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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by dagw on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @08:54AM (#12254138)
and their jobs will never be offshored

Don't know about the US, but in much of Europe plumbing has definitely been 'offshored' in the sense that much of the work is done by non-locals brought in short term.

Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by gaius on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:21AM (#12254267)
Everyone "learning to code" instead is probably why! If I were giving career advice to any young person now, I would definitely tell them plumbing or a similar trade. As we say in Yorkshire "where there's muck there's brass".
Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by amag on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:49AM (#12254842)
I always thought "where there's brass there's brass".