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Speaker 1: Hey, twenty nine fifty five KCD talk station, Bryan Timas,
Speaker 1: youre wishing everybody very happy Friday. I hope you had
Speaker 1: some plans for the weekend to put a smile on
Speaker 1: your face. And let us suggest maybe if you've got
Speaker 1: a young person in your home, that maybe they don't
Speaker 1: go to college and incurt two hundred thousand dollars in
Speaker 1: student loans and come out with a degree in art
Speaker 1: or something that there is no employment opportunity there. That's
Speaker 1: a foolish exercise. How about a career opportunity rather than
Speaker 1: four years in college. How about earning while you learn,
Speaker 1: get a job in the trades, and apparently there are
Speaker 1: a lot of jobs out there. Welcome Brian Miller. He
Speaker 1: is with the Northern Kentucky or sorry, the Building Industry
Speaker 1: Association of Northern Kentucky. You can find him online at
Speaker 1: builders NKY dot com. Brian, welcome to the program. Good
Speaker 1: to have you on today.
Speaker 3: More of my friend Howry on this fine Friday.
Speaker 1: I'm doing great, and you know I'm a convert for
Speaker 1: what you're pushing here, which is a career opportunity in
Speaker 1: the trades and the important operative word in that is career.
Speaker 1: You can earn a good living in the trades. This
Speaker 1: isn't something you know, This isn't like going to work
Speaker 1: in the McDonald's. You can actually raise a family and
Speaker 1: uh and and and buy a home. Well maybe not
Speaker 1: in this housing market, but you can actually afford to
Speaker 1: live and enjoy life while working in the trades.
Speaker 3: Yeah. This this housing market is another call in I think.
Speaker 3: But as far as the trades go, you know, just
Speaker 3: it's it's a it's an outstanding opportunity. Unlike so many
Speaker 3: decades before. You know, we're seeing a big shift with
Speaker 3: this latest generation generation Z. They're really making a press
Speaker 3: into the end of the trades. And and they're really
Speaker 3: the hands on generation. And you know when they when
Speaker 3: they when they look at at the trades, they're talking
Speaker 3: about things like coming to electrician, plumber and HVAC installer, carpenters, welders, masons,
Speaker 3: people that work on facilities. And we're looking at wages
Speaker 3: just straight out of the trade school that are really
Speaker 3: getting to the level of about you the mid fifties
Speaker 3: all the way up to around ninety thousand dollars. And
Speaker 3: if you're talking about taking those skills to the next level.
Speaker 3: You know, we can talk about that, but we're really
Speaker 3: talking about leveling up in the way of potential income
Speaker 3: in a very short amount of time. And so we're
Speaker 3: seeing folks that come through the nsy Billion Institute, which
Speaker 3: I know that we're here to talk about plus this
Speaker 3: Generation Z trend, but you know, we're seeing folks that
Speaker 3: are we just get around the interviews as and videos
Speaker 3: of some of our students and graduates. We're seeing twenty
Speaker 3: two year olds, twenty three year olds buying their first home,
Speaker 3: buying their first vehicles, investing in their future wealth and
Speaker 3: going back to what the American dream used to look
Speaker 3: like for your fifty years ago.
Speaker 1: And you know, and doing rewarding work. Brian, I have.
Speaker 1: I am a dabbler, you know, jack of all trades,
Speaker 1: master of none. But I owned a really old house
Speaker 1: when we lived in Oak Park, Illinois, one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five year old home, and it needed a lot
Speaker 1: of work, and my wife and I at the time
Speaker 1: didn't have the resources to hire people out to do
Speaker 1: all this work. So I learned back then, you go
Speaker 1: to the library and you get a book, you figure
Speaker 1: out how to do you know, a plaster and lathe
Speaker 1: work would work. Actually made some of my own furniture,
Speaker 1: teaching myself how to do it. But the nice thing
Speaker 1: about it, and the only reason I bring that up,
Speaker 1: is because when you walk into a room like the
Speaker 1: bathroom that I remodeled, I learned how to lay tile,
Speaker 1: you walk in, there's a sense of pride. You created
Speaker 1: something that is going to be there and outlast you.
Speaker 1: And that's the kind of thing that I've heard from
Speaker 1: people in the trades all the time. I hung that
Speaker 1: high iron on that skyscraper I helped build, to do
Speaker 1: the masonry work on that building. I mean, everywhere you go,
Speaker 1: you've got something to show for the work that you've done.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. You know, a lot of our instructors are actually
Speaker 3: graduated program and they're current trades people, and a lot,
Speaker 3: you know, we have information this report were just released
Speaker 3: about how they're beginning to age or have been agent
Speaker 3: quite some time. And you talk to these folks and
Speaker 3: they tell you what the sense of pride and a
Speaker 3: little glint of a tier in the corner of their eye,
Speaker 3: how they drive pass structures. All the time, I watch
Speaker 3: people going to work, watch families kiss the loved ones,
Speaker 3: goodbye as they go to work in the morning or
Speaker 3: come home in the afternoon and say, I had a
Speaker 3: hand in building that I was in that room. I
Speaker 3: made that happen. That kid sits at that desk in
Speaker 3: their bedroom. You know I installed that trim carp dere
Speaker 3: or that that company that's going in and clocking in
Speaker 3: every day. If it worn't for me, that structure wasn't
Speaker 3: going to end up being there. So yeah, they has
Speaker 3: a great sense of pride and a great opportunity. And
Speaker 3: you know, on top of that, I don't know if
Speaker 3: any other industry in this country where company ownership and
Speaker 3: company management has got an open gate the way it
Speaker 3: does now in the construction industry.
Speaker 1: Excellent point. Entrepreneurial opportunities abound. Now you learn your HVAC
Speaker 1: trade work and going through the Endswiler Building Institute, you
Speaker 1: can earn while you learn. We'll talk about the details
Speaker 1: on this. We'll take a break in a second. You
Speaker 1: can break it down a little bit more thoroughly, Brian,
Speaker 1: But you can quit wherever you are and start your
Speaker 1: own business. Once you got the skills that's needed, you
Speaker 1: could become your own employer. And what a great thing
Speaker 1: that is. For the entrepreneurally minded kids out there or
Speaker 1: folks out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got this that they wan't a generation Z.
Speaker 3: They are some smart folks. And it's not just the
Speaker 3: old trades, you know, just nothing technology laced. The younger
Speaker 3: people are really bringing technology on the job site with
Speaker 3: them and so this is stuff that AI can't take away.
Speaker 3: But you know, we're seeing a lot of gen zs.
Speaker 3: They are actually teaming up right out of our school
Speaker 3: and they have found out the secret that Hey, if
Speaker 3: I really want to do well in this world, and
Speaker 3: I really want to provide for my family and for
Speaker 3: myself and my loved ones, I can team up with
Speaker 3: a group of other trade professionals. We can build up
Speaker 3: a company and to a point where it is a
Speaker 3: marketable sale, we can sell it. We can go back
Speaker 3: and do that again two or three times. And you're
Speaker 3: talking about an open paycheck for what the rest of
Speaker 3: the world looks like for you. So, you know, just
Speaker 3: there's just such a lack of these of these of
Speaker 3: these of these companies out there, and we you know,
Speaker 3: one of the things that's been driving up the price
Speaker 3: of homes is lack of homes. But are the causes
Speaker 3: of that as we got the lack of builders aren't
Speaker 3: just full builders, but we're talking about people that are
Speaker 3: in the trades period. So we have minished our supply
Speaker 3: of trades people to a point where that demand curve
Speaker 3: has gone up so high that the wages are spiking,
Speaker 3: and it's just an amazing opportunity for folks. It just
Speaker 3: the last five years and the trades that we teach it.
Speaker 3: We'll get into here in a little bit, but we're
Speaker 3: looking at somewhere between its sixteen up to around a
Speaker 3: twenty seven percent increase in the last five years, and
Speaker 3: just these wages alone. So you know, a plumber back
Speaker 3: about you know, five years ago, eight years ago that
Speaker 3: was making fifty to fifty one thousand dollars, they're getting
Speaker 3: close to seventy thousand dollars now.
Speaker 1: Career opportunity.
Speaker 3: Pause.
Speaker 1: We'll pause, will bring Brian Miller back to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the ends while or building institute.
Speaker 1: But something I'm more I'm more excited about and really
Speaker 1: think is just a really cool thing is the Covington
Speaker 1: Academy of Heritage Trades. More with Brian Miller from the
Speaker 1: Building Industry of Northern Kentucky again online at builders nky
Speaker 1: dot com. Pause for a moment, we'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: Hey forty fifty five KRCD talk station from the Building
Speaker 1: Industry Association in Northern Kentucky. Brian Miller talking about jobs
Speaker 1: and career opportunities in the trades. Real quick, Brian, before
Speaker 1: we dive on into the Enswaller Institute and the other
Speaker 1: thing that I'm interested in, the Covington Academy of Heritage Trades.
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know one of my
Speaker 1: regular listeners, jeff he's in the machine tool business, owns
Speaker 1: his own business, Mark Contool. Shout out to the boys
Speaker 1: of Markcontool. Jeffrey says, thanks for plugging the trades again today.
Speaker 1: We need all the help we can get. Serious opportunities
Speaker 1: are waiting for those that are willing to get their
Speaker 1: hands a little dirty. So there's one guy in the
Speaker 1: business out there doubling down on what you're saying, Brian.
Speaker 1: There are lots of jobs out there, and some really
Speaker 1: good paying ones. So let's pivot over. So if you
Speaker 1: go to the builders nkys dot com site, you'll see
Speaker 1: a link to the Endswiler Building Institute, So let's start
Speaker 1: there and with that program involves and I see you
Speaker 1: have opportunities for high school students as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do, and in Kentucky we've been expanding those.
Speaker 3: So the last two years we've had wonderful support by
Speaker 3: some legislators in our market, like this last session with
Speaker 3: Representative Kim Banta in the session before that with Senator
Speaker 3: Shelley Funky Promyer, a wonderful leaders. You know, we've been
Speaker 3: able to pass some bills which has been taking this
Speaker 3: dual credit concept that the part of the education has
Speaker 3: had for quite some time and shifting it over to
Speaker 3: the construction trade. So we are currently working with public
Speaker 3: schools and area technology centers and hopes to be able
Speaker 3: to solidify curriculum alignment where people that graduate from high
Speaker 3: school that are in these vocational programs are able to
Speaker 3: achieve dual credit and to our proprietary school, the ins
Speaker 3: our Ability Institute, and you get into the trade and
Speaker 3: get into a license trade even that much faster, so
Speaker 3: we already accelerate your career advancement as a recognized education
Speaker 3: provider with state government and the licensed trades will electric
Speaker 3: HVAC and plumbing. But this next step we'll be able
Speaker 3: to shave off another year. And what we've also been
Speaker 3: able to do is that on the job training hours
Speaker 3: you can now achieve those in high school too, So
Speaker 3: quite frankly, by the time that you come to our
Speaker 3: program in the license trades, you could be one year
Speaker 3: away from your licensure, which means an advancement of about
Speaker 3: twenty to thirty thousand dollars in your trades alone. And
Speaker 3: on the back end of that, we are going to
Speaker 3: start some value added classes because we know because college
Speaker 3: isn't right for everybody, but you can still pick up
Speaker 3: the skills that you can learn in college without all
Speaker 3: the electives. We will be providing some classes in estimating
Speaker 3: and project management. You want to talk about a level up.
Speaker 3: We talked about twenty to thirty thousand dollars increase in
Speaker 3: these trades just to get your license in those three
Speaker 3: trades alone, But if you're looking at becoming an estimator
Speaker 3: in the field, electrician can increase their pay by twenty
Speaker 3: to forty percent just by becoming an estimator, and if
Speaker 3: you've become a project manager, they can increase their pay
Speaker 3: from thirty percent to seventy percent. So we're talking about
Speaker 3: coming out with the license and the electric trades just
Speaker 3: under sixty thousand dollars. But if you get into project management,
Speaker 3: you're talking somewhere between seventy to one hundred and twenty
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. If you can run a crew and run
Speaker 3: into our project.
Speaker 1: Not too shabby. Wow blows the mind, it really does.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Now, let's use a hypothetical here. Let's say you're you know,
Speaker 1: you're in your forties and you're tired of being the
Speaker 1: producer for the fifty five carsy morning show. Is it
Speaker 1: too late for someone mid career life to maybe turn
Speaker 1: to the trades and learn this as a career opportunity
Speaker 1: or is it sort of designed to focus mostly on
Speaker 1: the on the younger people.
Speaker 3: Now? Absolutely not. Our average age of our of our
Speaker 3: adult enroll is about twenty four years old, and we're
Speaker 3: trying to make that younger. But we do have several
Speaker 3: people that are in career transitions, so they, you know,
Speaker 3: they've been the workaday world. They're like, I'm burned out
Speaker 3: by this. There's a lot of pressures. And then we
Speaker 3: see artificial intelligence making its inter roads in the white
Speaker 3: collar community folks that are choosing the trades because artificial
Speaker 3: intelligence can't fix your plumbing at two.
Speaker 1: O'clock in the morning, No it can't. They actually did
Speaker 1: a South Park episode on that. It's fantastic, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: Let's okay. So that's the ends Wild Billding Institute. All
Speaker 1: the information there again at the website builders nky dot com.
Speaker 1: Let's pivot over to something that's near and dear in
Speaker 1: my heart. This is the Covington Academy of Heritage Trade. Now,
Speaker 1: I mentioned before we had one hundred and twenty five
Speaker 1: year old home. But I have always been interested in architecture,
Speaker 1: and I have a profound appreciation for the skill and
Speaker 1: the and the the just the absolute amazing ability of
Speaker 1: old school craftsmen, what they were able to accomplish by
Speaker 1: way of woodwork and these historic homes. It's just to me,
Speaker 1: it's awe inspiring. That's as a trade that still exists
Speaker 1: through your Comington Academy of Heritage Trades.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, this is one of only a handful of opportunities
Speaker 3: like this in the entire country. And this is a
Speaker 3: wonderful project. It's a partnership, it's a public private partnership
Speaker 3: of the City of Covington. We also receive support for
Speaker 3: all of our trades, including the main Aswild Building Institute,
Speaker 3: the Kenton County government, several other resources, state government support.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of industry professionals that help us out.
Speaker 3: But getting into this, coming to thecavity of heritage trades,
Speaker 3: the City of Covington engaged a group called Place Economics
Speaker 3: and they did a study in northern Kentucky, specifically in
Speaker 3: the Covington area, our largest municipality, as to what is
Speaker 3: the state of historic architecture in the area, also just
Speaker 3: an inventory of older homes, what condition they're in, what
Speaker 3: are the major components in need of work, and so
Speaker 3: what we're looking to do as a partnership is to
Speaker 3: raise up this aging urban core infrastructure to be able
Speaker 3: to provide a quality housing for folks. Now, the study
Speaker 3: that was done by Economics also found out that if
Speaker 3: you are a trades person out there, if you work
Speaker 3: in the historic trades, you're looking to increase your pay
Speaker 3: by about nine percent. So there is a little bit
Speaker 3: of a level up there with regards to getting into
Speaker 3: this field. Now, it's a different field, right, so it's
Speaker 3: not looking at a set of blue prints and building
Speaker 3: something from the ground up. You have to be a specialist,
Speaker 3: and that's what this Academy is here to teach you
Speaker 3: to do, is to break down the barriers from somebody
Speaker 3: that works on the brand new build Greenshield environment to
Speaker 3: be able to transition over to the historic environment to
Speaker 3: understand it. Okay, if I'm going to get into that wall,
Speaker 3: what's behind it? For so ultimately that's really where the
Speaker 3: stumbling blocks are. And if we can help take those
Speaker 3: blocks out of the wall to transition people over to
Speaker 3: the historic trades, it's a profession. That's ultimately what the
Speaker 3: goal of the Academy is. So we can do that,
Speaker 3: we can build up the community. We can make sure
Speaker 3: that the urban core is just as healthy as a
Speaker 3: housing market as the new built suburban environment and serves
Speaker 3: because you know, every home is every home matters, and
Speaker 3: so yeah, everybody has to have a place in this,
Speaker 3: in this, in this, in this, in this world, and
Speaker 3: all markets, especially throughout Greater Cincinnati and of course in
Speaker 3: our corner of the world here in Northern Kentucky need
Speaker 3: to have a vibrant housing market in every pocket and
Speaker 3: in every corner. So that everybody and every income on
Speaker 3: strata can have a place to call home.
Speaker 1: Well, and from my perspective, Brian, they don't build them
Speaker 1: like they used to, and I mean they built them
Speaker 1: in the old days like they over built. I mean
Speaker 1: a know, soft two by fours in the walls of
Speaker 1: some of these older homes. But the program the coming
Speaker 1: to the academy trades. I'm looking at the list box cutters,
Speaker 1: historic masonry, historic carpentry work, plaster work which I mentioned before.
Speaker 1: It ain't drywall you're dealing with. It's plaster and lay
Speaker 1: than these historic homes. Historic painting work, stained in decorative glass,
Speaker 1: historic window restoration, weatherization along with wood floors. So those
Speaker 1: are the types of trades you learned old school methods
Speaker 1: which keeps the historic quality of the building going. I mean,
Speaker 1: then I imagine some of them. You suppose you could
Speaker 1: have a historic designated building, you have to comply with
Speaker 1: the original historic designs absolutely.
Speaker 3: I mean Covenson has several different historic overlay districts which
Speaker 3: are all unique to their subcommunities. So like Pieselberg, all
Speaker 3: these you know, mainstrews, all these different areas have all
Speaker 3: got their own characters years ago. The world was a
Speaker 3: lot smaller. We didn't get around that much and so
Speaker 3: you really have to learn how to conform to that
Speaker 3: historic code either you're in a historic zone or under
Speaker 3: a historic overlay, and you know, just an opportunity for
Speaker 3: you to not only you know, become a trade professional
Speaker 3: also increase your own home too. It just because it's
Speaker 3: called the Company Academy of Peri's Trades and not just
Speaker 3: open for the people that are inside the city of Kevington.
Speaker 3: We have folks from OTR all over the region that
Speaker 3: we love historic homes that are able to come out
Speaker 3: and benefit from these courses. So they run basically in
Speaker 3: a series of shops all year long. And if you
Speaker 3: want to find more information about that, that standalone website
Speaker 3: is Pritage Trade at Academy dot com. And to back up,
Speaker 3: that standalone website for the institute is Building Institute dot com.
Speaker 3: So we've got some great premier URLs out there that
Speaker 3: people can go check out. We've got a lot of
Speaker 3: data on there too, and this report we've recently released
Speaker 3: can also show you know, not just that nine percent
Speaker 3: uplift with a director working on historic structures, but if
Speaker 3: you want to take things to the next level, really
Speaker 3: driving your potential earning income will into the six figures.
Speaker 1: That's just a wonderful thing to hear. No college education,
Speaker 1: no leaving with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt
Speaker 1: and a class you had to sit through like music
Speaker 1: appreciation to get your degree. Brian Miller, keep Joe's trekers.
Speaker 1: What was that number again? I told just Trekker. Every
Speaker 1: time an opportunity like this comes on, Joe's got one
Speaker 1: foot out the door. Brian, Well, keep up the great work.
Speaker 1: I'll encourage my listeners go to my blog page fifty
Speaker 1: five KC dot com or they'll be able to hear
Speaker 1: this conversation. But also get the links that you mentioned
Speaker 1: and pursue a career. And if you're you have a
Speaker 1: young person in your world, steer them in this direction.
Speaker 1: I think they'll be very happy that they pursued the
Speaker 1: trades as opposed to a college education. Brian, keep up
Speaker 1: the great work. You can feel free to join the
Speaker 1: Morning Show anytime. If you got some updates or information
Speaker 1: on the trades, I'd love to have you back on.
Speaker 3: Also, my friend tell Jenn to strap on some steel
Speaker 3: tub before he had done over.
Speaker 1: I would but he already left the building. Thanks Brian.
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