Instead of college, many head for building trades and unions.
Instead of taking classes in history or sociology at a four-year college, Curtis Bowmar and Mitch Campbell are in class learning how to hang drywall and install metal beams and studs.
They’re two of the many who are bypassing four years of college — and the debt that comes with it — to enter the trades.
Bowmar and Campbell are in the workforce, working for construction companies. But they’re also in the carpenters union, getting additional training as apprentices. Every three months, they’ll leave their jobs for a one-week set of classes at the union training center.
Both in their early 20’s, did they think about going to college?
“Yes, and I thought that I didn’t want to go,” said Bowmar.
From MSN