If only the apprenticeships to do them paid well enough. Perhaps a subsidy to maintain potentially forgotten crafts and skills.
Reading Craft land by James Fox, there are many skills we need but we can't seem to fund to maintain.
Reading Craft land by James Fox, there are many skills we need but we can't seem to fund to maintain.
But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hour west, from North Adams, Mass., to Albany, New York. And you have to stand eight hours a day, and half of people drop out of the apprenticeship for whatever reason.
The fact is that an artistically skilled person in the Northeast could find better-paying, less physically taxing, and probably more stable work.