NBC/Today: Teens enter vocational school, come out with jobs, no debt

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6. Most of todays machining jobs are pretty technically demanding

From the article:

Instead of offering dark and dusty shops full of woodworking or table saws, many vocational schools are now full of state-of-the art machines and computers that teach students code, programming and design skills.

I've visited many CNC (Computer Numeric Controlled) machine shops. In some cases, the workers sitting at the machines have B.S. degrees in Engineering. That's how complex some of the programming of these machines has become. This is not the vo-tech of previous generations.

IMO, many of these kids will ultimately end up in collegiate during their careers to either formally study engineering, or (more commonly) to take managerial and business classes to manage workers. Some won't, and if you can make a career out of making bar stock into finely machined widgets, I think that's cool.