Daily Highlight: Blue Collar Jobs

They're renovating the building across the street, so we discuss Gen-Z's obsession with blue collar jobs.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
So, yeah, but Danielle has this thing about guys that
wear tool belts.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I like it, like logged and when.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your husband like does stuff around the house, like frog,
where's Froggy? So when Froggy does stuff around the house,
he actually he's hot. There for a minute. Really you
really are?

Speaker 3 (00:24):
I love it.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Oh, it's going to break more crap. But look at that.
Look at them over here they're working in the looks
like the conference room. Look at that guy right there,
he's wearing I'll have their work boots on their timberlains.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I love when, like, uh, when something breaks in the
house and I can't figure it out and Sheldon figures
it out, like and it's some kind of and I go,
very nice.

Speaker 4 (00:43):
They see you open.

Speaker 1 (00:44):
Hello.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
I read I read this morning that half of gen
Z want to move into blue collar work. Have you
heard about this?

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Really makes sense?

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, Nate, I'm trying to get Nate to work on
the pipeline. Seriously.

Speaker 4 (00:58):
Now, I think about it all the time. You you go,
you actually do something, you do something with your hands,
you make something tangible right right right then you when
you leave that day you're done satisfaction exactly exactly here
I built something here.

Speaker 2 (01:12):
You know, we do a very very interesting show. Yeah,
we get high ratings. They go out and they sell
it and there's the end of it. I mean, they
let us keep our jobs. But no, if you're doing
blue collar work, you're the Look at that guy right there,
Oh my god. Yeah they hey, hey, see what he's doing.
He's he's putting up that that cubicle wall. Oh yeah,

(01:33):
look at that.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
They get in there really early, don't they.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Yeah, they do. Anyway, So half of gen Z want
to move into blue collar work.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
I just have it.

Speaker 2 (01:42):
I found it the story. Twenty three percent of Americans
who don't currently work in the grade field plan to
move into blue collar work. All right, so there are
people want to go from white collar to blue collar,
same like crime. Half said they're planning on it right now.
They're planning on leaving the desk behind, leaving the work

(02:05):
closes behind, and being blue collar worker. Oh yeah, I
like that.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah. I always think about it in terms of if
there was a blackout, if you had to start all
over again, would your job exist, would you be worthwhile?
The answer is no for most yeah, for most things
of most people. But if you can build something, you're
still valuable. Please do it.

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Listen to this. Seventy seven percent of all people in
the survey, seventy seven that's high assume a college degree
is just not necessary. It's outdated. Wow, They'd rather go
into trade school and learn how to be an electrician
or work on cars or something that's so important to
all of us. Seventy eight percent of these people have

(02:47):
noticed a recent surge in young adults who want to
move into trade careers, meaning if not them, they're friends
they're talking with every day, or saying, yeah, I'm done
with sitting at a desk. I want to go do
something and build things, move around like straight Nate from
the elvistre In morning show.

Speaker 4 (03:03):
Awesome, I would love to do that, so.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
It says he're in this article. As the promise of
a four year degree falls short and the cost to
receive a college degree continues to climb, including student loans,
crazy young Americans are making blue collar jobs cool again.
It's refreshing to see young adults taking notice and interest
in these lines of work, especially considering how challenging it's
been for new grats to find white collar jobs. So

(03:27):
there you go.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
It's good. Good.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Blue collar has always been cool, always always. I mean, listen,
if you're watching porn Hub, it's always a mechanic guy
with a tool.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Bell, right, it's the pizza delivery guy. Is that blue collar?
It's kind of hot.

Speaker 3 (03:45):
It's always that.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
So there you go.

Speaker 3 (03:47):
Never tech guy.

Speaker 2 (03:48):
So if it's in the back of your mind, I
guess what I'm getting to here. If it's in the
back of your mind, you know, I really want to
look more into that, or I know exactly what I
would do. I have friends who work in this industry,
maybe building whatever. They can get me into the union
or whatever whatever. You know what, it's not that far fetched.
I think it's cool.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
We are the commercials for Lincoln Tech, and Lincoln Tech
has all those jobs, and so many people sign up
all the time and and get their degree and go
work in the you know out there. It's good.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't know what I would do. I'm not really handy.
I would I wouldn't even let my dog then a
doghouse that I built. You could lay some pipe? Elvis,
Oh Lord.

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Should I call HR?

Speaker 2 (04:28):
Who would you call HR?

Speaker 4 (04:28):
For me?

Speaker 3 (04:29):
I'm right now hello.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Hr, Okay, I need to report straight Nate.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
He accuse me of laying pipe.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
The guy that we accuse of being straight just telling
me that I'm laying pipe. Yes, okay, I'll hold