Reasons to Stop Ignoring the Skills Gap

Re:Reasons to Stop Ignoring the Skills Gap by gravypod on Monday September 05, 2016 @09:51AM (#12430283)

I really wish trade schools weren't dying in America. They're ab affordable way for real people to earn a good living without as huge an investment.

I wish more fields were taught in trade schools rather then colleges. Ex: software engineering, writing, art, some other engineerings.

Things that are t centered around academia, in my opinion, should be considered trades. If they where we'd all be saving a lot of time and money.

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Re:Reasons to Stop Ignoring the Skills Gap by kbredemeier on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @07:25PM (#12439978)

I agree with you. I went to college and graduated with a degree, but didn't really have enough real world experience to know what I wanted to do as a career. Skip ahead five years and I finally found a similar equivalent to a software engineering trade school, Holberton School[1] in SF. I didn't have the money to go back to school and didn't want to take out loans, and this school was my saving grace. I do wish things like this existed for other vocations as well though.

[1] https://www.holbertonschool.com

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