Career plan for kids who don't want to go to college

[Santiago_TheShepherd]

@""queer""

This narrative of skilled workers making tons of money keeps coming back often. Reality is, outside of some dense urban pockets and in emergencies such as getting power up and running after a hurricane, linesmen make pretty much lower middle class wages for a pretty dangerous job. Plenty of vacation days for sure, because there isnt much work normally.

https://www.ziprecruiter.com/Salaries/What-Is-the-Average-Lineman-Salary-by-State

Not 200K, more like 55K after 4 years of apprenticeship. Nothing wrong with that, but a college degree is a more robust pathway to stability and flexibility. North America’s desis are already a pretty educated bunch and can easily aspire for a lot better.

I am not saying from a perspective of money. The reason for my post was that earning honorable livelihood is important.
Some kids are just not cut out for college.
You live life the hard way, there’s honor in that.

[Imran321]

plumbing, locksmith, and there are many more professions that can be opted.

[a7mado]

[quote=““Santiago TheShepherd””]
One of the biggest issues that I have seen in the desi community is not encouraging kids to become skilled workers in North America. Parents work 2 jobs to get them through college. With all the tech innovations, some job won’t replaced at least 50 years from now, like plumber, welder, iron worker, wood worker, lineman etc.
There is a special kind of breed who like to work with hands, instead of raking college debt on them, try a career plan with like a typical lineman makes 250,000 a year with union benefits, two months if vacation etc and with no college debt. So be straight with your kids and get them out of their misery
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I met a father and son duo in Italy a few years ago. They both run a shop where they repair and restore vintage Ferrari’s. The old man has pictures of him with F1 legends of the time, such as Niki Lauda, Juan Manual Fangio, Bruce McLaren, Jody Scheckter, John Surtees, Gilles Villeneuve, Jackie Stewart, Jim Clark, James Hunt & Enzo Ferrari all throughout his modestly sized shop. Turns out, the old man had developed his skills over decades working for the Ferrari F1 team from the 1960’s through to 83, and he has now passed all of that wealth of knowledge off to his son. His son does not have a college education, but is an excellent pair of hands when it comes to vintage cars, with incredible attention to detail.

At any point their shop has about $10m worth of inventory between 2 to 4 vintage cars. In-fact when I was visiting they had a 250 GT Tour de France in their shop, a car that is alone worth about $15m today.

Between a small team of 7, including the old man and his son, they charge hundreds of thousands of euros just in labor, their annual turnover is in the millions, even though to the average joe, they are just mechanics.