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Originally Posted by Bruces
You are dead wrong on the trades going the way of the dinosaur ,very much in demand , paying huge money ,it couldn’t be a better time for a kid to take up a trade or a veteran to cash in before retirement .
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I suspect he had a little sarcasm going on when he said the trades were dying. As an electro-mechanical technician my pay has doubled since I first bought my first Hawk in 2017.
You are right, however. The trades will never die, and the demand is so high that pay scales have come up to correct the imbalance and to attract people to those jobs. There has been a big influx of younger people into many professions. Diesel/Truck mechanics is one area that was desperate for people and it saw pay rates skyrocket over the last few years. I have seen entry level positions in that field starting at 25 an hour, and offering tuition reimbursement for classes and paid certification testing. There are even shops offering to provide substantial tool budgets just to get people in the door.
I did the youtube thing for a little while, and I even started to build a good following. On paper it sounds great, but the reality is that, to be successful it requires a LOT of work. Many of these younger kids don't see that side of it. It looks easy on the surface, record yourself doing things and upload it. What they never see is that many of the extremely successful channels out there have a whole team of people behind the scenes. They are proper production companies.