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I graduated in August of '96 and until April of that year, I thought I had one more semester. So when a few jobs opportunities didn't pan out, I went to work for a mechanical company. We did commercial construction and I worked with the plumbers. For the first month or so I was the "go get" and manual labor type guy. After that I was doing a lot of the same work the journeymen plumbers were doing for a lot less. I always had one there checking my work etc.. I knew one of the senior management guys at the company that had started out in the field.
They offered me the apprenticeship program, but in my mind at the time I wanted to be a police officer, so I was applying to departments with POST certification schools where they paid you to attend. I ended up working in the security field and still am today.
With all of that said, I have used the plumbing skills I learned more times than I can count, including replacing all of the water lines in a friend of mines house and lots of jobs around my houses. I worked there for almost 8 months and it was hard, start at 5am done by 2pm type work (unless we work doing a turn off or something major) but it was fulfilling. By the end of the day I had accomplished something concrete.
I still have friends in the trade fields and they do well.
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