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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of trade jobs, go find a new career. [/quote]

My dad is a mason. I wanted to go into masonry and my dad said absolutely no way. One time some his friends were home and we were taking about it and they were all like kid to go college get yourself a nice job in an office and don't kill yourself doing what we are doing. A lot of people who are doing manual labor don't always want their kids to do the same. And it's not for everyone. When people say trade they often mean manual labour. You think your son who spent all his time playing video games expecting to go to college barely did any manual work at home is suddenly going to be interested and find success doing manual labor?[/quote]

I consider myself a very hard worker and from the age of 10 I was helping my dad with many things around the house. I agree 100% that manual labor is absolutely not for everyone. People magically think that anyone can stand in the heat for hours and put nails on a roof.

Just go to any construction site, observe them for 5 minutes, think about how much they are hitting paid, how good their healthcare is and let me know if you think that's where we should send our kids.

It's unfortunately a side effect of a capitalist economy that some will be losers and other winners. Unfortunately the kids who will end in manual labour tend to come from lower income household. If we are serious about fixing it, we can easily do it via federal policy with policies that by large benefit wealthier households like many of us on this forum. My son is not going to stand in a 100 degree heat putting nails on a roof. And I think many of you think likewise and some of you just won't admit it. You know someones else kid (the kid from the middle or lower middle class) will do it [/quote]

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