Thread regarding Ford layoffs

If you're young- consider getting a Trade certification

If let go, currently engineer/IT/technical, consider becoming a skilled tradesman!! Skilled tradesmen are in severe shortage; a certified skill that can travel wherever you wish to live. They pay while you learn!

Nothing better than having an engineering degree/IT degree... now a skilled tradesman.
You can eventually start your own business!

I'm a retired engineer from a Big Three automotive company. I preach to anyone I know today-- become a certified electrician, welder, HVAC. You are paid as you learn/acquire certification. Then, you have a skill that goes anywhere!!

by Anonymous
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Comment! It's anonymous!

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I tell young people to go into the trades, get a business degree and start you own business.

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Post ID: @1ihs+1ilTH6HT

This LL can't find any help to do his remodel with all that bonus money he is getting from firing people.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1qvc+1ilTH6HT

Not a bad suggestion. I'm an Engineer, and have several friends who are Electricians, Plumbers, Lineman. All of them make about what I make, and have pensions, paid benefits etc. Not a great suggestion for older people, but younger people, absolutely.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1uzp+1ilTH6HT

If you are an engineer with experience and a degree, switching to skilled trades is a terrible idea

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1vnf+1ilTH6HT

Yea great advice. I’m 59 how the heck am I supposed to go into the trades now that I’m unemployed? This would have been helpful 30 years ago - today not so much.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1cik+1ilTH6HT

I have BS MS and a PHD and I will be leaving engineering.
American compies want outsource STEM also stop helping the with tax credit let them go under.

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1poi+1ilTH6HT

Honest question, what skilled trade can someone do that won't completely wear out their body by their mid to late 40s?

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1mqx+1ilTH6HT

You are basically saying…become a janitor or a plumber instead of an engineer….hopefully u don’t have any young kids that rely on you for advice.

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Post ID: @1haj+1ilTH6HT

Schoolcraft College in Livonia

by Anonymous
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Post ID: @1fwv+1ilTH6HT

Heck, become a garbage man. You will be more healthy,less stressed, and not have to put up with the toxic 40 year virus at Ford.

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Post ID: @1wws+1ilTH6HT

I currently work in an IT job. Can i work a full time job and start trading school? Whete would u recommend i start? I will do welder

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