Getting your license is fairly simple. You need to learn some basics, but those are easily done via classes (our group will start a series of classes in a few weeks... finishing with the testing) or you can learn on line like I did. ( hamtestonline.com ) My 10 year old son passed his test, and I as a 50+ year old mom got my license as well. Mr G has been a ham for over 50 years.
There are lots of reasons for having your license. Recently we had a snow emergency in town and all cell phones were tied up or down. One ham called his wife via radio to let her know he was OK, though hours stuck in traffic.
A neighboring state had an ice storm and the emergency manager assumed all was well in a hard hit county since he hadn’t heard from them. Some of our guys went up and found all phone lines and police radios were down because of the ice. They took pictures and sent them and text via winlink and got help.
We also arranged for help in a neighboring county during the big flood we had here in Tennessee. All their power was out, phone lines and emergency radios were down and they were cut off by water. There were 80 people in a shelter who needed help. We arranged for a ham to be at the shelter and set up communications with the red cross, who got the national guard on site.
The main reason to get a license is once you have it it is difficult to take way.