Tag: Construct Your Future

  • Building a better future, brick by brick, in the construction trades

    Like many people in their early twenties, Emily Williams wanted a better future for herself and her family. She’d studied Criminal Justice at Wayne County Community College in Michigan and had worked in the concrete-casting industry, but she struggled financially and wanted something more.

  • For The Times They Are A-Changin’

    If you scan the shelves of your favorite bookstore or search the internet for literature related to the current state of the university, the quality of college education, or the student loan dilemma, you will find publications with titles that may make you rethink your current view of higher education, including:

  • Short History of Why College Got So Expensive and What You Can Do About It

    Short History of Why College Got So Expensive and What You Can Do About It

    Let’s say you go to college, get a degree, and get a good job making a decent living— that’s the best case scenario right? You are now on your way to living the American Dream, but wait, are you?

  • Poll finds more Americans believe college not worth the cost

    Poll finds more Americans believe college not worth the cost

    A September Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey shows more Americans believe a four-year college degree is not worth the cost.

  • Find Fulfillment in the Construction Industry

    It’s not a secret anymore. The U.S. needs more construction workers.  Not only that, but the young men and women coming out of high school and college might be exactly the people to fill this economic gap.

  • If You Are an Artist, You Should Consider Becoming an Artisan As Well

    Are you an artist? Do you make art? Do other people tell you you are artistic?  Do you get excited when you get new materials to work with, or better yet, when you find new materials and use them to create a piece of art?  An artist is someone who looks at the world differently,…

  • Re-engaging the disenchanted, disembodied Millennial generation with real work

    Much of the work that is currently available to millennials takes place in the digital world, it is unreal, it is disembodied, and it does not engage the senses, which means the results of this kind of work are rarely seen. This separation between the work one does and the results of that work, the…

  • The Trades could be your best fit

    Are you interested in learning how things are made, buildings are constructed, or about the hidden processes and systems that make the world run?   Are you interested in studying devices and systems and figuring out how they work, or solving problems that other people don’t care about or just can’t solve? 

  • U.S. News and World Report ranks the most in-demand construction jobs

    Does the thought of sitting in a college classroom for four years seem unappealing? Do you hate writing long term papers?  Are you worried about finding a good job so you can move out of your parent’s house? 

  • By 2020, two thirds of available jobs will not require a bachelor’s degree or higher

    Perhaps you heard the college recruiter tell you that a degree from their prestigious university can get you a job anywhere. You can’t. Just because you have a piece of paper that probably put you tens of thousands of dollars in debt, if not more, does not guarantee you a job.