I was discussing with a mechanic today and he told me that the youths are now focused on online jobs. He said many of the apprentices who came to learn skills dropped out. He claimed that most of them are impatient and want quick money.
As much as learning the apprenticeship process is one method that has helped a lot of youths to gain the necessary skillset in different sectors, we have to understand that times have changed and people can easily do Thier plus and minus and go after what will pay them well and won't at the same time stress them too much.
If I can learn a tech skill within a year and the next year start earning well in dollar, do you think it's wise to leave that option just to do apprenticeship for as high as four years only to be settled with peanuts or sent out without proper settlement just like most bosses do? If we even bring it down to the structure of most of the mechanics around, the learning process is always rigorous and learners gets treated like slaves. With that, the generation of youths we have now might find it really hard to cope with such kind of thing.
Apprenticeship is still a good form of getting skilled up and a lot of youths are till date learning a lot of skills ranging from air condition maintenance, electrical wiring, plumbing and almost every skillset you can think. In the midst of that multitude, we still have the larger population of youth going into tech because that's the direction the future is headed towards.