booja@booja.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months agoIt's even harder for young people to find jobs, and the unemployment rate proves itwww.cbc.caexternal-linkmessage-square7fedilinkarrow-up153
arrow-up153external-linkIt's even harder for young people to find jobs, and the unemployment rate proves itwww.cbc.cabooja@booja.ca to Canada@lemmy.ca · 8 months agomessage-square7fedilink
minus-squareLoamImprovement@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoProbably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.
minus-squarecorsicanguppy@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoMy wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory. Carpentry. He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week. That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.
Probably doesn’t help that, at the very least, there’s a stigma about those jobs not being able to provide a comfortable living. I know I’d sweep floors if it paid $50 an hour.
My wife’s father worked carpentry in a factory.
Carpentry.
He has a retirement and a decent pension. He ate shit for his 30 years, and now he can putter in his woodshop all week.
That’s last-gen. It’s not so long ago that the good life was still within reach. It can be again.