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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Trade schools are fine, but the skills you learn can become obsolete with technology and robots. Also, you can only do physical labor for a certain period of time before you burn out or become too old to do the job. Plumbers and electricians can only make as much money as electrical and mechanical engineers if they own their own business, in which case, they are business people, not plumbers and electricians.
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Not sure what your experience has been but working plumbers and electricians make more than most. If they work for themselves they control their destiny but if they work for someone else they are promoted and run projects. Both of our family members did that, started at the bottom and worked their way up the ladder. Our son, no college degree, makes 125K a year and has been in his trade for 15 years, our nephew makes 110K a year and gradutated trade school 5 years ago. It's been an old argument parents use to convince college is their future, but I see a lot of graduates waiting tables, driving Uber or working at Disney. My point is that you don't need college to find a good paying job....that's a myth.