Uh no. Our culture and society have told folks to go to college for so long like it’s their only chance for success.

I put on a tool belt as a kid because I didn’t have the opportunity to go to school. It was either learn a trade or fail into the pit of despair that is the hospitality industry.

I’m in the south so we don’t have the benefits of union training.

A union carpenter with one year of on the job training will run circles around a veteran carpenter from the south with 15-20 years of experience who never had access to such training.