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...job-ready from day one. They should at least show you where the crapper is. Of course if it's outside work, the porta-john will be self evident.

Long years ago, summer jobs in various companies served as an entry to full-time jobs at those same companies, or served as referrals to other companies.
Does this opportunity still exist in adequate quantity for high school and college students completing their junior year?

All this dog and pony show can be side-stepped by kids learning a trade. "Job-ready" uh? When the boss shakes hands and feels the guy's callouses that's ready enough.

That trade school stuff is so blue-collar, and depressing. Besides, trade schools don't have frat houses, free party balloons, and communists masquerading as teachers holding your hand all along the way for a measly $20k per year which the gov't is glad to lend you for an interest rate on the moon for the rest of your retarded life.

Trade schools require a certain amount of parental involvement, active participation by the students, are focused on singular topics that don't include african women sexual anxiety studies and then commit you to a lifetime of success working with your mind and your hands and don't require you to go in debt for decades.

I did trade school for 1/2 days during my jr and sr years and graduated from both the trade school and the high school in the same week in 1972 and had already been working full time in a job provided by the school itself with the largest construction company in the area. IOW, I was shovel ready BEFORE I graduated. 42 years later I'm still working in that trade.

Yep, me too. forty-four years a Diagnostic Electrician. worked the railroad repairing locomotives; worked high rise construction, I still have an IBEW card somewhere; ran my own business. I wouldn't trade it for a college degree even back when a bachelor's degree meant something.
Of course you don't need official training to succeed. Many farmers and ranchers barely got through high school. My uncle Letsgo Lozko only had an eighth-grade education and he was a successful chicken rancher.