My Word | Trades Day opens doors to career pathways

My Word | Trades Day opens doors to career pathways

By Jada Brotman When I graduated from high school — way back in the last century — the kids who were going into the trades were tracked into different classes. If you were “college bound,” you went one direction. If not, you went another. If you weren’t lucky enough to grow up around someone in the trades, you might have believed a couple of myths as I did. The first was that all men knew how to fix plumbing or frame a wall. I was in for a sad d…