Originally Posted by davestlouis

I work with body men who make more than several physicians I know, and the body men don't have $150K in school loans hanging over their heads. My parents' cleaning lady makes more cleaning houses than teaching high school English and doesn't have to deal with obnoxious teens anymore. Several of my kids don't look like college material to me, and while I have joked for years that I'm gonna send them to air conditioning school, it's starting to look like a good idea. One of my co-workers just got his son into the operating engineers' apprenticeship program: he'll be operating earthmoving equipment and dozers, and making a good wage. This is a kid who is none-too-swift, per his father, and would have never made it at Mizzou.