
Hot jobs of the future: welder, plumber
Tennessee’s technical colleges focus on job skills, such as mechatronics. We’ve reached peak college, writes urbanist Joel Kotkin in Newsweek. The jobs of the future are in the skilled trades. “Over the past 20 years, we have created twice as many bachelor’s degrees as jobs to employ those who have earned them, he writes. A survey taken in 2020 found that only a third of undergraduates see their educations as advancing their career goals, and barely one in five think the BA i