Callum Borshers

So I think people know that you can be a master electrician or plumber and make good money, but you're thinking, oh, geez, I have to put in so much time to get there.

That's not a realistic path for me.

You take an example instead of being, say, a service advisor at an auto repair shop like this Crash Champions that I looked at, right?

So this is a

PE-backed, fast-growing company.

They had something like 13 shops five or six years ago.

Now they got over 600.

They're growing so fast that people get promoted quickly.

And if you're a service advisor, you have to know a lot about the cars, but you're not the one who's sweating under the hood doing the repairs yourself.

So you basically go through a six-month apprenticeship.

You're making $60,000 a year during that period.

period, that's a step back probably for a lot of white collar workers, but you could double those earnings within a year and a half.

That can be a path into management.

And I'm told that those are jobs that pay over $200,000 a year.

So if you're a white collar worker who's feeling kind of stalled, you might say, well, geez, am I willing to take a little step back in the short run to really boost my earnings in the longer term?

And the artificial intelligence factor plays in here too, right?

Where blue collar jobs may be seen as more AI proof.

That's a big factor that I think the youngest workers are waking up to.

They do see AI's potential to automate a lot of entry-level white-collar jobs, and they're concerned about that.

I think it's a tougher kind of mental hurdle to get over, though, when you're 30 or 40 versus 20, right?