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Reply to "AFT President: Not Everyone Needs College"
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[quote=Anonymous]Trades are hard on the body. By 50 many are in chronic pain and on disability and Medicaid, which will soon no longer be an option. Don't know the answer, but I wouldn't push my kids into trades unless they signaled a STRONG interest. My son enjoys physical work - lawn mowing etc. He thought maybe he wanted to be an arborist. But google the injury rate. Imagine yourself at 45 not 19 looking at week's worth of 9-9 hour days of physical work. There is a reason blue collar parents wanted white collar jobs for their kids. Maybe encourage kids to do trades in their 20s with the expectation of college and white collar work in their 30s? The tricky part is kids and mortgages hit in your 30s. [/quote]
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