I hate to say it, but there are also issues with being able to do breadwinner type jobs and the fact that even training for them is not as common as it should be in many of our schools. Our young men probably ought to learn some of the real man jobs which others just plain can't do. I remember years ago leaving a sales job with its bullshit office politics and clients who always preferred to deal with the blonde chick with big tits, rather than the "ex-Marine guy" even though I had been hired on the military pedigree sort of by on of Marcinko's old team members. It was not the bosses, and far as I know

In my book, the breadwinner jobs in trades are the kinds of things that a lot of people CANNOT do. I just removed myself from a job that unfortunately got to that level and hopefully did not screw me up with the company, but it involved running a scissor lift up to maximum height to work on electrical boxes in the ceiling of a big box store. For some reason I had been thinking Home Depot, it turned out to be one of the electronics stores. So with very little experience on that piece of equipment, I needed to be able to maneuver the machine with no margin of error close to its maximum extension height (around 30 feet) around shelves and display cases stocked with thousands of dollars of electronics, and if I crash, its on my dime. That, and those things get mighty wobbly with a guy my weight on one the higher it goes, with the other guys doing the monkey trick daredevel thing to get at some of the cables and boxes crammed around beams in odd places before the shelves and displays had been installed.

I got to thinking through my education, and can't think of a single course in a single high school or even many of the junior colleges where they went over how to run those machines, and while I figured out the basic controls pretty quickly, it was straight to the precision driving and gutsy stuff which screwed with my equilibrium. You look at the new machines out there, or even the old machines, and nobody wants to risk new equipment on training anyone, so the younger people are just plain screwed. I was on a job where they just assumed I knew that stuff because of my age, but there are limits to "fake it until you make it" which tend to shake out three stories up on an 11 hour night shift.