Yes, I agree with most everyone here. Being only 28 years old, and a business owner with many regrets still. I own a trucking company, of which I also drive one of my trucks. I wish, so often that I had persued something else though. I make a $hit load of money, but still not happy. I two major accounts with a leer service and ship items all over the world which also gets me world travel, to meet new clients. Still not happy.. Wish I'd done something else,Teacher perhaps, anything to do with wildlife or science, executive/Office related. Or Law enforcement, CIA,DEA,FBI something along those lines. The point I'm making is.
I was more or less forced to either get out into the work force, or go to college. My father and mother gave me problems while I tried to "Find myself".
My father forbade me from his business (International arms dealer) due to politics, legal and illegal practices, morals, ethics, and generally a bad way of life. See movie called "Lord of war" Nicholas Cage = My father. Anyways, being forbidden from the "Family Business" and not sure yet what I wanted to do. I was more or less pressured into the work force by my parental units. This is a regret now for me. I feel if they had given me a chance, to "Find myself" I'd be doing something more self fulfilling. Money is definately nowhere near everything. I can spend, and spend for the rest of my life right now with the money I've got put away, and not be happy. I have plans for attending school again full time in September. I'm taking placement tests, and going to finally decide on which one of these options I'll go with. Since I love kids, and passing knowledge on. I will probably persue a career in teaching. I don't need money as I said, but I will be happy with the job. Of course I'll keep my trucks, and Company and it will run itself as it has for a while now anyways. I'll just be out of the truck, and in college, and working instead. Let your son think for a while, about what he'd like to do for himself.
At that age, and with the way kids, and education are today, it is wiser to let him choose, and take his time doing it. Do not worry. He will make a sound decision for himself and he will also consult you for input on it before he finalizes his plan. If it's a year from now, so be it. Just try not to let him get stuck too far in the work force, for atleast a year. (In other words, No career type jobs w/unions, or any of that) No major commitments, with long term obligations. If he ends up in some union job, or something like that, it is possible that he will be blinded by the bennies, pay whatever. He may regret a decision to stay there, a couple of years from now, and have wasted a lot of time finding out. Keep us posted

Hey, One more thing...Keep him out of a big truck, if you can. It's a business a lot of drivers, unintentionally get "sucked into" and regret after time. Most drivers out here started by saying..."I'll drive for a few years, see the country, and go do something else" This doesn't work. It's hard to persue something else if you're behind the wheel of a truck all the time. You can't attend college (Unless online Joke) and you can't even put in a job application, or check out places for school or work. I can't look at colleges, for full time school, 'til I get my rear-end out of the truck perminently. Today I'm in Ohio, Yeterday, Nebraska, tomorrow North Carolina. No time /way, to do much else.