‘Yeah, No. It’s Low Wages,’ A Worker Responds To Whether The Skilled Labor Shortage Is Just Because Everyone Was ‘Told To Go To College’

For years, people discussed the reason for the lack of sufficient number of skilled workers to fill all open commercial jobs in the United States in the Reddit thread this week on R/Jobs asking a simple question: Is it a lack of skilled labor because everyone was told to go to college?

Many commentators said yes, the college boiled was intense. One user recalls, “HS was graduated in 2006. Anything was drawn outside the kidney pipeline as a bad idea for me. Talk about commercial work programs and trainees as if it were employment/fraud,” a user recalls.

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Another said, “As a graduate in 2007, all that we were told in school is to go to college. Trading has not been discussed at all.”

But this is just one part of the mystery. Many have pointed out that skilled employment jobs come with real negatives: punishing work physically, inconsistent hours, and payment that often does not reflect the losses it causes on the body.

A user shared, “He worked in 5 years trading outside the college. Detained my back and wrist. Do you have a comfortable office design function now … I will never return.”

The most formulated comments came from a user who said: “People hear” only to join trade, you will make 6 numbers “and do not realize your first few years that you do not do much, and Al -Saais is difficult, and the watches are brutal.” They added, “You will look 50 in 40 and 75 in 55 years. Your knees, back and hands will be 50 a disaster.”

He directed: This ordinary American couple has provided a lot of money for retirement – How to compare?

Others repeated it. One of them said that the risk of infection is much worse than it was in the office’s job: “It is not a matter of, but the issue of Matthew, depending on the severity of your job, and the neglect of others around you.”

The repeated topic was that employers often blame “lack of employment” when they don’t want to pay better. One of the users wrote: “There is no shortage of skilled workers. Only an abundance of the resumption of agriculture.” “Employers carry the ability to frame the labor market the way they see suitable.”

Another added that their company handed over half of the maintenance staff, maintained production with forced additional work, then claimed that it “could not find any skilled work.”