"Today’s young people, moreover, tend to regard craft work—plumbing, masonry, and carpentry, for instance—as unfashionable and dead-end, no doubt because they’ve been instructed to aspire to college. 'People go to college not because they want to but because their parents tell them that’s the thing to do,' says Jeff Kirk, manager of human relations at Kaiser Aluminum’s plant in Heath, Ohio. 'Kids need to become aware of the reality that much of what they learn in school is not really needed in the workplace. They don’t realize a pipe fitter makes three times as much as a social worker.'"
As excerpted from Joel Kotkin's essay about the growing
shortage of high-skilled manufacturing labor and the problem
it is, or soonwill be, presenting to the re-birth of American
manufacturing. Full essay is here.
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