WSJ: Rise in "Craft" Workers - a new niche or weakness in formal job market?
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It's easy enough to open a bar, barber shop or butcher shop. That would be my guess as to why people are interested
Yeah. I'm in this same boat. Tired of working for $11 an hour with a master's and no career prospects aside from retail management. I've spent years looking at alternative careers and the story is usually the same: go back to school for $10-20,000, then work an unpaid internship or volutneer for experience in another city, then maybe you'll get hired somewhere else. Maybe. Even a lot of professional occupations require insane hoops to jump through. Want to be an appraiser? You'll have to find a competitor to train you for TWO YEARS. Not happening.
So if I had an interest or an ability to be a barber or butcher or whatever, yeah, I'd do it. Far less obstacles to doing it. I'm searching right now for something I can "do" as opposed to "go to school to learn" for a career.
Lower barrier to entry than getting a college degree and you aren't working a hot, hard physical job. If you can't get the professional office job and aren't willing to do construction type work there isn't too much left for these people if they want to make more money than a typical low wage retail or food job.
Also, barber has been making a big come back for some years.
I think YouTube has a lot to do with it also. People start channels, pump up the profession and more people get into it.
Big problem though is a lot of these professions have zero benefits so you are responsible for healthcare and everything else so it really cuts into your pay.
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Originally Posted by VM1138
Yeah. I'm in this same boat. Tired of working for $11 an hour with a master's and no career prospects aside from retail management. I've spent years looking at alternative careers and the story is usually the same: go back to school for $10-20,000, then work an unpaid internship or volunteer for experience in another city, then maybe you'll get hired somewhere else. Maybe. Even a lot of professional occupations require insane hoops to jump through. Want to be an appraiser? You'll have to find a competitor to train you for TWO YEARS. Not happening.
So if I had an interest or an ability to be a barber or butcher or whatever, yeah, I'd do it. Far less obstacles to doing it. I'm searching right now for something I can "do" as opposed to "go to school to learn" for a career.
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Originally Posted by High Altitude
Absolutely. I hear this all the time lately.
Easier said than done, however. You can think about what you do as a hobby and whether some type of business pays for that skill, but other than general laborer in the construction industry most work requires some training or certification.
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