• cheers_queers@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    learning a trade should be more encouraged, you can make a shit ton of money (relatively) without the debt

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      2 hours ago

      This isn’t even true in a lot of places now. If you have a college nearby, expect your local trade school to have tuition similar to that college.

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      True, but that isn’t an option for everyone and we still need scientists and doctors and such.

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      True, but that might take you 10 years to get to a point where you’re no longer the new person and have skills to back it up.

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        that goes for any skilled labor. doesn’t make what i said any less true.

        also, there are paid apprenticeships with unions if you look.

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          4 hours ago

          lol tell that to my angry brothers who work in construction. they were so antiunion and it hurt them

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      17 hours ago

      Yes, but only because of shortage of people in that field, and good luck working in it as a disabled person! Most likely you’ll work under someone else, and that’s not like helping your father do gardening work, so there will be hard quotas and deadlines.