{"id":25,"date":"2018-03-28T17:54:34","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T17:54:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scmn.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2018-volume-2-issue-1\/building-a-career-in-carpentry\/"},"modified":"2019-04-12T18:54:53","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T18:54:53","slug":"building-a-career-in-carpentry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scmn.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-1-issue-3\/building-a-career-in-carpentry\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a Career in Carpentry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Carpentry students at South Central College had a great field project to work on recently thanks in large part to the generosity of our community partner Met-Con, a regional commercial construction company.\u00a0According to carpentry instructor Mark Paddock, the carpentry program is all about learning the basics in the classroom and getting hands-on experience out in the field working on remodeling or home-addition projects. Last year, students got to build a house.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">The students began building a brand new home in Faribault as a \u201cliving lab\u201d where they applied their carpentry skills under the supervision of their instructor Mark Paddock and Met-Con construction managers. Met-Con has been a long-standing partner of SCC\u2019s Carpentry program and on this particular project, Met-Con provided the lot, general contracting services and supplies.\u00a0The build started out as a \u201cspec home,\u201d but has since been sold and occupied.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Not only did the students gain valuable experience by working on this large scale, real-world project, but they are gained unique educational perspective from being involved in all phases of the project.\u00a0\u201cThis group had the opportunity to see this project from when it was a patch of grass and see it all the way through until the finished product,\u201d said Jesse Akemann of Met-Con.\u00a0In addition, each of the students received a $500 scholarship from Met-Con.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans Bold';\">Demand for carpenters is strong\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Open Sans';\">Today, rebounding after the construction slow-down that occurred nearly a decade ago, programs like SCC\u2019s Carpentry program are being inundated with requests from companies looking to hire carpenters.\u00a0In fact, with the number of carpenters that are retiring, demand for well-trained, educated carpenters only continues to grow.\u00a0\u201cThere is a very real shortage of general carpenters,\u201d says Paddock.\u00a0\u201cContractors want educated employees and they\u2019re waiting in line for our students.\u201d\u00a0In keeping with the large demand for a skilled workforce, wages go up.\u00a0\u201cStudents can make a really good living.\u00a0There are huge opportunities out there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carpentry students at South Central College had a great field project to work on recently thanks in large part to the generosity of our community partner Met-Con, a regional commercial construction company.\u00a0According to carpentry instructor Mark Paddock, the carpentry program is all about learning the basics in the classroom and getting hands-on experience out in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/scmn.mycareerfocus.org\/spring-2019-volume-1-issue-3\/building-a-career-in-carpentry\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"article_type":[],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-construction-and-architecture","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3.1 (Yoast SEO v25.3.1) - 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