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7/2/2025, 9:44:12 AM
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>there are still job openings that people can work into if you did trade school
I didn't do trade school because I've never been mechanically gifted or even interested in stuff like cars or building PCs that serve as a great baseline for careers like that. It actually deeply bothers me on an existential level given I come from a working class family (both my Dad and Grandpa were union construction workers and my Grandpa lives off his union pension, while my Dad's brother is a train engineer for BNSF and my Dad's closest cousin maintains telescopes and other infrastructure at Lowell Observatory) and grew up in very working class parts of Minnesota where machinists and welders were common jobs. I even did a metals class throughout high school, where I barely passed and got consistent low Ds despite my best efforts. That being said, fully committing to a tradie path despite this and finding a job as a welder in Australia is sort of a fantasy of mine even if I know it's extremely unlikely or plausible.
>it's a great place to meet people who you could collaborate with in the future
I went there from 2021-24 and given a majority of my classes and all my important ones there were online I barely met anyone and can't remember any of them by name or even have contact info for them. All the friends and people I met/were close with during that time were when I was a wagie at my fast food job and either reconnected with old High School friends or met new friends flipping burgers and making ice cream because I was stuck there whenever I wasn't at school or church.
>you seem to have a good relationship with them, so it's something you could plan together
The problem is I just don't see it happening because of the fact that cost of living just keeps getting worse no matter what I would do. I'm not a richfag or from a rich family, so they have limits on how much they can give me for school (doesn't help that my young Brother is entering high school and soon college).
>there are still job openings that people can work into if you did trade school
I didn't do trade school because I've never been mechanically gifted or even interested in stuff like cars or building PCs that serve as a great baseline for careers like that. It actually deeply bothers me on an existential level given I come from a working class family (both my Dad and Grandpa were union construction workers and my Grandpa lives off his union pension, while my Dad's brother is a train engineer for BNSF and my Dad's closest cousin maintains telescopes and other infrastructure at Lowell Observatory) and grew up in very working class parts of Minnesota where machinists and welders were common jobs. I even did a metals class throughout high school, where I barely passed and got consistent low Ds despite my best efforts. That being said, fully committing to a tradie path despite this and finding a job as a welder in Australia is sort of a fantasy of mine even if I know it's extremely unlikely or plausible.
>it's a great place to meet people who you could collaborate with in the future
I went there from 2021-24 and given a majority of my classes and all my important ones there were online I barely met anyone and can't remember any of them by name or even have contact info for them. All the friends and people I met/were close with during that time were when I was a wagie at my fast food job and either reconnected with old High School friends or met new friends flipping burgers and making ice cream because I was stuck there whenever I wasn't at school or church.
>you seem to have a good relationship with them, so it's something you could plan together
The problem is I just don't see it happening because of the fact that cost of living just keeps getting worse no matter what I would do. I'm not a richfag or from a rich family, so they have limits on how much they can give me for school (doesn't help that my young Brother is entering high school and soon college).
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