re: Is there anything that I should know before trade school?

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Do NOT go to trade school for machinist or CNC programming.

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One of the most overbearing assholes I ever did IT contracting work for was a steel guy. It's probably not industry/material specific, but he was obsessed with blocking every possible non work aspect of computer functionality. I was just setting up racks and pulling cable, and I felt bad for the 20ish people working for him. He had us block DandyDon and other sites explicitly. It takes someone that's slow all of eight minutes to get through the posts every day? The horror.

Do something where you're in a truck by yourself, quickly, and run your own life. You get to manipulate your schedule, you get to pad it where you need it, etc. If you learn the technique now, before you graduate high school, you will be the hammer. Find a guy (If they're still working) that is Vietnam era, and they'll teach you how to do it the right way.

I concur with Tangineck, if it involves CAD, you're probably going to be around OCD people, whether it is architecture, steel, CNC, or something else. You need to learn to deal with people you don't necessarily like, but you also don't need to seek that out at this point in your maturity. You need to work at a place where you have sufficient rope to learn how to get better.