Seems like a lot of y’all know a good amount about construction

Nope. More management, estimating, finance, construction process and nomenclature.

Gives you a solid oversight of the industry and tools to get in the door.

You won't become a skilled builder by graduating in CM.

Started young by helping do my first roof at age 12 with one of my uncles and a couple of his kids a couple years older than me.

Worked for him on his side jobs for years and three of his 4 sons went into construction, so I worked with them all over N.O.

Then between buying fixer-upper houses and redoing them, getting into furniture building, cabinetmaking, etc. I just learned more and more. I can go from framing to final finishing.

Hands-on experience is invaluable in any line of work.

Just having a lot of renovations done to your own home is experience enough.

I worked for a home builder as draftsman a couple of summers in college. And I am a landscape architect so had some structural design (mostly decks but the construction is pretty much the same as for a house) and grading/retaining wall design classes. But I had to get out in the real world and go to job sites and see how these things were being built for it all to click. Then I started buying rental property and doing my own renovations and after paying a plumber a couple of times learned how to sweat copper and do my own plumbing. And then I taught myself basic electrical wiring and now have completely rewired a couple of places.

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How did y’all learn this stuff?

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Watching This Old House, Chip and Joanna and that dude named Mike from Canada. Taught me everything I know.

My dad built a lot of structures and such and is allergic to paying another human for something he (or his sons) could do.

His father was a carpenter, rough and finished, and we got to work with him a lot since he was retired my whole life.

Start watching Matt Risinger on YouTube.

Buy a house that will flood and then rebuild.