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Vermont needs more tradespeople. Is Gen Z the solution?www.vermontpublic.org/show/vermont-edition/2025-04-07/vermont-needs-more-tradespeople-is-gen-z-the-solution
263 sats \ 3 comments \ @BlokchainB 18 Apr Construction_and_Engineering
TL:DR
Programs for careers like welding, construction, and automotive tech are in hot demand. The Central Vermont Career Center, a career technical school in Barre, has more applicants than they have space to admit.` A recent report by Vermont Public found that enrollment is up statewide at most of Vermont’s 17 career and technical education centers. It’s a national trend, and it’s earned Gen Z the nickname “The Toolbelt Generation.”
We talk with CVCC's director Jody Emerson and Nick Cantrick, a construction technology instructor at the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury, about their students' career opportunities.
We also discuss current labor needs in Vermont with Richard Wobby, Executive Vice President at the Associated General Contractors of Vermont, and Kendal Smith, Deputy Commissioner at the Vermont Department of Labor.

My Thoughts 💭

If the wages are high enough the labor will come. Gen Z are looking for high skilled manual labor jobs at a high rate in this state. Hopefully this is a trend.
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135 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 15h
Why Mr Trump doesn't speak more about the 'skills mismatch' in the United States... is beyond me.
Sure manufacturing jobs and plants and trade restrictions and all that... but there are skills shortages already with unfilled jobs. Why not focus on that first?
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170 sats \ 0 replies \ @kurszusz 23h
Generation Z has started to realize that it is possible to earn well by doing physical work (as a professional), not just behind a computer as an IT professional. For example, in our country, an electrician (or even a carpenter) if he is good at his profession, earns more than an IT professional. I also see this as a trend, and a clearly visible trend is starting to emerge.
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218 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 18 Apr
What and work with their hands and not a keyboard and monitor in the comfort of their own home? Manual labor is something that has been militated against in the government schools for at least since the ‘70s. Why would anybody go against all of the college-bound, everyone has a right to go to college and only college-educated have high paying jobs indoctrination? This has been the end goal of the teacher’s unions and government school advisors for over 50 years. Do the latest generations have any desire, let alone thoughts to work with their hands and backs? Smart ones knew that there were lots of opportunities out there for anybody that would take them up in many of the manual trades. BTW, they are higher paying than barista at Starbucks, too.
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