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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll quote Mr Crawford, from European History during my lower year:

“I better never catch you disparaging someone with a trade job. There’s a good chance the guy down the street who owns his own plumbing business made more than you will straight out of college.”

So while you’re wringing your hands over the notion that your prep school kid might — shock! — end up with a trade job, the good teachers at those same schools are telling your kid to stop being an arrogant prick. [/quote]

I guess you aren’t paying attention. PE is gobbling up all these industries, so there wont be any plumbing business owners, just stuck as low paid techs digging through literal cr@p. [/quote]

+1. And this constant stream of articles and commentary pitching trades as the end all, be all and the savior for our kids will simply leave them oversaturated.[/quote]

You think lots of little Sidwell and NCS alums are going to be running to plumbing and electrician jobs? Please.

The jobs are there for the kids who aren’t so arrogant as to think they’re too good for them.[/quote]

No, and I never said that. Not sure where you got that from other than you didn’t read the comment before firing off your own.

What I [i]did[/i] say is that the constant pitching of trades as some kind of unicorn is going to result in them becoming oversaturated. It doesn’t matter where the kids come from. Plenty of middle class kids not at private schools are hearing this message just as often as everyone else.

Combined with the other poster’s point about PE takeovers, they are not the panacea some people think.

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You are forgetting that not only will there be an oversupply of trades, there will be a drop in demand. We cant all work on the 20 houses owned by the local tech bro. Who will have money to hire trades?  Not to mention if everyone is in trades, a family will likely have the necessary skills to perform most household work.

No more office buildings, thats a huge demajd gone too. Data centers have some trade work but not nearly as much maintenance as an office under constant use. [/quote]

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