University's have some kind of barrier about money and what they do behind the academic curtain. There is an idea that getting everyone to go to collage would make for higher wages and a better way of life.
The most popular major is Business. Followed by Social Sciences: (anthropology, economics, geography, sociology and political science).
So where do you go to become a tool and die maker? How about a sheet metal worker? A machinist? Someone who has the ability to take something on a drawing and make it a practical reality?
It takes about the same time to become a doctor as to become a tool and die maker. There are much fewer grants and scholorships available for this vocation and you really need a certain degree of talent.
Education is the key to the future, but you need to say the correct education.
I am seeing a time when your artisan craftsmen are going to demand the highest salary.
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I get fed up with all the talk about everyone going to college. I don't think college is right for everyone and a lot of kids are sold on the idea that if they don't go to college they are somehow not successful. I know tons of friends who spent lots of money getting the wrong type of education for them. I'm proud of the tradesmen in our family and for the practical skills that they have. It was eye-opening for me to visit all the Portland area trade schools when I worked with the Environmental Youth corp. The trades and technical jobs really do need to be better marketed to young people as honest, good-paying jobs that are needed in society.
The school my sister & I attended in Germany was a trade school. We were only there for the experience, but the other girls were there to learn Pre-School Teacher/Day care instructor, 'Hauswirtschaft' and I can't recall the other one.
Hauswirtschaft translates directly as Home Economist, but it was intended to get you a job in a hotel or inn, doing the cooking, cleaning, whatever guest services.
It took two years & you lived in the dorms. This type of education was available to those students who didn't score very high on their academic testing by the time they were 14.
So most of these girls could enter the workforce and start contributing to society at 16.
Tradesman already command pretty decent salaries. 6 figures is not uncommon for people with various trade skills such as heavy machine operators or electricians.
Attach trade schools to big universities so the athletes that may not be interested in a business degree can still play and learn a trade, maybe some GE as well
It only takes one to two years to become a tool and die maker, then about three years as an apprentice.
http://www.careers.iptv.org/people_detail.cfm?pplID=34&occID=36
Most doctorates require seven to eight years of higher education.
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