THIS. I mentioned it before and I’ll say it again, the rail road is one of the very few careers you can get into with no college education and make $50,000 your first year. Any kid fresh out of college would jump at a salary like that. I imagine anyone that can pass a drug test and adjust to working a crazy work schedule that truly needed a job to support themselves or a family would be crazy if they turned it down.
School isn’t for everyone and at the time I thought it wasn’t for me either but I do know now how incredibly important education is, especially in today’s economy.