Students cutting wood using a hacksaw - GIF

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There is a noticeable trend of younger people choosing trade school over subjectively less useful degrees. Hope, indeed.

Thank God. Things were so screwed up for decades. EVERYBODY went to university for communications or gender studies degrees so they could graduate and make coffee at Starbucks. There's a terrible labor shortage problem in almost every industry now. Younger people will not do hands on work. You walk into any construction site or plant and you'll see a whole bunch of people who are 50+, a lot who are 40-50, a few who are 30-40, and not many under 30s. There is going to be a catastrophic labor crash in 10-15 years as people start retiring. A number of countries are experiencing this. Things are going to get interesting....

This is my whole thing by the way. I build automated systems for industry so they can dodge the labor crash.

So speaking of soft spoiled younger people. Last year I was trying to hire somebody. I have a shop that's about 30 minutes outside a major city. I went through, I dunno, 30+ people and couldn't get anyone. Why? NOBODY WAS WILLING TO DRIVE TO WORK. And this wasn't a money thing. Most of the time we didn't even get to the point where wages were discussed. Everybody just wants to work from home.