I was very surprised when my old high school principal called me up.
- It had been twenty years, and he was still in the same job.
The last time I saw him was at the school office where I picked up my diploma — I wasn’t allowed to walk for graduation due to fighting at school. So the fact that he called me and asked to come speak to some of the at-risk students was a big shock. He told me that I could show the kids that even if they didn’t like school, they could make themselves into something, like I did with my HVAC company. I knew that I could never make it through college, but my uncle had persuaded me to try out the HVAC training courses they offered at the city college. He also hooked me up with a full time job at his small HVAC company, so I could get hands-on experience while I went to school. I always hated school, but the HVAC classes were a lot better than high school, because I understood the point of it. Memorizing historical dates and the names of state capitals was hard for me because it was pointless, but HVAC repair has an end goal… one with dollar signs attached to it! That is what I can impart to these kids, if not HVAC training then learn some other kind of trade. If you can make it through high school, then it gets easier because with a trade like HVAc you are literally learning how to make money.
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