>>20403594While I don't disagree with your points there's some things I draw issue with.
It depends entirely on what trade you're in and what you do with the training. Going to trade school is pointless unless you're a teenager. You can sign on with a union and in most cases they'll train you with one of their journeymen or masters. Some are bad and others are really good. For instance I'm an IBEW member out here in Vegas and the union pays really well. Enough that a good lot of them move past the casinos and go into business for themselves. It's not 6 figures, a white picket fence and a two car garage money though and never will be. The demand vs trainability ratio is too skewed to where almost anyone can learn it.
America is definitely fucked and you can look out at housing prices or rent to see where it's broken. You have people unable to afford a place to live even working full time. Granted there can be a lot said about people with no skills who can't get jobs but there's also not readily available jobs in every area. You'll have to fight with hundreds of other people to bag groceries for pennies and you'll barely be able to afford groceries of your own.
It's appalling to say the least but you'll have every American chest beating that you're lazy, entitled or boot straps. Work 3 jobs, have no life, barely scrape bye and watch your life slowly slip away along with any semblance of happiness you had.
>go into ITI'd like to touch on this for a moment. If you spend all day on a computer and play video games stop doing it for free. Spin up a free windows server, make a small managed network and apply for a tier 1 end user position. It's very simple stuff and all stuff you can learn for nearly no money. No you're not programming. No you're not a coder. No you won't have to learn Java, c# or python or even how to use any other OS than windows. You don't need a degree, certs or any education other than what you've taught yourself to troubleshoot. Cont.
