It will be interesting with my two grandsons that i can't get them interested in the trades and working in mediocre jobs when the light bulb goes on.
You mean like working for minimum wage, 20 hours a week and living with mom? I had one of mine helping, installing with me one Summer. It didn't take though. I'm hoping though. When my youngest son graduated college, I had him buy a new car with payments. Then he had to get a good job. He does software.
I moved out of the house as soon as I could. I got married very young, and had a family two years after that.
My parents were twenty-six when they had their first. They did college first, I didn't. Recently my sister, eight years younger told me about the memories our teachers had of me. One said I was a genius with my writing. Funny, he flunked me. Back then they graded on their perceived potential and if they thought you weren't at your best, they graded you down. Heck, I was writing all the time, but some of it I would give to others and they would turn it in as theirs.
There are no limits to what you can do though when you get out on your own. And yes, like the WSJ mentions, we are very much needed.
We have mad skills. For sure.