Good point. I agree with you. My son is in his final year in High School. He doesn’t know what he wants to do and has decided to go Air Force. School is torture. He has taken all his important classes and basically has boring make work now...we have to keep him focused-not easy.
Good luck to the son.
My Mothers dad only went through to about the 9th or 10th grade and I posit he could still hand most college educated mechanical engineers their asses to this day (he was born in 1912). He went into apprenticeship programs and became a Millwright [sp?] later moving into power plant and heavy industrial work. Later jobs included doing stuff like insuring correct tolerances on multi ton rotor installations into power house turbines.
We got a good laugh a year or so back when a rep from his union called up and requested a letter documenting that he was still alive, they couldn’t believe they’d had a genuine pensioner on the books for approaching 40 years.