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**Sironimoll** · 12-01-2007, 02:42 PM

It takes about 200 hours of vocational school to become certified in wielding, plumbing, auto/auto body- repair, home/industrial electricity ect were you’ll make about $20.oo an hour…
If your all grown up, take up wielding…
The public schools are pulling something in the “everyone must go to college” thing. Not everyone was meant to and more then half drop ou Yeah there was a time in America where you could get vocational training work in a factory producing goods and make enough for your family. Welding, construction, electricians these are the leftover jobs from when America was an industrial power. However thanks to the "free market" people out there who all decided that they didn't want to pay living wages to Americans, those jobs are now overseas. It's NOT a coincidence that the fall of the industrial union happens at the exact rate that college becomes increasingly the only option for people who don't want to scrape by for a living. There are exceptions of course but they are VERY rare and auto repair, Im sorry, there aren't enough jobs for that.

12-01-2007, 02:42 PM	#39
Sironimoll Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 462 Senior Member	It takes about 200 hours of vocational school to become certified in wielding, plumbing, auto/auto body- repair, home/industrial electricity ect were you’ll make about $20.oo an hour… If your all grown up, take up wielding… The public schools are pulling something in the “everyone must go to college” thing. Not everyone was meant to and more then half drop ou Yeah there was a time in America where you could get vocational training work in a factory producing goods and make enough for your family. Welding, construction, electricians these are the leftover jobs from when America was an industrial power. However thanks to the "free market" people out there who all decided that they didn't want to pay living wages to Americans, those jobs are now overseas. It's NOT a coincidence that the fall of the industrial union happens at the exact rate that college becomes increasingly the only option for people who don't want to scrape by for a living. There are exceptions of course but they are VERY rare and auto repair, Im sorry, there aren't enough jobs for that.
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