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[quote=Anonymous]Most of these jobs are what the people in the working class neighborhood I grew up in did. Almost every single one of the people who do these jobs would cry if their children followed in their footsteps and work as hard as they do to give their kids a chance to escape that life. Now, if you're talking about being an OWNER of a company that offers these skills to clients, that's another thing entirely. If you can subsidize your kid to start a business with the money you saved by not sending them to college, then that might be a good idea.

I just have to laugh at the idea that a security guard or a bartender is something that anyone in their right mind would want to do after about the age of 40. And a nurse's aid? Are you kidding me? Why don't you just go ahead and suggest that he work as an orderly in a retirement home?

The two exceptions that popped out were electrician and HVAC if you are really smart and and can go through all the schooling/training/testing required to become a Master level tradesman. Most kids who go to college couldn't hack that. Underwater welding will pay very well, but it's not something you can do after you are beyond middle age unless you don't mind dying a pretty horrible death.

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