To bad they don't pay for crap and your job is still unstable.
As someone in the trades, it sure seems to me that 99.9% of people harping on about trades and needing trade workers and such have never worked in the trades, know nothing about the work environment most trade workers are in, and continuously and falsely claim how great their pay is as they take a single ghost job posting about a plumber in the center of Manhattan and pretend that represents the average plumber.
If trades are so great, why aren't all the people harping on about trade jobs and how great they are working in trades themselves? Trades are boom-bust cycle, over worked, under paid, and take a straight 20 years off your lifespan. How much money would you expect someone to give you in order to take a decade or two off your lifespan and lower your quality of life for your last decade? Certainly not the .50 cent raise you get over working in at a fast food place.
It's not specified how long the apprenticeships last or what qualifications you need.
But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hour west, from North Adams, Mass., to Albany, New York. And you have to stand eight hours a day, and half of people drop out of the apprenticeship for whatever reason.
The fact is that an artistically skilled person in the Northeast could find better-paying, less physically taxing, and probably more stable work.
more absurdity: I aprenticed with old time masters in more than one trade, and have worked in and around many other trades, and have taken on aprentices(officialy) in trades that I am unpapered in, have requests from trade schools to take on more aprentices, but, BUT, I cant work officialy in those trades, because I am unpapered, and cant get insurance, without going to trade school, and doing an aprenticship first.
To bad they don't pay for crap and your job is still unstable.
As someone in the trades, it sure seems to me that 99.9% of people harping on about trades and needing trade workers and such have never worked in the trades, know nothing about the work environment most trade workers are in, and continuously and falsely claim how great their pay is as they take a single ghost job posting about a plumber in the center of Manhattan and pretend that represents the average plumber.
If trades are so great, why aren't all the people harping on about trade jobs and how great they are working in trades themselves? Trades are boom-bust cycle, over worked, under paid, and take a straight 20 years off your lifespan. How much money would you expect someone to give you in order to take a decade or two off your lifespan and lower your quality of life for your last decade? Certainly not the .50 cent raise you get over working in at a fast food place.
If only the apprenticeships to do them paid well enough. Perhaps a subsidy to maintain potentially forgotten crafts and skills.
Reading Craft land by James Fox, there are many skills we need but we can't seem to fund to maintain.
It's not specified how long the apprenticeships last or what qualifications you need.
But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hour west, from North Adams, Mass., to Albany, New York. And you have to stand eight hours a day, and half of people drop out of the apprenticeship for whatever reason.
The fact is that an artistically skilled person in the Northeast could find better-paying, less physically taxing, and probably more stable work.
more absurdity: I aprenticed with old time masters in more than one trade, and have worked in and around many other trades, and have taken on aprentices(officialy) in trades that I am unpapered in, have requests from trade schools to take on more aprentices, but, BUT, I cant work officialy in those trades, because I am unpapered, and cant get insurance, without going to trade school, and doing an aprenticship first.
truely absurd that an article about "skilled trade jobs" bieng unfillable, is pay walled
Right, because the Wall Street Journal has put itself out there as the premier trade journal?