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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry for your son’s disappointment but how about you be kind to the many people who are in trades on this board. It’s absurd you are are wounded about the suggestion that could be an ok life when many people reading and suggesting have that life. [/quote]

+1. Some people are never respectful or grateful of those who worked in trades and skilled labor until they desperately need an electrician, a plumber, or a mechanic. Then they respect that person for exactly the moment they arrived until the problem is fixed, and then it’s right back to looking down on them.

Those of us with critical thinking skills see the writing on the wall: climate change is leading to disasters, and people who are skilled in construction, infrastructure and home repair are going to be in very high demand. Enjoy your crumbling beach house “investment” without the skills of tradespeople to repair and enhance it.[/quote]

And yet they are also dependent on the college-educated people who model the impact of disasters, who figure out the engineering standards structures need to meet, who write the policy guidelines that tradespeople need to follow, who engage in public policy to transform zoning around flood zones, who provide legal advice on compensation for damages due to poor construction, the actuarials who figure out insurance costs etc. etc. We have an ecosystem of work and there are many people who are important to it.  [/quote]

Show me where I said otherwise. I work at a university. I literally work with sociologists, geographical scientists, economists and scholars across broad fields. Want to point out where I said ONLY tradespeople and skilled laborers deserve respect?[/quote]

Show me where I said you didn't.  I just highlighted what *I* see as truth that you didn't mention that I think is relevant to the conversation. 
I say this as an academic from a working-class background who's experienced a whole life of people dunking on college education as ivory tower and somehow not as real, valuable, hard , honest as work as the trades  and  work with kids whose parents eye their educational goals with suspicion.  [/quote]

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