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My parents signed me up for university, with the money my grandparents left to all the grand kids, and then took out a low interest student loan so they could invest it and keep the profits. The entire conversation amounted to them saying "You're going to this school" and my 18 year old dumbass saying "okay".

If I knew then what I know now, I would have used the money to put a downpayment on a house instead.

Dude there's kids that come on here that push against working in the trades because they think they won't make any money. In some of the push back, it was obvious that many people feel they are above manual labor or they're intimidated by it.


In the place that I work, we have software engineers that we hire. Every single one of them looks like they've never done any physical activity in their lives. The baby fat is still hanging on them. It's real obvious. The engineering team that I'm part of are all outdoorsmen and we're all very handy. We do PLC programming. The mechanical engineers are all super fit guys who are also very handy.


My team and the mechanical engineers work with all the different tradesmen on the factory floor. We're all friendly with each other. The software engineers have zero social skills and avoid the factory floor like it's lava. I laugh about this because programming isn't hard, it's just tedious.


Now, what I think is that software programmers are afraid of other people and want the insular job to avoid interacting with other people. This is why they are opposed to working in the trades.