27-year-old Lexis Czumak-Abreeu belongs to Gen Z and represents a trend: she actually wanted to become a surgeon, but switched to the skilled trades during the Covid pandemic. Today she is an electrician and a social media star.
What is this trend among Generation Z? Members of Generation Z are now between 12 and 27 years old. As some media reports, there is a trend among the older part of Generation Z to turn away from studying and prefer to take up skilled trades.
27-year-old Lexis Czmak-Abreu originally planned to be a surgeon, but now works full-time as an electrician in upstate New York.
She shows her work on Instagram and is successful with it.
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In medicine she had too much to do with people and she didn’t like that
This is what she says about her career change: She actually wanted to study medicine because her mother works as a doctor’s assistant.
But while working in the hospital, where she had to take blood from people, the 27-year-old realized how much she hated the job. She didn’t like dealing with people at all. She can talk to people, but it doesn’t suit her and she prefers to work alone, she tells Business Insider.
She therefore left medicine and worked as a personal trainer. She had already started this work during her studies, but here too she had to deal with these people again. She also did some electrical work.
On TikTok, “LextheElecrtician” has over 1 million followers:
Electricians were systemically important during the pandemic
This is how she became an electrician: During the Covid pandemic, she was no longer able to work in her temporary job as a personal trainer, but electricians were systemically important. And she had already started electrical work as a part-time job.
Today she works a 40-hour week as an electrician and loves the variety in everyday life; she is in a different place every day. She also feels like she’s really done her work when she’s done working for the day. It feels like she can finish one job and start the next – and not just do one job that never ends.
This job also has its disadvantages, as she explains: She has already received minor power surges, but has now become much more careful. The job is also physically demanding. You always have to lift heavy copper cables or larger pipes, so train in the gym to keep up with men. Sometimes she has to handle things that are twice as heavy as she is. But that is still better than an office job.
As the Spanish site 3DJuegos reports, Lexis Czumak-Abreau aka “LextheElectrican” is also successful on Instagram, where she shows her work in postings. Since 2022, she has been combining her job as an electrician with work as an influencer and is apparently having a lot of success with other members of Generation Z – perhaps with the very people who are stuck in these endless office jobs and long to get some work done. She earns around $200,000 (€182,000) a year with her work, but she still doesn’t want to give up her job: Generation Z has just made a tough decision: they’re starting to work