Construct Your Future News

Let’s say you go to college, get a degree, and get a good job making a decent living— that’s the best case scenario right? You are now on your way to living the American Dream, but wait, are you?

A September Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey shows more Americans believe a four-year college degree is not worth the cost.

It’s not a secret anymore. The U.S. needs more construction workers.  Not only that, but the young men and women coming out of high school and college might be exactly the people to fill this economic gap.

A recently published by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics indicated a massive need for construction workers in the months of May and June. 

According to the BLS report, in June, there were over 225,000 jobs available in the construction industry throughout the United States.           

This data confirms a number of recent media reports claiming the construction industry has a need for highly-skilled and highly-trained workers. 

Discipline, hard work, commitment; these are just some of the attributes that military veterans have that transfer perfectly to careers in the skilled trades. 

Military members and veterans are the perfect candidates for careers in the skilled trades, they are punctual, disciplined, and task oriented. They know how to work with others to get things done and finish large projects that often last a long time. 

Are you an artist? Do you make art? Do other people tell you you are artistic? 

Do you get excited when you get new materials to work with, or better yet, when you find new materials and use them to create a piece of art? 

An artist is someone who looks at the world differently, someone who sees the possibility for making and building everywhere and at all times. 

Much of the work that is currently available to millennials takes place in the digital world, it is unreal, it is disembodied, and it does not engage the senses, which means the results of this kind of work are rarely seen. This separation between the work one does and the results of that work, the separation between action and consequence, results in this type of work leaving those who do it unsatisfied.

Are you interested in learning how things are made, buildings are constructed, or about the hidden processes and systems that make the world run?  

Are you interested in studying devices and systems and figuring out how they work, or solving problems that other people don't care about or just can't solve? 

Does the thought of sitting in a college classroom for four years seem unappealing?

Do you hate writing long term papers? 

Are you worried about finding a good job so you can move out of your parent’s house? 

Are you tired of doing work that leaves you feeling empty? 

Do you want to be excited about going to work, knowing a new challenge is waiting for you? 

Are you tired of spending all day staring at a screen or getting yelled at by customers?