Specialization is increasing in our society and so many of us know who to only do one part of the assembly process.
But some of the wanting to get your hands dirty has been sabotaged, working on cars? Few have the proper testing equipment in their garage for new models & I think auto companies want to discourage home mechanics, to increase service sales.
For the people who decide to skip college or even go into the manual trades after college, it can be rewarding. The contractor who updated our bathrooms is having a very good year and will make more than me.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
The degree seems to have become a meaningless necessity. In the tech world bythe time you'vegot a degree orcertification the wave has moved past you. Many, many jobs today would be better servedby rhe old master/apprentice system. Of course then colleges wouldn't rake in the level of $$$ they do today.
If you can't (or won't) change your own oil, you better value the person willing to do it for you for a fee.
If you don't know how to stop the leak in your cellar, you better be grateful to the person that does, and is willing to come out in god-awfull weather and save your ignorant butt.
If you don't know how to drive a nail in a shingle, you better look up at the roof keeping you and your loved ones dry and protected and be gratefull that someone is still able to drive that nail.
If you're just too busy making money to do labor yourself, and hire it done because it make financial sense, you should value those that are willing to be paid to do your labor for you.
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
