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Meet a 23-year-old electrician who was a ‘good student’ but skipped college to join Gen Z’s blue-collar revolution. He makes 6 figures
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Growing up in Concord, North Carolina, just outside Charlotte, Jacob Palmer was a classic academic achiever. “I was a good student,” he says in an interview with Fortune. “In high school, I participated in all types of extracurriculars, student leadership, I did a lot of public speaking. I had all sorts of friends.” But he said something changed during the pandemic. “School looked drastically different doing online classes and Zoom calls. It felt very intangible.” He says he figured out pretty quickly that online college “didn’t work for me. I hated it.”
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Lucas Shriver is working hard at LEMA in St. Paul. A solar-powered battery station can now be used as a power source in a desert. It's a project and a job that's been a long time coming.
"I think I was about 7 years old when I built a tree house by myself," Shriver said.
He earned his engineering degree from the University of St. Thomas in June. As a full-time employee, he is one of the lucky ones.
"In my own searching for jobs and my friends, the job market right now is quite difficult, and it does seem like people are looking for someone with five years of experience," Shriver said.
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Emma Burleigh is a reporter at Fortune, covering success, careers, entrepreneurship, and personal finance. Before joining the Success desk, she co-authored Fortune’s CHRO Daily newsletter, extensively covering the workplace and the future of jobs. Emma has also written for publications including the Observer and The China Project, publishing long-form stories on culture, entertainment, and geopolitics. She has a joint-master’s degree from New York University in Global Journalism and East Asian Studies.
It’s only been three years since OpenAI released ChatGPT into the world, and companies are already shaving down their workforces to make way for AI automation. This has left many employees clinging to their jobs for dear life—but according to Dr. Roman Yampolskiy, a professor of computer science and leading voice in AI safety, no worker is safe.
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