Students are Choosing a Life of Education in the Trades Over a Life Spent Accumulating Student Loan Debt Amid Rising Costs of College
Anyone who wakes up before 5 am and finds themselves at a gas station by 6 am has likely observed a growing number of 20-somethings standing in line buying energy drinks, cigarettes, and lottery tickets.
Typically, they seem happy as if they have little to worry about…save the heat of the day and the status of their outdoor toilet. The folks in this queue represent a most important shift in the educational and social mobility landscape…they are the rising wave of tradespeople.
Rising costs associated with college education and the diminishing return on investment for many degrees are significant factors in this shift.
Observations like this align with a trend highlighted in a Wall Street Journal article by Te-Ping Chen, which reports a growing number of folks from Gen-Z are entering some form of trade school.
