re: If you have kids starting to search for college/career... what is left worth pursuing?

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Everyone saying learn a trade and start a business is the equivalent of people saying learn to code then develop an app.

If it was easy everyone would do it

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It's not THAT hard. Just depends on how hard you want to work, the work quality, and your risk tolerance. I have another friend who was bored with his job, so he went to learn how to be a plumber. He started doing plumbing as a side hustle, but was soon making more per hour plumbing than at his regular job. His company was cutting costs and offered to let him keep his health insurance if he'd go to part-time. He jumped at it.

Now he works 4 hours in the morning at his old job, then does plumbing in the afternoon/evenings. It's just him, a Chevy Silverado with a big tool box, and a cell phone. He IS the business. He doesn't want to manage some massive enterprise like my other friend, but he's probably knocking down $150K just on the plumbing.