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Richmond County Students Get Hands on Experience At Summer Camp

Author Michelle Mitchell
Students can learn skills for a lucrative career

This summer your teenager could find and refine a skill in a trade that will carry them into a spectacular future! The Marion Barnes Career Center is holding a Skilled Trades Summer Camp from June 24th through the 28th From 8 AM to 12PM. Students from 8th grade through 12th grade in Richmond County can sign up using their MySchool Bucks account for only $25!

Skilled Trades Summer Camp

Students will get the chance to learn from local industry experts and experienced professionals in the field they’re most interested in. This includes fields like welding, carpentry, electrical, cosmetology, or nails. It’s a summer camp with hands-on experience that can pay off big dividends later in life!

A Practical Option

When I was a teenager going to college seemed to be the only option after high school. The general consensus among my friends was that the only way to make big money was with a college degree. That’s just not the case anymore. Tuition, even at a local community college can put you in debt that can take years to pay off. The smarter option seems to be acquiring a trade skill that can pay for itself much quicker and get your young person into a lucrative career with a promising future!

Hands-On Experience

There’s just no substitution for hands-on experience, and students will get the chance to do just that.  Getting their hands dirty is just the beginning!  They’ll be able to figure out what their chosen field has to offer them in the future.  In turn, it gives them confidence and a practical goal to work towards. This summer camp will only be for a few days. But they’ll be laying the groundwork for a top-notch profession that will yield a profit as they grow into maturity.

Having these skills are valuable.  As of March 4, 2024, the average hourly pay for an Entry Level Welder in Georgia is $20.40 an hour! Electricians are one of the most in-demand skilled trades in the country.  An apprentice electrician in Georgia can snag as much as $17.35 an hour! Sending your kid to a camp like this is giving them a huge boost in starting their chosen career!

Registration is open now at this link but space is limited so sign up today!

States With The Hardest Workers

So, where are the hardest working people?

There are a lot of stories these days about just how hard it is to find workers.  Workers resigning for “greener pastures”, “quiet quitting”.  But leave it to the folks at WalletHub to find the states with the hardest workers.

Here’s what WalletHub did.  They based the results on 10 metrics in two categories: direct work factors and indirect work factors.

Direct Work Factors:

  • Average workweek hours
  • Employment rate
  • Share of households where no adults work
  • Share of engaged workers

Indirect Work Factors:

  • Average commute time
  • Share of workers with multiple jobs
  • Annual volunteer hours per resident
  • Average leisure time spent per day.

Here are some specific results.  Alaska has the highest average workweek hours, and Utah has the lowest.  Nebraska has the highest employment rate, and California has the lowest.  North Dakota and Vermont tied for the state with the lowest idle youth rate, and Alaska had the highest.

Utah and Oregon tied for the highest annual volunteer hours per resident, and Mississippi had the lowest.

Utah also had the lowest average leisure time spent per day, Wyoming the highest.

A couple of other interesting facts from the research, we work on average, 1,791 hours per year.  In 2021, we didn’t use 4.6 paid days off.

Where Georgia and South Carolina Land

At this point you might be asking, how did we fare when it comes to how hard we work?  Well, Georgia finished just out of the top ten at 11th and South Carolina was 28th.

Here’s the thing, most people I know work really hard, and on many occasions, give back their valuable time off, it happens at the station, I bet it happens where you work too.

Here are the top 10 states with the hardest workers:

  • 10.) Wyoming

    Wyoming

  • 9.) New Hampshire

    Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA townscape.

  • 8.) Kansas

    Wichita, Kansas

  • 7.) Oklahoma

    Detail of a US route 66 road sign in a town in the State of Oklahoma, USA. Concept for road trip in the USA.

  • 6.) Virginia

    Richmond, Virginia

  • 5.) Texas

    San Antonio, Texas, USA Drone Skyline Aerial Panorama

  • 4.) South Dakota

    Needles Highway South Dakota

  • 3.) Nebraska

    Welcome to Nebraska

  • 2.) Alaska

    Alaska

    Getty Images

  • 1.) North Dakota

    Aerial View of the Tourist Town of Medora, North Dakota outside of Theodore Roosevelt National Park

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