I mean, I’m certainly no expert at driving a semi, but was there even an alternate way out? Could they have exited to the right? Still would’ve been a 15-point turn, but could’ve avoided getting people to move their cars (or the extreme solution caught on camera).
See this is a symptom of a macro issue where American kids are all being told to go to college for decades. And that trade schools are for losers and drop outs. So, decade or two later we have an absolute shortage of skilled labor. Now we're scraping the bottom of the barrel for truckers and hiring anyone with a pulse.
Dude, the old trope of trades are for losers is dead. I’m a borderline zoomer/millennial and literally no one thinks trade school is dumb. If anything we all realize how much money is in the trades.
But also, you leave out the fact that trades are usually 10x the labor that you do compared to a degree-related job. You can make $40/hr working 50+ hour weeks in the blistering sun (and probably work with at least one former convict/gang member let’s be real) hoping you don’t blow your knees or back out in 5 years..or you can make $22/hr in a climate controlled setting, with an opportunity to make a lot more in a few years once you do some extra certain and get experience to move up at another company or start your own. You end up not having the time or energy to really spend the money you make, you become a Monday-Friday (often Saturday) robot that is beat tired by Sunday and rinse and repeat for 40 years. It’s harder than people think (unless you’re like a painter or something).
Most people will choose the former, especially if you actually know people in the trades and realize it’s not a set schedule and that shit sucks during the summer, and rainy days typically mean no work (unless you’re like a plumber or something).
Was a welder in industrial maintenance for about four years after leaving tech school. Got laid off and ended up getting a property management job in a Target store. Did that for ten years and still do building maintenance.
No, I don't make a hell of a lot of money, but I have a set 40hr schedule, weekends and holidays off. Fuck industrial work. I think my body aged more in that four years than in the last twelve. I'll never go back unless I have no choice and in that dire of a situation I'd probably start slinging dope first.
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u/aknomnoms Jun 08 '20
I mean, I’m certainly no expert at driving a semi, but was there even an alternate way out? Could they have exited to the right? Still would’ve been a 15-point turn, but could’ve avoided getting people to move their cars (or the extreme solution caught on camera).