Millennials Are Choosing Blue-Collar Jobs Over College
And a growing number of other brainy millennials are following this path.
New York Post reports.
Why millennials are forgoing college for blue-collar jobs
Washington Mayancela decided he wanted his life to be degree free.
He joins legions of well-schooled millennials bucking the trend of college, taking often dirty but well-paid blue-collar jobs.
Coming out of the shadow of the Great Recession, once plentiful white-collar jobs are still scarce, many replaced by lower-paid service work.
Mayancela, 20, decided two years ago to start his apprenticeship as a steamfitter.
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College is filled with so many useless majors that opting for alternatives, which will result in being employed, is a much better option.
One can make a very handsome living in the blue collar trades.
Any enterprising young man with mechanical aptitude can easily make $6-figures repairing and servicing the Lexuses, Mercedeses, and Range Rovers that the Indian, Iranian, Asian, female, and black doctors, engineers, and other professionals buy with the pay they earn at companies that no longer hire white males.