Seems to me that college and many trade schools make the promise that you won't have to start at the bottom. Until you get a job in that field and find out you don't know what you think you know. Several years ago my company tried an apprentice program, the test subject was a 40 yr old guy who graduated Lincoln Tech. Apparently they taught him everything he needed to know and he should have been on par with everyone else who busted their *ss in the trade for 20+ years. We should have let him go when we sent him out for oxygen and acetelyene and he lost a cylinder on the highway because he didn't tie them down. Instead they let it continue on, I even got dragged into HR for yelling at him for standing under a suspended load. The man was not cut out to spin a wrench, yet the trade school gladly took his money and inflated his ego. So many people get a degree or schooling and find out that's not what they're good at, you almost need to have some real world experience before you lay down your cash.
