Doctor? Lawyer? How About Plumber?

Thought provoking article re: career choices and career paths from the Wall Street Journal.

http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/change/20060324-cullen.html?cjcontent=mail

 

It is a job that cannot be outsourced, and will always be necessary. Plumbers here live like kings. To get one to do some work is more difficult than to get an audience with the Pope. So....

 

I've been seeing the slogan lately, "Apprenticeship-the Other Four Year Degree".

You'd better believe it, too. There's a very good living to be made as an electrician or tile setter. Skilled workers will always be in demand, can move anywhere in the country they like and work, and derive great satisfaction from doing a professional job that most people could never undertake for themselves.