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we cultivate is healthier, safer, and
less environmentally impactful
than ever before. The people who
have the understanding and tech-
nical skills necessary to envision
or bring about these evolutions
will have significant opportunity
in the industry, and many of those
people will come from skilled
trades backgrounds.
Skilled
Service
Trades
One major point of confusion
around the skilled trades concerns
just how vast it can be. In partic-
ular, that confusion tends to
revolve around this sixth and final
segment of the field: the skilled
service trades.
The skilled service trades are
something of a catchall, featuring
a wide variety of career paths
that don’t fit into the other skilled
trades categories but are never-
theless often categorized as part
of the skilled trades. For instance,
many schools that offer career
and technical education opportu-
nities will host programs related to
these careers.