BINGO!
The NEA , et al, needs to strengthen the VO-Tech classes they killed off and get away from the everyone needs a college degree crap.
I went to CC and took Welding technology and became a pipefitter welder for 15 years. Then I went back to CC and graduated from the Engineering Tech program, that eventually led me to graduate with my Bachelors in Civil Engineering and become a Professional Engineer.
A formal college education wasn’t for me directly out of HS.