ForgeNow
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@ForgeNow_
The Game Changer in Vocational Training!
One of my neighbors kid went to trade school for HVAC at 18. His parents were embarrassed because everyone around us, college is the only option promoted. He spent $6k and started at $65k while his friends were still in school. At 25 he got his contractor license. At 27 he opened his own shop. Last year his company did $2.1 million in revenue with 3 trucks. His friends just started to pay off their student loans. Now, my neighbors cant stop bragging about their son who also is our neighborhood HVAC tech. Day 96 tagging @mikeroweworks to let everyone know that we need more kids like this.
High schoolers are being told to go to college. Meanwhile these jobs require zero degree and pay $60K–$100K+ in 2026: 1. HVAC Technician — $61,590
Grant Cardone: "The roofer, the HVAC guy, the plumber, and the electrician are going to k*ll AI. They’re going to overperform. The plumber tomorrow is going to make more money than the doctor tomorrow if they know how to hustle."
Anthropic CEO: “50% of all entry-level Lawyers, Consultants, and Finance Professionals will be completely wiped out within the next 1–5 years." R.I.P College students and graduates who wanted jobs 😭
There are only 1.6 job openings per 100 employees in white-collar service roles, the lowest level since 2015, per Bloomberg.
The most powerful banker on Earth just told the government to start preparing for mass UNEMPLOYMENT Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank on the planet just listed exactly how AI is being used inside his bank right now: Risk, fraud, marketing, underwriting, note taking, idea generation, etc. There are 600 use cases of AI across the entire bank. 50 of them he personally classifies as important. And his philosophy on deploying it? His exact words: "If we could use it to do something better, faster, quicker, cheaper, we are going to do it." Then he pivoted and this is where it gets dark. "People talk about the negatives. The risk is that it gets deployed so fast that people don't have time to adjust to it." "There are too many layoffs and I think that's legitimate." The CEO running the world's largest bank just called the risk of mass AI layoffs legitimate. Then he said something no Wall Street CEO is supposed to say. "The government should start thinking about how can we help get the benefits of AI and diminish the negatives." Jamie Dimon is asking the government to step in. His plan is retraining, relocation, retooling high schools, colleges, and community colleges to reskill workers. He ended with a line that should be on the front page of every newspaper in America: "It's all doable, if we think about how we're going to prepare for it."
If you’re tired of seeing my face in your newsfeed or on the TV, apologies in advance, because it’s about to get a lot worse. By the end of the year, you’re going to be absolutely sick of me, due to America’s ever widening skills gap, and our ongoing attempts to close it with a record number of work ethic scholarships from mikeroweWORKS, and therefor, a record number of invitations to apply. The situation is serious. Skilled tradespeople are retiring much faster than they’re being replaced. For every 5 that leave the workforce, two come in. The math is not sustainable, and not a week goes by that I don’t hear from some industry leader wondering if I can help with their recruiting challenges. Every trade is in demand like never before. In fact, there’s been so much outreach from so many CEO’s and elected officials, that we’ve doubled the size of our scholarship fund, and extended the application period this year from six weeks to nine months. Last year, we received 10X the number of applications we normally get, and this year, with the disruption of AI, I suspect the number will be even higher. These are AI-proof, six-figure jobs that don’t require college debt, but instead, training. Thus, I will be cluttering up the media landscape with an onslaught of invitations to apply for scholarships, (like the one attached,) and good-natured appeals to support our efforts with a modest (or immodest) donation. Toward that end, I’m pleased to announce that the enrollment period is officially open. Funds are now available to help train the next generation of skilled workers. My goal this year is to award $10 million in scholarships, and you’re invited to apply today. Or, if the spirit moves you, to support our efforts with a donation of any size. The donate button is big and red and hard to miss at mikeroweworks.org. If nothing else, please share this, so others can be similarly annoyed with another unsolicited invitation to help us close America's skills gap.
