Gen Zers skip college in favor of jobs that AI can't take 

Good. Say no to college debt.

Imagine a family where 1 can fix electricity, 1 can fix house, 1 can fix cars, 1 can grow & cook food, 1 can sell, 1 is a healer. Sounds self sustainable to me. Who needs college.

Very smart! I support that 100%. College has gotten out of hand with the tuition and with the propaganda! College is not worth it anymore.

First thing they should teach the students is honesty. So much lies in the business like auto repair, air conditioner services. Finding one honest repair service is not easy.

Excellent report! I did both College & Trade school!! I learned NOTHING in College worthwhile, but I am still using what I learned in the Trade School I went to in the late 1970's!!!

Here’s what’s going to happen… everybody is going to start applying to trade school, the tuition is going to get jacked up, and the employment opportunities is going to dwindle.

Used to learn on the job.... Now these middle men take the $$$$.

College guarantees debt but not a job.

Finally, maybe there is a chance for Gen Z

What AI can't replace. Undocumented workers who do it for half as much money will 😂

I’ve advocated for technical schools more than I do college. Too many useless degrees . Technical school is even quicker and more affordable.

Trade schools are a lot better than College.

Last year, I was working full time, budgeting groceries, unable to afford date nights, and missing time with my kids. Now I learned how to make money online. Now am a SAHM, homeschooling, and making profits every week.

While watching what is going on at these colleges. I don't blame anyone for skipping college.

Smart move. Don’t waste your time with a BS college degree. It’s useless.

Who needs plumbing, electricity, HVAC A Car Mechanic, A Car Electrical Mechanic, Those Are The Things My 18 yr old is focusing on, His dad wants him to go to University. I Don't

The best skill for an American these days is hobo survival skills

I go to Los Angeles trade tech I completely agree with him, I just wish we didn’t have all the protests

There is no good news here. Wages have been stagnant in the US for 40+ years. More people training for fewer jobs just means lower wages to come.

Just an FYI sometimes you don’t even need to go to a vocational school to become a professional tradesman. You can obtain a lot of your certifications simply by becoming an apprentice, then journeyman, and then once you’re competent enough to take the tests & pass them, you’ll be on your own. This is exactly what I did in automotive. The dealership I work for paid for me to go to Honda School while I worked for them and I achieved Master Tech in about 3 years. Now I own a home, have no debt other than a mortgage, and have a 911 Turbo.

In 1983. I paid 1500 bucks for trade school.. it got me 15 bucks an hour when minimum wage was 3.35. An hour and at the end I was making 250k a year on a 1500. Buck investment!!

Theft of Service Leaders in an educated opinion. I was a field service tech for Cummins Allison 852 Feehanville Drive Mount Prospect, IL 60056... They make money counting equipment however ,this is what ya deal with, half assed refurbished parts and to top it of they told me not to do the preventative maintenance anymore at customer sites just run the vacuum a little bit and wipe down the machines (make it look good). I was like "But that is gonna make the service call numbers go up and is >theft of service< WHY ? Well they wanted to keep selling new equipment every 3 years or so as the stuff would have lots of problems see ? With At Will, I was fired...SAD HUH ? Country is in TROUBLE...INVESTIGATION is needed asap folks. I thank you. BTW

Finally some GOOD news 👏🏽👏🏽

People are finally awake! Enough is enough!

Engineers are not radicals as we are bound by REAL Laws of physics not the artificial BS laws which can change almost weekly. Our laws and rules can be depended upon to remain truthful no matter how we FEEL, no matter what country we are in, or if we travel to distant planets.

Working with your hands will never be replaced!

I once studied welding at a vocational/tech school. 2017/2018. Thats when it had started to get real popular. Kids were flooding into the welding field like crazy and suddenly employers had a large surplus of applicants, thus leverage. One thing led to another, employers reduced their wage offerings to $15/hr. So i left welding.

The people who do this are smart. My landlady has 3 sons, 20, 22 and 24. Youngest is training as a carpenter, middle is in the Coast Guard and has already bought a house, oldest graduated from a state college then trained as a fireman, and is engaged. Nice young men, very responsible.

Problem is we grew up in a society that takes. And takesm

screw blue collar jobs. I finished my bachelors and I'm debt free. I absolutely hate doing blue collar jobs which I had to do a lot of to pay my way through college.

Gen Z may be annoying and delusional but they’re smart.

Any reputable financial advisor will tell you to avoid debt at any cost.

One year of trade school for $20K 😮. Does that seem outrageous?!??

Strippers cant be replaced. Authentically anyway

THEY WILL DEFINITELY REGRET THAT DECISION ONE DAY IN THEIR LIFETIME. SADDDDDDDD

I worked for this “school”. Their primary mission to is extract financial aid, they are for profit. High student to teacher ratios, under equipped labs and no real concern for delivering useable skills. The trades are vitally important. Community Colleges, union/company apprenticeships offer better value and higher skill development. Encourage underplayed people of any age to look at the trades, and encourage them to steer clear of for profit schools

Wow. Can't believe I became a doctor in 1 yrs.

What happens when they start building robots that can do these jobs? Because it's 100% possible. The question becomes is it less expensive for companies to pay for robot maintenance than paying annual salaries and benefits.

My youngest left college when classmates said he shouldn't have the right to vote because he is prolife. Now working on the journeyman license.

I went to Beauty School in 1991. It cost a total of $10,000.00. I also went to Barber School.

Going to college is bs. I learned way more overseas than my 4 years of college

College is just like high school but you have to pay.

Smart !! Everybody can work a computer.. Trades will solve it!!

This is great but they should speak about all the injuries too.

Knowing what I know now 60 years later, I wonder if I would have taken a hard look at a good trade school at the time I started college in 1963. I wanted to be a fighter pilot and serve my country in Vietnam. At the time one had to have a four year college degree to get a commission in the service, and a commission in order to go to pilot training. So I majored in Radio and Television Communications, arguably a trade school curiculum, and had a brief stint as a broadcaster at a major market AM and FM radio station before being commissioned in the Marines and becoming a career military and commercial airline pilot. My college major could have been in a trade school. If the military had recognized such training as equivalent to a four year degree, I might have taken that route. Unfortunately, the military still requires a four year degree to become an officer today. It doesnt take a degree in aerospace engineering to become a competent fighter pilot or serve in another officer specialty. I wonder why the US military still has this educational bias?

The trades is nice, if you just want to be an employee and are following the comfortable path. Comfortable path being.. .you are just assigned a set of tasks of responsibilities for you to accomplish and that's it. You're stuck at that level, you become better at it sure.. but that's it for you. Owning a business in Trade is a whole other thing. The only issue with Trades is the toll it will take on your body and how easier it is to lose a job due to injuries than market. While people with degrees choosing the employee route, can also lose their jobs to the market more easily than a Trade. The degree person can still work if they brake/lose a leg or arm. or any other physically damaging scenario. Because they are paid to use their brain, mostly. Meanwhile the Trades, you are paid for your physical body mainly, rather than to think. You already have the knowledge from experience. However, the person in corporate can still function since their job is not that physically demanding. 1 accident is all it takes, for you to have no income at all.

Don’t kid yourself the robots will take their jobs too. Sooner than you think.

Forget about the debt Just say no to college waste of money

SMART MOVE.. I wish I did this. 4 year college was not worth it for me. Unless you are getting a degree as a lawyer, doctor or specialist scientist

Learning a trade will cost less, and the graduates can earn a lot more than those who have gone to college, I did trade school in two years was a HVAC technician, and was earning one, and a half times more than my cousin who went to college, and got a business degree!

Wait until robotics are catchingup

Propaganda. Stay in school kids

What about all the robots 🤖 that are rolling out? It’s just a matter of time you see one working at your home.

For most there is no reason to go to college. Jobs used to pay for the degrees through better pay, but pay scales have not kept up with the costs of college.

My son is Gen Zier and in college now, but I sent him this video. Hopefully he’ll like it and changes his mind and get a trade.

I install floors and clean floors making money hand over fist. Only issue is no competent help

Essential workers are the key.

Most news worthy! 🎉🎉🎉 from Dem. Understand LincolnTech has special program for low incomer, wish they could expand it further These could be silver bullet for our young generation.

I pay welders average $4000 a week. Learn a trade folks!!!

AI humanoids can potentially take any job.

I got a trade & a masters degree. Golden. I just manage my peers.

What they gonna do when that robot that can parkour and shoot guns gets that AI upgrade to do trade work?

If you believe AI can't take trade jobs, Boston Dynamics says hello

Learn to work on robots😂

Well school is pretty hard.

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I'm Gen Z. I avoided college debt by taking AP classes and getting scholarships. I have a law degree, and zero college debt.

If my son doesnt know what he wants my wife and I plan to push him towards trade school. He is already good at fixing things, and he is into hobby RC and puts these RC cars together very well

I appreciate all of you!

College isn’t bad if you major in something with good career outlook. We have too many psychology majors.

$20 to $30,000??? I thought it was free?!!! I got a Bachelors for free! No student no loans - studied my a** off and got scholarships, grants, financial aid.. put the work in, stay away from those loans, and study hard no matter how long it takes..

College is a waste of time unless you’re there for the experience. Only Doctors and engineers should need a college degree.

University is theoretically still beneficial for the highly motivated student, but the problem is that most students are at University to socialize and party. So, they end up with meaningless degrees with empty promises of attractive job offers and a huge student debt that they hope will be forgiven one day.

I got my BSN degree for free. I only have 2yrs experience and I’m a Director of nursing and I make 140k annually plus bonus and good Benefits. Employee paid healthcare insurance etc.

Because people are not stupid.

Don’t get injured.

End of the lazy girl job era 😅

Trades will always be around and farming. Even white collar jobs today can be learned through self study IMO everything can be learned through books and via hands on learning This is the way and the future. College straight out of highschool will be last on the list soon The world is open and FREE

The US has student loan debt worth many countries' GDP.

I’m considering stop putting money towards my daughters college with all this wokeness and other craziness in College Why send her

Young people are seeking trade jobs to avoid debt & because a degree has become worthless nowadays

AI can take EVERY JOB if we do not stop it now

Good

We’re literally in a south park episode at this point.

Amen 🙏🏻👍🤗

Yet.

YES! I have argued in favor of vocational training for young adults. This is GREAT for the economy, upwards socioeconomic mobility, mental health, strong families and reducing crime. It's head-scratching to hear professors tear this idea apart. But then again, they tend to lean on theory and preferred ideology, while engineers and skilled workers are involved in facts of every day real life.

Lincoln Tech is a for-profit tech school. Look into your local community colleges and avoid the for-profits.

Trade schools comeback. I almost went welding 8 years ago but went engineering instead. One of the last degrees I would say is worth it.

That's what I mean by handing off the future to the future and let them control their own path to success that's what everybody needs focused on they want change on so many level and y'all ain't even listening

Good for them, I especially like the fact you don't have to waste all that time and money taking classes that have absolutely nothing to do with your career of choice.

Any recommendations for jobs not affected by AI?

Join a Union

Ah nice less competition

If everyone goes into trades, the field gets saturated, it gets harder to get a trade job, and then all those new tradesmen are screwed.

That's the way to do it, college is not working.

Smart, Or you can go cyber/It for the military. If you're already going software and are over half way there.

I have been advising young people to skip college and go to a trade school for the past 10 years, it is amazing it has taken these young people this long to catch on to this ides. But it is great to see, in today's educational system you have to have a Masters or Doctorate degree in order to make good money, but educational schools can teach you a wide range of skills like an Electrician or a Carpenter, Plumber just to name a few. I have a BA in Clinical psychology & Business Admin, but in addition I have a universal refrigeration lisc. & Unlimited boilers lisc. & Certified Facilities manager & about 10 FEMA Certificates just to name a few. This all started with earning my two degrees in 1979, I am 67 mow home and car paid off living comfortably

Right choice!

AI can do those jobs too. Advances in robotics are speeding up.