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Enrollment at trade schools is expected to grow

(finance.yahoo.com)
64 points m-hodges | 1 comments | 30 Aug 25 22:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.216s | source
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tombert ◴[30 Aug 25 23:38 UTC] No.45078978[source]▶
I've been trying to convince my brother-in-law (who works at a convenience store) to consider trade school for years now, in no small part because I think a lot of the jobs you go to trade school for are safe from automation.

For reasons kind of unclear to me, it seems like trade schools have been kind of stigmatized, as somehow "lesser" than university. I don't completely understand why that is; the world needs welders and AC technicians and Practical Nurses much more than we need more software engineers working at a Silicon Valley startup.

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1. righthand ◴[31 Aug 25 01:05 UTC] No.45079429[source]▶
It’s because we built a society that prides clever “get rich quick” ideas over pride in having a job. We have lots of factory and manufacturing jobs in Usa but no one wants to work the long hours for pretty decent pay when they can vibe code for marketing companies and not work really at all.