Alternatives to College

JackH2021
Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:14:52 +0000

Absolutely, which is why skilled trades have apprenticeships where new hires perform coursework in addition to their hands-on fieldwork. As with engineering majors, there is a hierarchy among the trades, with the most skilled (electricians) at the top, and unskilled (construction laborer) at the bottom. Anyone can be a construction laborer or painter, but not everyone will make it through an electrical apprenticeship and pass the state exam.

This may be considered heresy in this forum, but many college students in soft humanities majors (think Eng Lit or anything that ends in “studies”) would have a hard time becoming an electrician, operating engineer, or CNC machine operator.