Skilled Trades Boom: Why Gen Z is Swapping College for Toolbelts

A split screen showing a young female electrician apprentice working on an industrial control panel versus a male university student holding heavy textbooks on a college campus.

For decades, the standard playbook for the American Dream was non-negotiable: graduate high school, sign up for a mountain of student debt, get a four-year degree, and claim your cubicle. But a massive structural alignment is happening across the workforce. The corporate ladder has become overcrowded and vulnerable to AI disruptions, while the people who […]

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