Deskbound, Romancing the Brick

[Bernard1599]

There is a an optimistic article in The New York Times today regarding skilled trades. If you are not too busy, you may want to take a quick look at it.

Regards,

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/fashion/27trades.html?_r=1&th&emc=th

 

[SEO]

Looks like more compitition on the way.

 

[cadpoint]

My parenets always said get two "vocations", if you can't work in one work in the other. I've done it!

My read of this is that while Americans might well be a white collar society, the realization is how one excepts their longing or understanding there own issues.

If a hobby or a pleasure can become a wage earning aspect, so be it!
Some of it may be the wish for the otherside or the old what if's coming out, and they are applling themselves, again I say go for it.

The hardest things to cure is ones own evils, how they get it done well thats just a cure to for them to live, right! :roll:

I also beleive that the States that understand educational matters like those in the article and address both colligiate and technical/vocation needs, are way better of than those that don't!

 

[growler]

I think that most people really would enjoy working at a blue collar job. Well, that is, until they find out what it's really all about. I did some work with a remodeling contractor that gave up his white collar job to become a contractor. He allready had many of the skills necessary for the job. He was a pretty fair carpenter and knew trim and tile work. He had spent years doing sales work so he knew that.

His real problem was that he didn't know how cut throat the industry really is. He started to figure out how much time he was spending to locate and sell jobs and then the time necessary to run the job and then all the effort to collect for the work. He got quite depressed and started to drink heavily.

The problem is that in most parts of the country laying bricks doesn't pay very well. Lots of competition in the residential market so to make any money at all you have to run a crew and then they are back to all the head aches they left behind in the corporate world. How to turn a profit in a very competitive world.