The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
A lot of these threads devolve into &quot;have you tried paying more&quot; but I&#x27;d also like to highlight &quot;have you actually tried telling Gen Z that&quot;. I&#x27;m 35, from basically as early as I can remember until sophmore year of college I was told constantly by every adult (and I mean every adult not just the ones that had degrees) in my life to go to college, get a degree, any degree. So yeah I went to college. It was aggressively marketed to me for over a decade and that affected my aspirations.<p>Doesn&#x27;t help either I&#x27;m sure that unions, the organizations willing&#x2F;capable of marketing-to, teaching&#x2F;training people and giving them some sense of camaraderie, have been attacked for decades as being variously inefficient to straight evil.