Nothing wrong with being a tradesman and working with your hands, i worked sheet metal for 48 years. Hard work paid the bills and with what i learned over the decades working with other tradesmen on their trades helped me to save a lot of money being able to fix what needed to be around the house instead of paying someone else to do the repairs.
More aches and pains than i wanted to retire with but i know that every dollar i earned was honest. I hope that Mr. Trump gets trade schools going. It would help breed a new generation of self reliant young men
I learned early in my engineering career to put down my pencil and go ask the shops how to do something. I’d then go do the math to get the specs right. It saved me hundreds, if not thousands, of hours and my designs always worked, never caught fire, and no one was hurt. I also made a lot of friends doing that!
I think it was the so-called educated elites in America that felt superior with their PhD’s that did that. In other countries it is respected to be a tradesman.
I worked in a high precision machine shop for over 10 years, my job was supplying material to the machinists for production.
I’d tell them as I gave them their material. “This material is full of perfect parts, your job is to find them.”
Nothing wrong with being a tradesman and working with your hands, i worked sheet metal for 48 years. Hard work paid the bills and with what i learned over the decades working with other tradesmen on their trades helped me to save a lot of money being able to fix what needed to be around the house instead of paying someone else to do the repairs.
More aches and pains than i wanted to retire with but i know that every dollar i earned was honest. I hope that Mr. Trump gets trade schools going. It would help breed a new generation of self reliant young men
I learned early in my engineering career to put down my pencil and go ask the shops how to do something. I’d then go do the math to get the specs right. It saved me hundreds, if not thousands, of hours and my designs always worked, never caught fire, and no one was hurt. I also made a lot of friends doing that!
I think it was the so-called educated elites in America that felt superior with their PhD’s that did that. In other countries it is respected to be a tradesman.
I worked in a high precision machine shop for over 10 years, my job was supplying material to the machinists for production.
I’d tell them as I gave them their material. “This material is full of perfect parts, your job is to find them.”
No. Most of us are going to tell you that you are correct. Tradesmen deserve at least as much respect, if not more.
What Karl said!
No. This is absolutely *not* true:
Trade schools teach a trade. Universities teach only conformity and “expert” worship.
A trade school graduate has very likely aquired a useful skill, you should give him a chance to demonstrate this.
Anyone with a recent “degree” should be assumed useless until proven otherwise.
As an employer, this became obvious to me in 1995.