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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by fumeux_fume on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:36PM (#43957801)
Haha, can't actually tell if this is satire. If it is, then bravo, sir! If it's not, then it's sad this poor father doesn't know his son has dropped out of high school to become welder who needs a ton of OT to scrape by in the Bay Area.
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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by milkshakes on Sunday May 11, 2025 @06:42PM (#43957840)
we'll see who's laughing in five years
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Re:High-School Shop Students Attract Skilled-Trades Job Offers by seanmcdirmid on Sunday May 11, 2025 @09:18PM (#43958772)
Welder employment market is very boom bust (people crowd it when work is well paid because welders are rare, and they leave it when work is not well paid because welders are plentiful), it could go either way in 5 years (programming is the same, but we haven’t had a bust since 2008, and then there was the 80s which was brutal for SWEs).
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