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No amount of :smuglord: ing by people who do trades will help either, because if everyone who did college instead did trades, you'd have a similar problem. Also, in my country at least, construction and plumbing is being hit hard for some reason, so it's not a guarantee for success.
“Just to go college, bro.”
“STEM only bro”
“Engineering or coding only bro”
“Just learn a trade, bro.” <- You are here
“Just join the military bro”
“Just start your own business bro.”
“Just live in the woods, bro.”
Bonus round (no particular order):
“Just network bro.”
“Just be a full-time volunteer, bro.”
“Just take online courses porky doesn’t even count, bro.”
“Just accept flipping burgers forever, bro.”
We're so fucked 😭
Everyone switching to "profitable degrees" ends up tanking the value of that degree and it's happened multiple times within the last 40 years. Dentistry in the 80s, law in the 90s, web design in the 00s, and now computer science in 2025. The trades, as you say, are no different. They're just a cheaper version of degrees with higher return on investment.
I suspect if your country is seeing plumbing and construction go down the drain, it's a sign new buildings aren't being built, repaired, or renovated. Could be due to too many empty office buildings since the start of covid making everything work from home.
Classic hog cycle
I like how they never actually meet in 100% equilibrium, I appreciate the attention to detail
Corporate pigs will never be as cool as actual pigs.
Learn to plumb is starting to become the new learn to code
In 10 years when the oldest Gen Alpha are young adults: "Help, I did 5 years apprenticing and I can't find work, my parents lied to me, they said I was guaranteed a job!"
Gen Z commenting: "you just didn't grind hard enough bro. How many side hustles did you have while learning?"
The recent robots from china looked pretty cool but I am sure it would never be able to do my job in the future
learn to trode
I'm going to open a bakery and make communist themed donuts
I'm gonna open a protein bread bakery and call it Yeast Mode
Fuck. Okay how about Breadlift?
Swole Grains