My father even though he was valedictorian of his senior High School Class was not allowed by his father to go to college and my father was angry about this his whole life. His two brothers were not allowed to go to college either. However, their two sisters went to college to marry College men and the older sister succeeded at this.
When I came along around 1950 or so my father having gone through the Great Depression wanted me to have a trade like his father taught him to be an Electrician building houses as my Grandfather was an Electrical Contractor who built things from Texas to Kansas to California and north to Oregon and Washington. And he bought a house in Seattle in 1927 since my father was born in 1916 and he had a brother born in 1912 and the youngest sister likely was born by 1922 or around there somewhere.
So, my father having been through the Great Depression and having graduated in 1934 and also having to deal with World war II where he and his older brother were electricians building Liberty ships. Also, they were both married (my father married at age 21) and his brother (oldest brother might have been married by age 19 or 20 then.
So, as I grew up my father wanted me to got to college but also wanted me to learn a trade just like himself and his two brothers learned the Electrical Trade. Also, my father's older brother and my father both became Electrical Contractors, he brother in Seattle and my father in Los Angeles County.
So starting about age 9 or 10 I learned the electrical trade starting doing a work trade for a dentist who was a friend of my father's and he had me work with him on weekends for this dentist at his house and the dentist fixed my teeth from the time I was 6 years old until I was about 18 years old or so when my wisdom teeth were removed.
Then at age 12 I was still only 5 foot 2 then so he had me crawl under houses with cat poo and black widow spiders and where other wild animals had been to pull the wire under the houses (especially remodels) because I was the only one small enough then to go under the houses some places.
I saved him so much money that he started paying me really good during summers and I could buy myself things like what is called a Mini bike which is a 2 1/2 horsepower small motorcycle with a centrifugal Clutch and I bought myself a record player and the first cassette player Sears sold. and at age 16 I bought my first car a 1956 Ford Station wagon for 800 dollars in 1964 one month after I got my driver's license.
So, even as I started college to become a computer programmer I already had a trade as an electrician before this. And later I also learned Carpentry skills during and after college and I learned to drive large trucks as well to pay for my college and I hauled Flowers in an enclosed truck the largest allowed without a special license while driving a 16 speed manual shift Diesel Truck from San Marcos to the Los Angeles Flower market and back. This worked for me because I started my drive to the Flower Market around 3 or 4 pm and I got back between 11 and midnight then.
So, the point is having more than one trade often helps you in life. For example, white collar workers often died during the Great depression camped by the side of a river from starvation because there was no unemployment compensation then and no Social Security during the Great Depression yet either. So, many people died and were forgotten then who were white collar workers.
So, if you train as an electrician, a plumber, a carpenter or other building trades you will likely always have a job even if Trump and Musk Create the Next Great Depression within a year or two or sooner by all their crazy crazy shenanigans.
Think about what I'm saying if you want to financially survive these two rich elitist idiots playing God with everyone's lives on earth and failing miserably.
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