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Originally Posted by ckelly78z
My son is a good, hard working senior, football player who loves leaving school to go to Millstream career center, and work on cars, and shop projects. He has earned most of his ASE certifications, and has no real interest in going to a 4 year college, but would like to get into diesel tech....which I have no problem with. One of his senior classes in regular high school, was a SAT prep class, that was at the same time of the day as his time at the career center. He/we elected not to take the class, or the SAT test.
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It is great that you support your son in his choices but you really have to look long term in this case. That is a very hard road to take for the long term. 20 years from now when all of his white collar friends are off on Friday playing golf, he will be working 6 days a week trying to make a paycheck. Getting paid flat rate SUCKS.. and unlike most careers where the longer you are in a career or with a company, the more you get paid, with flat rate, the longer you are in it, the less and less and you will make and the harder it will be to make money as you get older. I certainly mean no disrespect but just telling it like it is from someone who has been down that road. Of course there are success stories also, but they really are a small percentage.