How do people get trades in the USA ?

[BoredGeorge]

In Australia it is a complete joke.

You need to do a 4 or 5 year apprenticeship at virtually subsistence wages and realistically less.

Then they scratch their head at the lack of skilled trades... anyway, politics aside.

How does it work in the USA ?

I hear you can do a 1 or 2 year course and then be employed at a low level (like in most other professions).

Apologies if I have asked this before.

[jb12288]

You can go to a vocational school and get an associates in a trade, or you can join a union and do the apprenticeship program for a set amount of money for a few years.

[Sanctuary]

It works like you describe except the wages during the apprenticeship years aren't downright terrible.

I think Frasbee is learning a trade.

[BoredGeorge]

It works like you describe except the wages during the apprenticeship years aren't downright terrible.

I think Frasbee is learning a trade.

Well terrible wage in Australia would be $16 to $17 per hour.. a first year apprentice will get about $5. Keep in mind these are AUD.

I firmly believe it should be one or two years of PRACTICAL tafe training followed be entry level as an apprentice at something like $15-$16 an hour to start for whatever time is deemed appropriate.

So you can get a semi-useful tradesman for $15-$16 an hour which is basically what companies want (3rd and 4th yearers).

At $5 or so an hour only 15 year olds living at home can afford to take up a trade. Then we wonder why there is a shortage.

The problem is that during the 80's and 90's the trades became professions for scumbags, criminals, and retards. That needs to change so respectable people can take up the jobs at a fair rate. Not the extorionist amounts claimed now, and in the other end of the spectrum a qualified tradesman can make no more than a clerk at target.

[BoredGeorge]

It works like you describe except the wages during the apprenticeship years aren't downright terrible.

I think Frasbee is learning a trade.

Yeah, but he is commercial construction. Where it is pretty much as I describe without the TAFE course.

[IndiReloaded]

Frasbee will know.

[doppelgaenger]

Anywhere from 1 semester to two years of tech. school.