Would you have been a machinist if you had been required to take seven years of schooling and come out with $250k of debt when done?
You can be a machinist today without paying a bunch of money.
If you want to talk about attending elite universities and such, that's one topic.
But the working class opportunities that were available to me are still there today.
And the bottom line is, most Boomers spent their lives working at a job. I've showed you a job that's available to*day* that pays a good wage and has benefits.
There's undoubtedly others.
I can understand why someone wouldn't want to make the sacrifice necessary to work those types of jobs. They're a tough way to make a living.
But the vast majority of people who have had success "working" have had tough jobs. In the working class, the best money is made in the tough jobs. Not all of the tough jobs pay good money. But all the jobs that pay good money require a sacrifice.
