I have several nephews that are between 18-23 age. It&#x27;s pretty surprising the amount of opportunity they have to get into the workplace and just are not motivated.<p>Getting into a skilled trade is a great career path. I have a co-worker whose son went to vo-tech for welding, got hired by one of the largest construction companies (they&#x27;re building the USA Bank Stadium in Minneapolis) and is now making close to 50K, with no kids and he&#x27;s not married, so he&#x27;s pretty set.<p>When I talk with my nephews, they complain they&#x27;re broke and can&#x27;t move out from their families house, but don&#x27;t want to go to a coding boot camp, or go to a Vo-Tech and learn a trade. They just don&#x27;t see either as a very &quot;glamorous&quot; career, so they reject it out of hand - which is puzzling. So they work several part time jobs, live at home and have no &quot;launch date&quot; to either go to a 4 year school, or get into something that would give them a solid career path.<p>I&#x27;d also like to point out, its <i>always</i> been tough for young kids to get into the job market without college degrees. Even if you were learning a trade, it took years to go from apprentice to journeyman to master. Even when I was in college (mid aughts) I had many friends who didn&#x27;t go to college and couldn&#x27;t get a whiff of stable corporate gig. They would always go interview and the guy would say, &quot;You have a great resume, you&#x27;d probably do well here, but you need a 4 year degree. Go get your degree and I&#x27;ll hire you immediately.&quot; They were relegated to jumping around between small mom and pop shops that didn&#x27;t have the stability of a larger corporation. Every couple of years they were on the move.