{"id":418059,"date":"2026-04-26T07:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418059\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T07:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:02:14","slug":"are-plumbers-and-electricians-really-the-new-millionaire-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/418059\/","title":{"rendered":"Are plumbers and electricians really the new millionaire class?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Nvidia boss Jensen Huang says electricians, plumbers and carpenters will be the real winners of the AI boom. But just how lucrative have these \u2018AI-proof\u2019 professions become?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"As AI threatens office jobs, demand has increased for skilled tradespeople. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/ee6e011f-f989-467e-9633-dfbc86ea4a3d.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">As AI threatens office jobs, demand has increased for skilled tradespeople. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">For decades, a trade was what you did instead of a degree. Now the future for graduates is not looking as bright as it did a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The shift in how Ireland talks about electricians and plumbers has happened quickly, Leaving Cert parents are quietly reconsidering the CAO form, and the &#8220;new millionaire class&#8221; story has moved from quieter corners of career advice into the mainstream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nvidia boss Jensen Huang says electricians, plumbers and carpenters will be the real winners of the AI boom.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,7781,61,60],"class_list":["post-418059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-geraldine-herbert","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}