Trade versus University

Why do so many young people prefer University over learning a trade?
Is it because it's about the uni lifestyle and the old fashioned way of thinking that to get a well paid job you need a degree?
Most trades these days are extremely well paid and you will never be short of work. A good Mechanic is on £700+ a week. If you work at a main dealers probably a bit more and Builders, Sparkies and Plumbers are very well paid jobs.
You earn the same amount doing a trade job as you would doing a uni job.

as someone wanting to go to uni i think its alot to do with the fact more vocational pathways are not advertised as much in schools. + there is a bit of a stigma over going into trade instead of uni that people who do this only do it because they are stupid or couldn't get into uni which obviously isnt true. people are also worried that they will miss out on the uni lifestyle with there friends that do go to uni.

So I get paid as much as a good mechanic despite being at the very start of my career? Rather than get dirty or do a physical job, I sit on my backside drinking coffee and get to work from home a lot of the time?

That’s why I picked a graduate career.

But if you need your car repaired you need a mechanic. Obviously your education wasn't that good. What a condescending reply yours was. I can guarantee a welder makes more than you ever will.

But if you need your car repaired you need a mechanic. Obviously your education wasn't that good. What a condescending reply yours was. I can guarantee a welder makes more than you ever will.

And… you are asking in another thread about accommodation at Newcastle University. If trades pay so well, why aren’t you training to be a welder yourself?

That's where me and you differ. I'd rather be breaking my back. I'd rather have a cup of coffee on a building site with the lads. I would absolutely hate sitting in an office on a computer because it's not how I do things. When I go home and my knees are aching it means I've achieved something unlike sitting painting my finger nails like you do.

I have a sea front apartment where I can walk along the beach every night after work in South Shields. I was giving people advice if they don't want to live in Newcastle theirs surrounding areas like Shields and Jarrow where it's cheaper for students. I'm too old to retrain now.

I’ll keep my opinions about South Tyneside to myself as they are not positive.

However, it is my education that allowed me to escape the North East. As much as I retain an affinity for the region, I simply do not want to live somewhere with so limited opportunities.

And thank you for the abusive DM.

Theirs no envy involved because I do a mans job with other men instead of a woman's job.

??? both men and women do trade jobs...

Why do so many young people prefer University over learning a trade?
Is it because it's about the uni lifestyle and the old fashioned way of thinking that to get a well paid job you need a degree?
Most trades these days are extremely well paid and you will never be short of work. A good Mechanic is on £700+ a week. If you work at a main dealers probably a bit more and Builders, Sparkies and Plumbers are very well paid jobs.
You earn the same amount doing a trade job as you would doing a uni job.