Is the Skilled Trades Shortage Putting Our Future at Risk? Impact & Solutions | Mike Holmes Podcast
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- Опубликовано: 7 ноя 2024
- Mike Holmes has been a professional contractor for over 40 years, and over the course of his work one recurring theme he's seen is the shortage in skilled trades and that's largely been due to the stigma surrounding it. While Mike and his kids have been working hard to encourage more youth and women to join the skilled trades, the shortage is a real issue and that's been noticed by many professionals in the construction industry. There is a need to promote the skilled trades as a viable career because we’ll always need people to help build our homes, roads, and hospitals. These structures don’t just sprout up out of the ground!
In this podcast episode, Mike Holmes is joined by his son, Michael Holmes -Professional Contractor & TV Host, and JT Bhabra President of TruBuild Fine Homes, Holmes Approved Homes Builder as they talk about some of the issues caused by the skilled trades shortage, what this means, and how to overcome it and encourage more people to join the trades.
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The trades are great for several reasons :: 1) you learn a skill that you can use your hole life , 2) meny people just not ment for collage " they learn by doing not by studding a book " ! Then some people like working with there hands designing and building things !!
Hearing people not talking about the fact that if anyone gets more money for free than for working, they will certainly take advantage of that. The reason your parents tell you to become a doctor, lawyer, etc. you would make a better living than a carpenter, plumber, or electrician- it’s because in most cases they’re right!
Especially if you’re a carpenter. As a carpenter myself I tell you that you can’t make even the same money as a plumber or electrician. I agree with Mike about taking the exposure of children from school and parents talking children out of the trades. I love carpentry and furniture making, but I also want to live a good life with a great living.
In the U.S., where I’m from, carpenters don’t earn a living that keeps up with inflation. I love working with my hands, and I intend to teach my nephews and nieces all they want to learn, but trade work has never paid enough to retire well.
Wages and retirement matter if you want to entice and keep workers. Teaching and encouraging others also matters. In the U.S. you need at least $1.3 Million to retire comfortably. The average carpenter, electrician, or plumber will never see that in this current environment.
Well learning how to fix things and do rutine maintenence on this is very helpful and save you a fortune over your life time ! Plus other life skills like : cooking on a stove and ballencing a check book and sowing and so on are things that need to be started in Junior High !! Grade School through High School same crap every year ! ( Shure it great to teach hightech stuff ( but need to teach basic life skills too -- starting at a young age ) !!
We told our kids when they were young to go into trades, carpenter, plumber, electrician. None of the them ended up doing that, Army, IT, Nurse. My husband is a sole trader security door and flyscreen windows manufacturer and installer. He worked all through the pandemic, always busy. My brother said he'd never say no to his kids, his son is 36, zero qualifications and still living at home.
And sadly the IT and Nursing still have shortages. Bit of a "pandemic" in its own, right now, with nurses and RNA / STNA ect who got "pushed" through their training and schooling fast track to help with the shortages due to the covid nonsense, now its coming out that many arent even half trained. Greys Anatomy just did a (partial) story on it, tied into womans clinics ran by "skilled nursing associates" and many dont know the first thing. Spreading misinformation and hurting people all at the same time.
6:15 Completely depends on the person to be honest. Many of the best world renown companies started much the same way. Zero or Minimal formal training, but a drive and willpower, with a touch of empathy for customers. Can be the perfect storm for a wonderful start.
The trades are PERFECT for people who has a family tree of tradesmen, ex-convicts, and high school graduates who are unsure with what they want to do as a career.
I still however, have college with an EDGE over the skilled trades just because our overlords at the construction site are still the STEM wielding degree holders who we call the Civil Engineers, Architects, and even Construction Managers.
Also personally, I think healthcare has the most robust and diverse career options from many educational levels that won’t stop growing anytime soon as long as our population ages and kept being fed poison.
My only really major criticism of this conversation is that they're glorifying long hours and equating not willing to spend so much time away from their families to not wanting to work, and that's just silly. My dad did that and I haven't spoken to him for 15 years because I barely saw the man before I was 20. We also have amazing technology now that makes all of the trades quicker and simpler to do, but the previous generation sees that as an opportunity to get more work done, but we younger folks see it as a way to spend an extra hour with our spouses and kids and pets and hobbies. We want a higher quality of day-to-day life.
Hey Mike Holmes I got a few chalenges for you if you not to chicken to try them !! Plus a challenge for Frank your Electritan if he is not to chicken to try it !
Oh Mike Holmes "you say you love a challenge ,bring it on " well time to put your money were your big mouth is !"
Mike Holmes will never get back to me ! He is to much of a coward to try my challenges !
How you ended your show is exactly my mindset. I work hard everyday to build what the client needs (vs wants) and I’m proud when I can point to one of them and say I helped build that. Now I’m not building houses, I’m building websites. It a very similar mindset between the two, but one is more physical than the other, but the mental part is the same. I will always wonder what would have happened if we had a shop class in high school. Would I have become a general contractor, quite possibly since I do enjoy working on my house.
Have you considered having Mike Rowe from Dirty Jobs and Rowe Works on your show? He’s been promoting the trades and helping get people into them.
Good job 👍 Just a suggestion it would be good to get Mike Rowe on Dirty Job Discovery channel who is also a strong advocate for skilled trades to help as you talk on how we need more skilled labor from the American point of view, and the Canadian point of view and world view on a podcast or something. Also, since your work is more in the in Canada, does that have a lot of similarities to American home infrastructure and everything you said recommend also work for us here in America for our homes and with contractors and others?? Since there is a shortage on skilled labor and a plethora of shady contractors gives more of a reason to be a DIY individual and learn by any other means the correct way to do things instead of hiring professionals, who is our little to impossible to find and just like you show on your TV channel that even if you do all your homework and do everything by the book you still get screamed and screwed so it’s just better to just learn yourself and do it yourself correctly In other words we are own contractor of sorts that’s licensed. It’s like the old saying if you want something done right do it yourself in accordance to the law of corse.
Here is a idea : 1) get back to having trade shop classes in grade school ! 2) have life skills classes in grade school ! Hold competitions for say designing and building things ! Ok I can see schooling for high-tech side of the trades ;that is good ! But we need to support our kids in what ever careers they choose ! Plus give people without a formal education a chance to see what they can do And not treat them as the are dummies ! ( problem is you Mike Holmes and so many others pushing hiring lisenced pros ! Ok that is fine if you are rich and get a good pro ! But most people are not rich and a Handyman is the only afordable way to it work done ! ) By THE WAY MIKE HOLMES GETTING JOBS BASED ON PERSONAL Experience HAS GONE AWAY IN FAVER OF FORMAL EDUCATION !
God Bless you and your family 😊❤️🙏
17:00 Its a big disconnect with respect. Look at Japan and the way they treat such people, All people. Look at their streets, How clean. They take pride in everything they do. More people Respect others no matter what they do, as long as you are productive.
I saw this channel and subscribed instantly. Then I looked through the videos and it looks like nothing but shilling for sponsors. It's a shame because I grew up watching Holmes on Homes and it is where I got the Do it Right or Make it Right work ethic from.
Ive listen to almost 2 mins of this podcast and the blame is put on people that dont want to work but that is not the case we dont want to work for shit employers
part of the problem is that you focus exclusively on men...there is a large potential workforce that simply cannot find its place in the trades...I understand this is about physical strength but perhaps it is worth thinking how women can be integrated...and those women might just encourage their sons and daughters to join the trades...
Propaganda