On "The American Tradesperson Episode 2, Part I: Workforce Development—Opportunity Knocks"

Workforce development content aimed at bringing people into the trades is mostly cheerleading that dodges the real problem: you can't recruit your way out of structural pay and scheduling issues that make the work unsustainable for people with options. A plumber watching this knows the gap between "opportunity knocks" messaging and the grind of retaining anyone good—the bottleneck isn't awareness or interest, it's that the job has to actually work as a career, not just a talking point at industry conferences. Until the conversation shifts from recruitment theater to retention economics, you'll keep cycling through people instead of building a stable crew.