thousands and thousands of dollars to go to college just to go to trade school afterwards She wasted half of her life going to college and her money and now it's probably in debt She could have just went to trade school to begin with

[@MH_6160]

Lots of assumptions there bud.

[@godzilla101188]

@@MH_6160I can verify it’s a fact. She admitted it in her tiktok videos

[@d.b.1176]

Half of her life 😂

[@justdiane5]

She comes from a family of electricians, went to a couple of years of college and is making money from social media... Not exactly in serious debt here

[@RM-xr8lq]

most people should be going to college just to undo the damage of your occidental primary and secondary school.... education in US/UK is so bad pre-college that they are graduating without basic literacy or arithmetic now 😂

[@oliviadababy5840]

Cap

[@jeongminyoun5388]

Good for you guys. I really envy of you. In korea, if you are not in med school, healthcare or IT. You can't survive in here.. vocational school? College? We consider them as failures.

[@justdiane5]

So who do you call when you have an electrical problem?

[@ΓΕΡΑΣΙΜΟΣΜΙΧΟΣ]

​@@justdiane5 The 'failures', I guess

[@Randominterentperson6996]

Now she's an electrician I could get behind

[@bn3764]

join the Ibew

[@severebald]

stop!!!!!!!! I dont need competition in trades!!!!!!

[@VYBEKAT]

There's a shortage of trade workers everywhere. We need houses and infrastructure built and maintained. More trade workers are necessary.

[@severebald]

@@VYBEKAT True. But if this surge results in competition and loss of opportunity for me I'ma be saddened.

[@C.P.C3719]

I remember growing up, there was a stigma with people going to trade school as being unintelligent. They need to bring more of these school. People need to learn to work with their hands and learn to fix things on their own. Its builds character and mental toughness. This has become a lost artform and this generation have become a group of sissies that need to rely on others to do things instead of figuring out how to do things for themselves

[@WeChoseHATE]

Good job. This kinds of jobs trade school skills AI can’t replace workers! Smart move n no student debts!