If you’re like me at all, odds are you got this piece of advice about your career from your parents: Go to college. And for 50 years, the data backed that up.

Well, that’s over, at least for now. For the first time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking it, trade workers now have the advantage.

Yes, plumbers and electricians now have a lower unemployment rate than people with bachelor’s degrees.

And get this, the Federal Reserve says the era of easy job finding for college grads has ended. All this made me realize something sad.

Like so much else in our world, our families in our schools prepared us for lifestyles that barely exist anymore.

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