Timing a market change is inherently even more risky. Think about all of the students in the past 10 years who chose compsci not because they enjoyed it but because of the lucrative salaries. Now, those without the passion or knowhow can't pass an increasingly higher bar in an increasingly difficult market.
The subject of the article, and fellow social media participants, are hedging a bet that manual trade jobs will be safe forever, at the cost of a salary cut and inflicting physical damage to the body. All to do a trade that perhaps doesn't even interest them that much. Insecurity, maybe even arrogance, is driving these people outside of the white collar workforce and I think they will get burned for their decision in the long run. Because there really is no guarantee that these physical jobs will be safe.
The other subtext is that white collars should take a salary cut to work in a different field. And who absorbs the difference in salary that is no longer being paid out? No one that is the subject of this article.
techblueberry 2 hours ago [-]
I don’t want to assume I understand the balance here, but what percentage of trade work is dependent on a strong economy? I imagine some industrial jobs are fairly immune to economic factors, but I imagine there is tons of work in the residential space that ebbs and flows.
techblueberry 2 hours ago [-]
Look, I would love if this were true, but when digging into the data, it doesn’t seem to me like the promise of blue collar work matches the reality. Anyone have a good objective breakdown telling me I’m wrong?
This feels like a heavily political/ideological narrative designed to say both: see the economy isn’t terrible, you’re just doing it wrong, and, we could solve the rural-urban red-blue political divide with this one simple trick of realizing that the rural elite college people are wrong and real America gets it.
I would love this to be true! Really! It just seems like wishful thinking.
AndrewKemendo 2 hours ago [-]
Ah yes, the search for meaning filtered through individual transactional fulfillment.
The perennial, monotonous discussion about “what gives us meaning” has been so exhausted at this point as to be rendered meaningless.
You can safely ignore anyone that has philosophical musings that are temporal in context.
datameta 2 hours ago [-]
I'm struggling to extract meaning or message from your last sentence.
AndrewKemendo 1 hours ago [-]
Stated simply: Ignore any philosophy or ideology that fails at universal-infinite timescales
Basically if someone is using the “current” state of the world as the comparative model for existential fulfillment then it’s not even a model, it’s a conclusion based on a point sample
In the case of this article, “Everyone should learn to code” was never correct and nor is “everyone should learn a craft”
It fundamentally overfits a narrow, highly available novel concept, rooted in the epistemology of “individual fulfillment” in the context of the current state of the world
Therefore in the implied context of the existential question “what should I do with my life?” , which is something that has been asked in every period that humans and proto-humans have lived, it’s totally ignorant to think that we can reduce it to the intersection of global transactions and individual contributions to such.
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The subject of the article, and fellow social media participants, are hedging a bet that manual trade jobs will be safe forever, at the cost of a salary cut and inflicting physical damage to the body. All to do a trade that perhaps doesn't even interest them that much. Insecurity, maybe even arrogance, is driving these people outside of the white collar workforce and I think they will get burned for their decision in the long run. Because there really is no guarantee that these physical jobs will be safe.
The other subtext is that white collars should take a salary cut to work in a different field. And who absorbs the difference in salary that is no longer being paid out? No one that is the subject of this article.
This feels like a heavily political/ideological narrative designed to say both: see the economy isn’t terrible, you’re just doing it wrong, and, we could solve the rural-urban red-blue political divide with this one simple trick of realizing that the rural elite college people are wrong and real America gets it.
I would love this to be true! Really! It just seems like wishful thinking.
The perennial, monotonous discussion about “what gives us meaning” has been so exhausted at this point as to be rendered meaningless.
You can safely ignore anyone that has philosophical musings that are temporal in context.
Basically if someone is using the “current” state of the world as the comparative model for existential fulfillment then it’s not even a model, it’s a conclusion based on a point sample
In the case of this article, “Everyone should learn to code” was never correct and nor is “everyone should learn a craft”
It fundamentally overfits a narrow, highly available novel concept, rooted in the epistemology of “individual fulfillment” in the context of the current state of the world
Therefore in the implied context of the existential question “what should I do with my life?” , which is something that has been asked in every period that humans and proto-humans have lived, it’s totally ignorant to think that we can reduce it to the intersection of global transactions and individual contributions to such.