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How to Earn $50,000 a Year Working With Your Hands
Why students should consider being skilled at a trade
Once upon a time in America, trade skills were taught in school.
Wood shop, metal shop, home economics were all part of daily school classes. Students were taught trades to work with their hands.
When did these classes begin disappearing and what took their place?
Today, these high paying trade jobs go unfulfilled, while high school graduates go off to college for four years seeking a bachelor’s degree in English literature or art. Or whatever.
Point being, that perhaps if they pursued a trade that they enjoy, they would become wage earners much more quickly.
Due your due diligence and search the internet to see which skilled trade jobs pay the most. Search on Google under “ learning a trade in high school.”
Many of these jobs have a very high hourly wage, which equals out to six figures a year.
Using Seattle as an example, there’s construction going on there and employers are needing skilled iron workers. Some students who attend trade schools can also get on the job training and be paid for it. Good money and benefits. Some of these jobs pay over $28.00 an hour. and as skills and experience…
