You're writing style; as shown in your initial post on this thread, shows that it would be a mistake for you to forego college.

Being an automotive technician is admirable work, but your options are greater with the degree.

I've done manual labor, technical work, and professional activity. I've shined shoes, done construction work and been an asst. professor in the UC system. TRUST me on this one!! Get the degree(s). It's not that it means that you are in a "higher" echelon (it doesn't). What it is; is another tool for YOU to use in life, however YOU want.

It's much more difficult to go back to school, than to go back to automotive technology.

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