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What Does Your Daddy Do? by Joshua Page Shows Kids the Cool Side of the Trades
What Does Your Daddy Do? Shows Kids the Cool Side of the Trades Boston, October 10, 2022 — Career training opportunities and certifications offered in high school may not come soon enough for some students, posits Joshua Page, an electrician and author of the engaging new children’s book, What Does Your Daddy Do? “For about the last five or six years, I was being asked to go to career days at high schools and speak about becoming an electrician,” Page said in a recent interview. “But I didn’t think I was making a big enough impact. I thought those kids were a little too old; they had already made up their minds;…
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College Isn’t the Only Option: Children’s Book Aims to Spark Interest in the Trades Press Release
College Isn’t the Only Option: Children’s Book Aims to Spark Interest in the Trades Boston, MA, Joshua Page is an electrician by trade, but his other passion is destigmatizing Society’s view of occupations like his and spreading the word that college isn’t the only avenue worth pursuing. “So many kids don’t even know ‘trades’ exist. Their parents push them to college so much, and now we are seeing the effects of that,” Page said, pointing out that student loan debt in the U.S. is more than $1.7 trillion. With the average ages of electricians and plumbers hovering in the 40s, Page felt compelled to do his part to inspire…
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