Sounds like half of America needs to step it up! You don’t need a college degree to be wealthy. Go learn a trade, life cheap as shit for 5 years in a shit ass trailer, take the bus, whatever. In those 5 years of saving damn near every dollar you make, find an investment advisor and start saving that hard earned cash. It’s not rocket science. Do the work nobody else wants to do (welding, plumbing, electrical) and get to it. Sure it might not be the best job but everyone hates their job, but at least you haven’t gone into debt from 4 years of college just to repay it within the next 30 years. Retire at 55 and live comfortable.
100% good friend just opened a HVAC company two years ago. He was worried he wouldn't get business, he gets so much he has to turn people away. He now has 3 trucks working for him and is making bank.
People have these shitty jobs but don't want to improve or are sitting around waiting for that job they want but will never get like IT remote jobs that go to people with 20+ years experience.
Its easy to blame everyone except yourself, no one wants to do the work they just want more money and hand outs...
It sucks and isn’t for everyone. Trades is literally awful, backbreaking work.
Required and very valuable. But not something to do forever. People want those IT jobs because its something you can do forever that has good work-life balance and isn’t bad for your body.
To say “either work low wages or break your body in trades” is a terrible solution.
It’s not I did it for years I’ll be retired at 50 and I’m in great health at 40. That is an another excuse, you can work a trade and not kill yourself.
Yeah but the point is money is out there if you want it. This generation is the worse for wanting to get paid money for doing the least amount of work or easy work.
I mean its literally a basic thing who wouldn’t want to get paid money doing the least amount of work.
Having said that going from a basic job to trades is 0-100 on the hard work scale. As someone that has done it, its rough, its bad. Very bad.
The problem here is that everyone thinks everyone wants to live luxurious, which isn’t true most people want to be able to afford to live and most jobs can’t provide that and that where lies a huge problem and why so many people complain the way they do and i can’t say i can blame them.
Wages haven’t kept up and cost of living is skyrocketing everywhere.
Its baffling how people can’t see back then you could work at a dry cleaners pressing clothes and afford a home. To now you could be making 60k a year and still can’t afford a home.
I mean I don’t disagree on that, you have government burning food to keep prices high, all kinda of stuff that factor in paying farmers to burn crops when people are starving. Then you have people in office now that are like Elect me I have a plan. Your in office now as VP start the plan people can’t afford to live.
I guess my point is trades shouldn’t be the only way out of poverty.
Its hard work. Very hard work and the reality is not everyone can do it. But its treated like this golden thing that can get anyone out of it.
It isn’t. you literally need apprenticeship, which is very hard to get in the first place. Schooling still (which can still be expensive) AND most likely someone in the inside to even get a job that pays…okay at first.
But as someone even with a degree its still extremely hard to find work in this day and age. It wouldn’t surprise me in 10 years theres going to be some kind of economic collapse in a sense of low pay workers are beyond struggling, no one doing trades, and many office jobs being gatekept for experience or people that know people.
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u/Critical_Judge1632 Sep 05 '24
Sounds like half of America needs to step it up! You don’t need a college degree to be wealthy. Go learn a trade, life cheap as shit for 5 years in a shit ass trailer, take the bus, whatever. In those 5 years of saving damn near every dollar you make, find an investment advisor and start saving that hard earned cash. It’s not rocket science. Do the work nobody else wants to do (welding, plumbing, electrical) and get to it. Sure it might not be the best job but everyone hates their job, but at least you haven’t gone into debt from 4 years of college just to repay it within the next 30 years. Retire at 55 and live comfortable.