Trends show Gen Z is choosing trade school over college

Going for the jobs that cannot be done by ChapGPT ?

Definitely the cost. Also we have massive CTE programs at high school now. I have students who get internships in the senior year. When I graduated in 2000, EVERYONE was pushed towards an undergrad degree... Definitely different now.

but who will pay their student loans?

Fortunately, the Infrastructure Bill, the Inflation Reduction Act, and dozens of other executive actions have mandated apprenticeships, funding for trade and vocational programs, expanded worker safety and organizing rights, and a historic reinvestment in the manufacturing, industrial, agricultural, and trades sectors.

The smart ones are!!

I hope this is true. Tuition is skyrocketing. SCOTUS keeps blocking student debt relief. Both white collar jobs and service jobs are high in demand but low in supply. Blue collar work is low in demand, but high in supply. All while infrastructure is crumbling across the nation and unionized labor is at an all time low. Additionally, most blue collar jobs pay more than most coveted corporate work + trade school cost less than exorbitant sums paid to greedy, double dipping universities. "College for All" has failed this country.

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Chips act.

About time. I did this 28 years ago

College is a waste of time and money. I wasted ten years going to school and graduated in 2018. Most of the top and most talented artists in film and animation industry are self taught or they had mentors. They didn't even go to school for it. Also, kids are making so much money on social media platforms, it's ridiculous. Especially the females who are given websites such as OnlySimps. They make thousands or millions now.

23 Year Diesel mechanic here.
Went to college because of pressure from family and work. Dropped out of college half way through a Hydrology degree to become a mechanic. What sold blue collar work to most people in 2024. Other than cost of college loans. Covid. Most white collar jobs get destroyed during COVID. I had to work every day during Covid. Most Blue collar minus Construction have work every year and every day. When 08 Housing hit. I still had a job. Lots of construction lost jobs. Most blue collar jobs are recession proof.

In Norway we're starting to see a precarious shortage of trade educated students/workers as the economy is getting better in the Baltics/Poland and more and more of their 1000's of very skilled migrant workers (especially in construction) chose to move back home. We also see the same withing services as many Swedish/Danish youth now also prefer to move home. Maybe we should stop with literally free college education as 32% of men and 42% of women now have university degrees.

Good on him, but atrocious English for a native speaker. Take part in*, not of. I kept cringing throughout the video. Maybe I'm a bit pedantic but as a Malaysian who had to learn English by the book, their standard of English seriously disappoints me. Like, I spent all this effort to learn it out of respect and they don't even bother trying. The Brits and Aussies are just a little better.

It's a shame that student debt has basically been the hold back to starting ones life.

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