Gen Zers are steadily abandoning the college-to-corporate pipeline, opting for trade school and blue-collar jobs instead. They’re suiting up as electricians, plumbers, and carpenters for six-figure salaries—but there’s one thriving industry they’re still turning their nose up at.
Manufacturing is one of America’s hottest growing professions, with 3.8 million new jobs expected to open up by 2033, according to research last year fromDeloitte and the Manufacturing Institute.
Yet half of those roles are predicted to go unfilled. Just 14% of Gen Z say they’d consider industrial work as a career, according to a separate study from Soter Analytics.
No, no there’s is the fanciful one where jobs they don’t yet exist should determine how people approach their career since that’s how far ahead businesses plan supply chain.
Who wouldn’t want to make a career decision based on a new experiment to reverse 50 years of off-shoring through genius tarrifs that get reversed because of the ever-changing whims of a toddler and his handlers? When the end game is of course fully automated robotics, why wouldn’t people want to start off in an industry that clearly will replace their career with a blanket the instant they can?