Seaberg: The trades — from blue collar to blue chip jobs

Imagine graduating from high school and hearing, “We’ll pay you to continue your education and have steady work building tech campuses, hospitals, schools, data centers and clean-energy projects. You’ll earn enough to buy a house in the San Francisco Bay Area, raise a family and retire with dignity.” It may sound like a pipe dream — or a scam. It’s neither. It’s the construction trades.