Why do millennials refuse to learn a trade instead of getting

>>128598830
>implying that wouldn't just create a different time line where /pol/ criticizes millennials for not going to college
>implying the same job market saturation occurring now wouldn't happen if there was just a rapid shift to trades

>>128598830
Interesting about DC...

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>>128598830
Tfw no degree and make 55k a year with healthcare for me and wife paid for by my company.

I'd rather not destroy my body by the age of 45

Show me a trade that doesn't fuck up my body in the long run

>>128601670
>>128602142
anyone where you can start your own business and leave the grunt work to younger people

Because anybody born from 85 onward was taught that only university education leads to anything successful.

>>128601670
>>128602142
Sitting at a desk all day is infinitely worse
t. /fit/

>>128601670

I know some guys in my neighborhood who work trades, they are in their 40s and 50s, need pain killers to make it through the day, and drink to kill the pain too. seems rough. I like my office job.

>>128602142
Plumbing and commercial welding are pretty low impact on your health

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>>128598830
>Got to union office of ______.
>Pay 25$-50$ to take a test to see if you can be a union member and go through their apprenticeship program.
>Ask lady at counter how many people show up over the weekend, "your number (flips through pages) 1,250".
>WOW, ask how many positions open, "7 she says".
>Come to pol, "why dont people learn a trade".
OP is a faggot, ive applies at bricklayers, electrician, operating engineers, and elevator unions, sheet metal worker, and each one was exactly as described above
>Its always some members kid, some ex-military fag, or some nigger/women who gets the spot.
>Those Trade Schools where you pay 20-50 grand to learn the trade dont work because the unions dont recognize the work done only THEIR apprenticeship training. So you pay a shitload to learn a trade, only to be non-union working for $15 an hour.

>>128601578
Doing what?

>median income barely above poverty level for massive chunks of the country
It's like there's something wrong with the economy or something.

>>128599846
lol... but millennials are fucked

>>128604349
Yep, unions are literally cancer

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>>128598830
>be me
>dad dies when 15
>immediately quit school and get a full time job
>give my mom all my money to help with bills
>work construction jobs
>get taught how to weld
>become a traveling industrial pipe welder
>make more money than I know what to do with
>will pay off my first house when I turn 30
>all this while being literal dumbfuck that can't into long division because only have a 9th grade education
>mfw I hear people my age talking about how they are enslaved to the student loan Jew

Who /bluecollar/ master race here? You college fags are welcome for making your existence possible.