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I agree, Richard. Part of the problem, though, is that the emphasis on college has made it harder for those who like working with their hands to make a living at it. It's also made a degree of some kind, however irrelevant, a pre-requisite for certain jobs, when there is no correlation between that sort of education and that job.
When I was 18 I worked at the Indiana State Department of Health in Provider Relations for the Children's Special Health Care Services program. When I resigned my boss said that he had had grave doubts when I started (through a temp agency) because he'd had people who had successfully run their own businesses who hadn't been able to keep up with the demands of the position. But he added that I had done well in it, and although I made some negotiations with VPs at CVS, for instance, I never felt that it was a stressful job.
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