A post-secondary alternative to college or university. Trade school is often a two-year degree with small classes and hands on training. This is achieved by rolling admission and allows for excellent student/teacher ratios.
An excellent choice for students obsessed with one certain interest, trade school rejects the college "well-rounded" approach and instead masters one specific topic. Like art school, these students often build portfolios to show potential employers, making them more desirable candidates.
The best part about trade school is the living situation. Since most of these schools don't accommodate students on campus, they live on their own in the real world. This allows them to get a jump start on their college-bound brethren who live in the artificial "bubble" of college campuses.
Due to the unprecedented amount of college graduates, the job market for them is extremely competitive. Not so much for associate degrees. Jobs such as electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, and gunsmith will always be in demand, not to mention that they pay pretty well too.
It truly is the "working man's education"
An excellent choice for students obsessed with one certain interest, trade school rejects the college "well-rounded" approach and instead masters one specific topic. Like art school, these students often build portfolios to show potential employers, making them more desirable candidates.
The best part about trade school is the living situation. Since most of these schools don't accommodate students on campus, they live on their own in the real world. This allows them to get a jump start on their college-bound brethren who live in the artificial "bubble" of college campuses.
Due to the unprecedented amount of college graduates, the job market for them is extremely competitive. Not so much for associate degrees. Jobs such as electrician, plumber, carpenter, mechanic, and gunsmith will always be in demand, not to mention that they pay pretty well too.
It truly is the "working man's education"
Guy: Jeff just graduated from trade school and makes good money as an auto mechanic.
Girl: Eww I wouldn't want to do that.
Guy: Well, he does.
Girl: Eww I wouldn't want to do that.
Guy: Well, he does.
by Indomitable798 October 03, 2010
alternate method of trading. term mainly coming from the business ran by aimer in counterblox, being the act of selling CB skins for real life money or other currency!
"wow team cringe is alt trading again"-random
"and theres nothing we can do to stop it"-rolve gamemod
"and theres nothing we can do to stop it"-rolve gamemod
by ang9rcb August 31, 2020
When someone takes some shit you left on the curb and replaces it with lesser quality shit of their own.
Bill: "Dude, I put my old armchair on the curb last night and this morning found a love seat! WTF?"
Marv: "You got curb traded my friend."
Bill: Shit.
Marv: "You got curb traded my friend."
Bill: Shit.
by mnijc2 October 18, 2010
by Audrey El November 22, 2005
violent, often brutal sex acts, or a person, usually a male prostitute, who looks like they participate in such acts.
My boyfriend looks like rough trade.
by julie September 08, 2003
An expensive pieces of cardboard (normally £5/$8) that are cool for about 10 minutes until a new type of cards come out and then they will have thrown their cards away or left them for about a year and sold them on e-bay.
by hugh jaas April 09, 2005
the amount of goods and services that a country imports, minus the goods and services that it exports *in a calendar year*. In 1999 Japan exported much more than it imported, so it had a trade surplus. The same year, the United States imported more than it exported, and therefore had a large trade deficit.
While Japan had a trade surplus and the USA had a trade deficit, both had something called a trade balance, which was negative for the USA and positive for Japan.
While Japan had a trade surplus and the USA had a trade deficit, both had something called a trade balance, which was negative for the USA and positive for Japan.
During economic downturns, political leaders become very concerned if their country is running a trade deficit, because it means that jobs are being lost to business overseas.
by Abu Yahya February 14, 2009