I personally would choose a skilled trade, because if you know what you like to do, if you know what you want to work with, you shouldn’t choose to get a lot of student debt for the rest of your life, just to be able to do what you wanted to do in the first place.
It’s like throwing money to the wind, which just blows away. But that is just me. Someone else might think different.
I work in construction and it seems like damn near every tradesman is a divorced alcoholic with chronic pain. Many tell me they are working hard to afford to send their kids to college so they won’t have to live the life they do.
Never went to college because my dad didn’t believe in higher education. He did make/ forced me to learn the flooring trade. (Carpet installer). Which he did until 30 days ago and doc forced him to retire. He’s 78 years old
So I’ve been working with my dad since I was in the 4th grade. I’ll be 49 years old this year and that the only job I’ve ever had. Come July this year it will be 20 years of me being self employed and owning my own business. I currently have 2 full time employees working for my company.
I took the trade my father taught me, and expanded on it. Now I do all type of flooring not just carpet. I do carpet, hardwood floors, lvp, and baseboards. So there is so much more opportunities to make money being able to do everything flooring expect tile, instead of just one flooring trade carpet.
If I had a son, I’d make sure he got a college education but I’d also teach him the flooring trade. So he’d have an understanding of what I did!!
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I did both.
I personally would choose a skilled trade, because if you know what you like to do, if you know what you want to work with, you shouldn’t choose to get a lot of student debt for the rest of your life, just to be able to do what you wanted to do in the first place.
It’s like throwing money to the wind, which just blows away. But that is just me. Someone else might think different.
I work in construction and it seems like damn near every tradesman is a divorced alcoholic with chronic pain. Many tell me they are working hard to afford to send their kids to college so they won’t have to live the life they do.
Never went to college because my dad didn’t believe in higher education. He did make/ forced me to learn the flooring trade. (Carpet installer). Which he did until 30 days ago and doc forced him to retire. He’s 78 years old
So I’ve been working with my dad since I was in the 4th grade. I’ll be 49 years old this year and that the only job I’ve ever had. Come July this year it will be 20 years of me being self employed and owning my own business. I currently have 2 full time employees working for my company.
I took the trade my father taught me, and expanded on it. Now I do all type of flooring not just carpet. I do carpet, hardwood floors, lvp, and baseboards. So there is so much more opportunities to make money being able to do everything flooring expect tile, instead of just one flooring trade carpet.
If I had a son, I’d make sure he got a college education but I’d also teach him the flooring trade. So he’d have an understanding of what I did!!
I feel both are valid career pathways.
If I could do it over again I’d probably go for a skilled trade tbh