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Getting a degree? But that’s what started the problem in the first place!
Apprenticeships or career tech certificates can help.
I’m a journey level worker and I’m back in school. Construction has been recession level for at least a couple years in my area and it’s getting worse fast. They’re purging anyone female or brown from the unions in my area because that’s DEI. We’ve had incidents of union officers threatening to lynch black apprentices and hanging nooses, I’ve seen female apprentices complain about SA and getting blackballed. It’s back to the good ol boy system full force in construction right now. I’d say 90% of these high paid white nepo baby construction guys are rabid Trump supporters. It’s full FBI friends, brothers and in-laws only and your tax dollars pay for these apprenticeships and a lot of projects these guys pull six figures on so telling people to go into an apprenticeship is just a racist dog whistle unless they’re related to someone
Who’s doing all the work? As a homeowner, I’ve definitely seen stereotypes in action for work I’ve had done. Replacing my roof was typical. All white guys selling me on how wonderful it’ll be. But it was a crew of Hispanics that came out to do the work, and they hustled like no ones business. I know who I’d trust to get a job done.
Actually similar deal for my electrician. I went through several companies of delays and excessive fees for truck rolls, upselling, etc. but I found this local guy who happens to be Hispanic, who is very responsive, cheaper, and does an outstanding job
I know who to trust to give me a good deal, excellent service, great response, and they’re not the white glad-handlers. I understand good work is not a racial characteristic but perhaps the extra hurdles to the business make it so. I would never claim the white guts can’t do the work but if you’re firing in a racial manner, how the heck do you have enough people to get the job done? And yes I’m a white guy who has always valued competent hard work in myself and others
This is all corporate tech stuff anyhow. Inflating an already inflated market destined to be whittled down by AI is probably one of the most short term goals iv ever heard
the worth of a degree is highly correlated to the field of study and the institution of study.
a lot of people get bogus degrees from bogus fields of study and are shocked they can't get productive high-paying employment...
The job market is in the shitter and you are blaming the people trying to find jobs and assuming they can't because they got a "bogus degree"... That's a very boomer response of you.
job market for what exactly? what jobs are they trying to find exactly?
job market is fine for some professions, shit for others. yeah for tech it's shit because they massive overhired during the pandemic and are still oversupplied with too many shitty coders. for nursing you can make a killing if you are willing to travel nurse or get yourself into certain specialties.
the devil is in the details. there is no generalized job market where average joe can just get a 100K job. all those jobs requires specialized degrees, experience, and connections.
industries come and go and oftentimes you have to move with the times and the geography. my brother has been unemployed for 5 years... but it's because he's a stupid ass who refuses to move or take a job he thinks he is 'below' him. and every employer can see that attitude he has and his inflexible arrogance and why would they want such a person on their team?
many people are their own worst enemy when it comes to employment.