Congrats to your kids and you. Definitely raised them right.

My middle daughter got her HVAC journeymans license yesterday. I am really proud of her, she is 22 yrs old. She has always been the kind of person that everything she has tried has just come natural to her. My oldest son is a journeyman plumber and will be taking his masters test in may. I told my youngest son to go into electrical when he gets out of highschool and i will have all the bases covered. Lol

We have too many kids going to college and not enough in the trades. People tend to forget that college grads, myself included (engineering), need others to build their houses, fix their vehicles, and do the specialized maintenance work required to keep everything working. Those skills and careers should be just as highly valued in society as the careers that require a college degree. We are seeing a lot of college grads that got a degree in "Nothing Useful" and spent a butt load of money doing it. As a society we would be a lot better off if we could get the gov't out of the college loan business and return it to the private sector where it belongs. Private banks won't make loans for degrees that won't fund repayment of the loan.

In my recent travels I was talking to a young fellow traveling to Maine to pursue a degree in music at the University of Maine at Orono. An eighteen year old kid borrowing money for a four year degree at $50,000 a year. The country has learned nothing.