Thanks again. I’ll share your comments with him. I suspect his interest in HVAC is driven by the fact that we run our a/c most of the year down here and it has become increasingly difficult to get a trustworthy contractor down here. I have a real gem but, like all of us, he is getting older and is talking about retiring.
Grandson said he has begun to notice that his creative design and artistic ability has begun to leave him as he has “gotten older”. Sometimes it’s a hoot to talk with him at the ripe old age of 16. He seems to have taken on a serious side this last year though - probably some due to the fact that he and I talk a lot about the state of the world and politics. Other grandson is ten years older and I find it interesting to contrast and compare the life of my son and both grandsons when they were each 16. Everything has changed so much over the course of their lives.
We all change a lot from our ‘teens to our 50s. That’s one reason I think it’s unreasonable to expect 18-year-olds to choose a life plan and invest huge amounts of money in it. If you spend a couple thousand on a trade course, you can work at it until you decide on the next thing, and realistically believe you got your money’s worth.