How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation

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4. The plumbing trade was very good to me.

I held every job starting as ditch digger, apprentice, advancing to journeyman, master, educator, estimator, superintendent and business owner in twelve years. I made a good solid middle-class income for my family and I am now comfortably retired. All of the years of physical activity left me in much better physical shape than many of my classmates who worked in offices all of their working lives. Of course, it is not for everyone, but I was never ashamed of my trade career and I held my own with the people who chose "professional" jobs. I am glad that young people are not avoiding the trades like they were a plague.