JarJarDrinks
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Boys would just go to work for a tradesman and learn on the job. Esp. boys going to work in their fathers business.
Mar 1, 2026 1:50 PM
JarJarDrinks
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Boys would just go to work for a tradesman and learn on the job. Esp. boys going to work in their fathers business.
lindabelchersfirstcousin
And those kinds of trades will outlast the clanker
DJThuglifeSupreme
They need more funding and exposure too. We really need to bring back trade classes to high schools too
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
Fuck AI
rolliefingers
Trade schools were prominent in the 1950s. There are many trade schools well over 100 years old. Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology (Franklin Cummings Tech) is a private college in Boston, Massachusetts. It focuses on technology and trades programs and was established in 1908 with funds bequeathed in Benjamin Franklin's will. The North Bennet Street School in Boston, founded in 1881, is recognized as the oldest trade school in the United States.
RummageSaleBubbler
Also, safe from AI.
MoonMoon89
I went to a trade school for electricians, and a degree for electronics. Honestly, the degree has done more for me personally, but it is good to have options.
jtwood
mOSt of yOu wILl tEll mE I’m wRoNg
TheUnstoppableWampas
Good fucking luck. While I 100% agree, I have never found an activity that people engage in more frequently or more passionately than looking down on people.
conklin5
You know what AI can't do? Fix your plumbing. Can't pound nails over the internet.
noReallyIamPrincessBob
There are two kinds of people: ones that can read easily, and ones that can’t.
Having the option to learn a trade without a lot of bookwork is very important for some people, because they just can’t make it through university without a huge effort and a lot of help. There is just too much reading.
Trade school is very hands-on. And some trades you can still learn on-the-job, and just do testing modules of 6 weeks, to minimize classroom time.
azazyel
They don't? Seems like anyone I know that say they're going to one gets "That's a great idea" as a reply.
AzgarOgly
every school deserves as much respect, as well it educates their students
good tradesman does much more for the society than lots and lots of people holding a degree
aabcdort
My whole life I've been told over and over that the trades are often better than an academic degree and a regular career. There are some obvious exceptions in engineering and medical degrees though.
sascottsn
Ironic that this picture is either a mechanics or a machinist shop but the blurb doesn't mention that...
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
It’s AI. If you zoom in in the tools there’s a number of places where it’s just metal spaghetti.
sascottsn
@OP www.">son.edu">www.williamson.edu, www.sdsmt.edu, and that's just the school I went to (williamson), and the one I live near now.
Cmon, do a little bit of research.
JohnWickdidnothingwrong
Nobody's going to tell you that.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
Yeah no shit. By all means, trades DO deserve respect, but I do not have the same level reserved for a plumber as I do for a nurse. I think this is probably intended to shit on arts degrees and the like.
On a related note, while I have plenty of respect for a competent tradesperson, visiting any new construction housing shows exactly why that caveat is necessary. So much corner-cutting and shoddy work trying to crank out garbage as fast as possible. Maybe strip those grifters of licenses?
RemanentSky
In general, nah; where a person finds themselves in life is no less than 51% luck, so I wouldn't say someone deserves more respect for lucking into a career as a nurse or physician that someone doing their best as an apprentice plumber.
rolliefingers
Whereas in other professions like law or finance everything's always legit. You can tell because they have white collars.
WarThunderLeakedMySpecs
And there were multiple nurses who killed people intentionally. I’m sorry my character limit maxed out before addressing the sum total of human experience on this topic.
defaultname2000
The picture looks like ai slop in the details
noReallyIamPrincessBob
rolliefingers
I suppose you don't have 20 fingers and a set of tools for working on non-orientable shapes too, you fucking casual.
defaultname2000
must be the extra expensive professional tools
Ih8thisSoMuch
"Wrenches? Yeah we got wrenches. They's all the same size, and I'd like to see you TRY to get one around a bolt. But we gots em sure enough"
defaultname2000
Some of them might even work. Not realy well, not 15 degrees and that... but yeah, they got a lot of them special ones for screws with not-exactly-hex-heads.
JohnBigboote74
Well maybe it wouldn't look like that if the AI had gone to a trade school.
defaultname2000
nice
DukeNuke76
No, they are not the same. I went to both a trade school and, about 6 years later, I went and got my bachelors. While I agree that trade schools are very good for teaching that particular trade, They teach you nothing about anything else in the world and how things work. I easily got 5 times the education in the university that I got in the trade school and most everyone I know who has obtained both agree with that statement.
DukeNuke76
If you want a comparison just look at how many tradesmen sacrifice everything to send their own kids to college rather then back into the trade schools that they come from.
onemightyandstrong
There’s a reason that the college educated are less likely to fall for MAGA. It’s not because of their HVAC skills .
MAN9000
It's not that, the people are less valuable, but trade jobs gar less time to learn, far less investment to learn, and potential earnings are far less for high earning jobs. There are many exceptions, but generally, a trade job is worth less, although no less important to society.
My Dad and numerous family friends were/are in construction. They almost all ended up crippled or dead - things like accidentally cutting through their thigh with a skill saw or falling off a roof or ladders...
tcolomtns
I’ve done both, although it was just my finger getting cut with the circular saw and heal breaking from the fall
MAN9000
Please, no retirement, unless you're working for a big company.
However, with education getting so expensive, the advantages are reduced, but that is by design her in the US. They want more workers and less thinkers and leaders. And that's the main thing a college degree teaches you - how to analyze and think for yourself rather than follow.
rolliefingers
*fewer
69Voltage
Not entirely true about less pay. Journeymen lineman, electricians and plumbers can all expect to make huge salaries.
onemightyandstrong
Generally though
detectivepopcornmmmmm
@op so you grew up in the 50's and you're saying there was no vocational schools then? https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPWE1NzM3M2U1YmhnMzhxNHhoNmxrMndlNjllMjAyZmliaWpzb2Nva3d2MmkxcHgyaCZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/a6YHwnkn0ctOM/200w.webp
JarJarDrinks
None in my area, I am sure existed elsewhere
detectivepopcornmmmmm
"Vocational education was initiated with the passing of the Smith-Hughes Act in 1917, set up to reduce the reliance on foreign vocational schools, improve domestic wage earning capacity, reduce unemployment, and protect national security." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocational_education_in_the_United_States
detectivepopcornmmmmm
Also, you'd be in your mid 70s jarjar? Again, I call shenanigans.
TK421isAFK
He's just a mass reposting bot that has occasional human interaction to help keep up the illusion this is something other than a spam account.