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BUMPED2002 posted...

CTLM posted...

Depends on what you're thinking of majoring in and your life. For me, it's a good choice because I can start out at 75k and possibly move up in the world or I can take an easier approach and teach.

Trade school might have been easier/ better 20 years ago for me but I can't do the heavy duty work like I used to. Hard to argue with $60 an hour for an HVAC job though.

My uncle actually went to trade school while in high school in the late 1970s (he graduated in 1979 I think) and he told me back then when you reached your junior year of high school, you had an option of attending regular school for half the day and then attend a trade school for the rest of the day. He did that and learned auto mechanics and he now owns 4 repair shops and he says his biggest gripe now is no one is being trained to repair the newest cars that are all computerized so he has a hard time finding skilled mechanics/auto techs.

I couldn't go that trade school route in high school because I took advantage of a program that allowed you to get your high school diploma for taking college classes. Yes, it is kind of backwards in a way. Drop out of high school to take college classes and graduate high school ahead of time (and get a degree in the process) or drop out, have to wait until your class graduates to only then be allowed to get a GED (something that if you have, almost every business locally will simply not hire you).

Before I left, I signed up to be trained electrician. Only could do it a year because of my colorblindness (whereas most did it two). Still would have been helpful, I think.

I did not know much about cars, but knew automotive was not in my future. It turned out it was not for many of took the program then and now. My area is simply inundated and not enough jobs. Lack of training is not the problem.

Turns out training hundreds of kids a year for a job that does not even have two hundred jobs available leaves many with a wasted education. Plus the adult education program that teaches hundreds a year for the same jobs running concurrently creates even more issues.