Watch on YouTube: 10 Reasons A Trade School Career Might Be A Good Fit
If you’re not interested in college, here’s 10 ways to find out if a trade school job is for you.
When you’re a young man it seems like you always hear people telling you to go to college, get a degree, then get a good job. But not everybody is cut out for college, or wants to go, or even wants to get the kind of job where you need a degree.
If you’re not interested in college, here’s 10 ways to find out if a trade school career is for you.
Number 1:
You like working with your hands, such as working with tools, fixing up your car, or maybe you have a hobby building and putting things together.
Number 2:
If you are an outdoorsman, and you like being outside and exercising. While some trade careers are in a factory or in a shop, theres lots of jobs where you can work outdoors with your body. Some of them can even be exciting as well as rewarding.
Number 3:
You want a good paying job that doesn’t require a college degree. There are a variety of ways that you can become proficient in a trade job. Some require attending a trade school for your certification, but others require an apprenticeship, and some even teach you the job as you work. Depending on what you want to do and how fast you want to advance the career path is there for you.
Number 4:
You want to get paid now, not in 4 years. You can be earning and saving while people in college are still racking up debt. By the time they graduate (if they graduate – even at the best 4 year universities only about 36% of students are expected to graduate within 4 years, and only about 57% within 8 years) so by getting out and establishing your career you’ll be far ahead of those who go to college.
Number 5:
You don’t want to go into massive debt. The average student loan debt for 2016 college graduates who borrowed to get through school was $37,172. If a 2016 graduate took the standard repayment plan for that $37 grand borrowed – 10 years, at 4.29% interest – they would be paying $382 a month for the next decade. – https://www.debt.org/students/
Number 6:
You don’t want to work in a boring office or a cubicle. Let me say that again: you don’t want to work in a boring office or a cubicle.
Number 7:
You don’t like to be bored. You don’t want to spend your day sitting in pointless meetings. You still have to do your job, just now you have less time to do it. Take a good look at this photo: these people are bored and fighting to keep from falling asleep. You don’t want do this to yourself.
Number 8:
You want to get paid to learn. Many trade jobs have paid on-the-job training. For some jobs you’ll earn more as an apprentice than the starting salary at many jobs that require a college degree.
Number 9:
Many trade jobs are expanding. As long as countries are growing there will be a need for workers who build and maintain the infrastructure and production. If you choose wisely you can pick a career that offers you steady work and the opportunity to advance and grow. Even if you find that opportunities are drying up in one line of work, your experience and your work history and reputation will make it easier to transistion to another line of work.
Number 10:
You don’t want to worry about having to compete with your coworkers to climb some corporate ladder. You want to be part of a team who gets things done together, and a good, smart hard working guy who shows up at the job site on time and does his work right and who gets along with his coworkers is worth his weight in gold and he’ll always be in demand.
If you think some of these attributes described you then a trade school career might be a great fit.
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