General contractror, electrical, plumbing and heating, diesel/auto mechanics, big need for airline pilots.
What does he LIKE to do - that would be a hint. Needs to have fire in the belly for whatever.
Story here- A friend was in same position with his son a couple decades ago. Chuck said he wanted to be an auto mechanic. His Dad asked if he didn't think he should go to college first, then if he still wanted to be a mechanic, go for it.
Chuck pointed to the service manager at the garage they were in and asked his Dad what he thought the guy made. "$35-40K annually".
"Put a 1 in front of that", Chuck said.
"OK- you can be a mechanic!"
Chuck, whom I last saw this summer in Fairbanks, is now Nisson's SE (US), service supervisor, over 150 service managers and 1500 service technitians. Several years ago, they moved into their $1.5M dollar Tennessee home his wife designed. He travels to Japan half a dozen times a year to provide input to the design engineers and other reasons.
Not bad for a kid who grew up mostly in Arctic Eskimo villages.
His biggest complaint is that he seldom gets to turn a wrench anymore - nearly all his workload is on the computer and meetings.
