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Women Want Blue-Collar Jobs

September 13, 2024
Women are increasingly joining and thriving in blue-collar jobs.
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With tuition costs soaring and Americans facing nearly $2 trillion in student loan debt, many young people are questioning the value of a traditional college degree and are choosing vocational training...
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Dang it, it's kind of crazy.
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So apparently more women are skipping college to make six figures as
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electricians, car mechanics and truck drivers,
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brother. Well,,
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in my humble opinion,
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I don't think college is overrated.
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I said what I said,
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I said what I said.
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Well, for some professions,
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ok, I get it.
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You need it. But it's like,
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dude, like, that's not the only option I've seen really
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successful people, other shit.
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Oh, yeah, I mean,
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people are saying, you know,
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tuitions are getting crazy so they're looking to blue collar jobs.
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So, yeah, maybe it's the fact that,
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you know, Americans have up to $2 billion in student debt
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So maybe that's why there's a big switch up.
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Yeah, that could be it.
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And it's like, dude,
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like, even people that have attended college and not have a
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job, like, they don't even make six figures,
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they don't make six figures or they do something completely unrelated to
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what they went to school for.
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And I'm like, wait,
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you went to school for psychology and now you're,
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and it's ok but it's,
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but it's like, dude,
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like, definitely, you know,
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while the majority of workers in trades are men.
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A growing number of women are joining the club.
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Specifically, 11.6% of those who completed the apprenticeship program in the
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US were female. I honestly think that's pretty cool.
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They said f it like this is for women too.
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Like we're going to go and there's no gender attached to being
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an electrician, a plumber.
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You're a mechanic. My dad,
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my dad teaches me everything.
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Yeah. He taught me how to change a tire.
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He taught me, oh Mira Mi Prede Lucecita.
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This is what you need to check.
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Like so it's like it's not uncommon for women to know these
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things and to learn these jobs and to have an interest in
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them. No, I think it's bad ass.
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I think it's bad ass too.
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Imagine your ladies like I got,
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I got a baby.
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She like changing your time.
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I want to be passenger.
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Babe. I got it.
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Let me switch out the ac filter in the house for you
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babe. I'm like,
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oh you can reach that house.
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And also if you think about it,
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a lot of these jobs are A I proof there's some A
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I involved but ultimately,
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there's not going to be a robot that comes in 100% says
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Sr Luz means this like job security,
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but there's a little more job security in the sense that they're
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going to need more mechanics.
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They're going to need more,
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you know, plumbers,
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truck drivers and Oh,
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yeah. That's crazy.
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I mean, essentially I feel like you're on the same boat
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That idea of you have to go to college or you're
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failing life is kind of not a thing anymore.
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It's kind of fading a little bit.
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I remember in high school,
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if you, if people would ask you,
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what college are you going to?
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What college are you going to?
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And it's like, and if you weren't,
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like, oh, well,
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I'm not going to college and you were kind of seen as
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like, oh, you loser.
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I know. Not saying like,
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it's like, that's how people would perceive,
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oh, I'm not going to college.
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But at the end of the day,
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dude, I've seen people like,
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I kid you not,
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that were saying, oh,
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yeah, I'm not going to college.
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They're taking a different path.
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They started working right.
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When they got out of high school,
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they freaking own a house.
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They have a family,
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like, they're doing honestly better than some people that went to
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college. So I feel like college is kind of like sometimes
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people push it on you and it's not everyone's thing,
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you know, it's not the,
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not to talk down on it by all means,
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get graduated. It's still a huge accomplishment.
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But it's just like,
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yeah, I feel like,
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you know,
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we were in high school and I was like,
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oh, you don't have to figure it out.
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Yeah. It's like,
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bro, I'm 17.
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Like how do you want me to know whats gonna happen in
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the next 5, 10 years,
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whatever. So, there's not just one path,
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everyone has to follow,
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everyone has different paths,
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everyone lives their life.
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And like you said,
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homeboy has a house,
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it's a family, a kid,
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it's like they're doing something,
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right? Our home girl.
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In this case, you don't feel the pressure of needing to
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go to college, you know,
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the profession. And so,
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you know, you do,
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you, obviously a lot of people are going into the,
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what is it, blue collar job space and it's working out
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for them. So.
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Exactly. And then you don't have to,
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like, if you hire a woman plumber,
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I mean, you don't have to be worried about seeing their
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crack. That's true.
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Yeah. I mean,
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they, they were the little where they were waisted.
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Yeah, that's true.
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Good point, sister.