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‘I love telling people that I’m a mechanic’: This Gen Z woman ditched her law aspirations for blue-collar work—and now outearns her friends
Victoria Madsen, 25, quit college to fix ski lifts in Utah and hasn’t looked back. Nearly half of young people are eyeing the skilled trades, too.
The future is blue-collar, if you ask Gen Z. Nearly half of young people are either learning a skilled trade or seriously considering one, according to Thumbtack’s third annual Future of the Skilled Trades Report, which surveyed 1,000 Americans ages 16 to 30. Some 30% of respondents said the rise of AI has made them more interested in the trades. More than 80% said it’s harder for young people to build a stable career than it was just a few years ago, and four in…
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