Working Class: Making the Trades Cool Again

Nick Kasik

Jun 2022 · iUniverse

About this ebook

The TV show Working Class was developed to bring attention to the epidemic shortage of skilled trades professionals, and to promote vocational careers. As a society, we must stop convincing every one of the stereotypes that the trades are low pay, or 2nd class. Instead, we need to be talking about getting paid to learn a marketable skill in half the time, with no debt, and higher starting wages. We need to be exposing the damage society has brought to an entire generation of retail workers, baristas, fast food employees, unemployed and under employed college graduates with lifelong debt and no jobs. We must stop churning out college graduates in fields that have no jobs, low pay, and crushing debt, all to enrich the educational institutions.

About the author

As the host of the TV show "Working Class" Nick celebrates the technological advancements and skills that are required to work in the trades today. As a construction executive running organizations propelled by the trades for his entire career, Nick understands that society has lost touch with what the trades really do on a day-to-day basis and is committed to making the trades cool again. In addition to hosting “Working Class”, Nick is still an active construction executive, producer, writer, and educational program developer for the construction industry. Nick promotes the trades, knowing that they are the backbone of the country, with an unwavering commitment to bringing the trades back to our schools and to making the trades cool again. www.working--class.org