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JustAnotherGen

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31. I think he's a good start

Thu Dec 4, 2014, 12:18 PM

Dec 2014

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Someone posted a few days ago about blacksmithing being a good job - and it truly is. He's directly reached out to young women in Camden NJ (an apprenticeship program he has) that no one has told them -

You can get time and a half and travel the world and have a good life - if you forgo nail tech or hair dresser for welding.

His first one in that program - his 'fair haired girl' as I call her - will make as much this year as I made when I moved to NJ to work for a Telecom with a masters and 12 years experience - and she's in her early 20's. You couldn't have told that girl who would sleep in a bathtub with her mom 10 years ago to avoid gunshots -

That she would own her own home, speak two languages and had been to places like Belgium, Spain, Italy, France etc. etc. They also do restoration work and she's on track for her UNESCO certification. My husband's cert is what drove him to come here. Not a lot of folks are authorized to work on historical locations in the US - think iron work balconies in New Orleans that are several hundred years old.

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