Your options are so far fetched.. Who says the dad has those connections... and why quit school at 16? no one is gonna whether if even legal or illegally. going to give an apprenticeship to a 16 year old high school drop out.. your options are asinine.


I'd tell my son whatever it is you decide to do. put your all into it.. whether it be to continue to go to school or go to a trade school and pick up a trade...

Option 1 without a doubt.

More educated, more transferable skills, socialising with people who want to do better in life, would have seen where a lot of people go wrong in life before having access to money, women don't want men below them and education is a component in that, basically no women don't have a bachelors these days, longer life-expectancy, body not ruined, not a tradie.


You can do Option 1 and still do labouring to get through uni. Having worked on jobsites even the senior guys are usually retards srs. Walk with the lame, develop a limp as they say. Everyone on the jobsite was basically a scumbag with high amounts of credit card debt, ate fast food every meal, went home and drank 4-6 long necks every day, smoked, could barely read or write, $400-800/day was all wasted. It's good to see that lifestyle in small doses so you know what you don't want to be.

Also know a lot of parents who thought the same as you LMFAO. It never works out because the kids do what they want to do which is usually chasing tail, getting drunk and drugs, buying a 10yo V8 commodore and spend more money doing it up than if they bought new, getting covered in head to toe with tattoos because that's what the people they associate with do...etc

Most of where you end up in life is through your socialisation. If your peers work hard and are law abiding, chances are you will be too. If your peers are alcoholic, smoking, monster drinking and meat pie eating scumbags, chances are you will be too.

Depends on the kid.

- likes school work, not into much physical activity: option 1

- doesn't care for school work, prefers doing stuff to sitting: option 2

Waste of time to tell a kid that doesn't enjoy school to go spend a lot more time in school.

And, if it were the US/not Oz, then I would tend more towards option 2 anyway because of how crazy school debt would probably be and because I've heard too many times that law is no bueno as a career in the US now.

Plus with option 2 by starting early he has time to fail at something and still start over and maybe make it.

Your son comes to you for career advice. There are two options:

Option 1

-study hard in high school
-get good grades to get into top university
-do 5 year combined degree in law, econ or finance (or some combo)
-intern or get an entry level job in the field while studying
-graduate after 5 years and go into professional year/mandatory work experience
-use dad’s contacts to get into mid-tier law firm or top-tier management consulting firm
-enter workforce around 25 years old start paying pay student loans
-hopefully be on track for equity partner by around 40 years old

option 2

-quit school at 16 years old
-start apprenticeship in trade
-finish apprenticeship at 19 or so
-get building license
-do a few small projects
-get awarded fat construction contracts from dad’s property development company
-retire as a multi-millionaire by age 30

Please give reasons for which option you select

Option 1

Option 2 is contingent on a sh!t ton of capital necessary to float labor and material to make said millions to retire.

Option 1 gives many more pathways to other jobs, even though misc entrepreneurs will say it's 9-5 slavery. If you're smart you can go to JC for two years to avoid those loans too.

And LOL at both options thinking anyone on the misc has a father.

Would just text him "lol @ tradies, srs"

Even without going with yourextreme examples, ****ing lol @ going to school for a million years and graduating with so much debt you won't have it paid back until your 40s. Generic university degrees are pretty much useless nowadays.

Plus you can learn whatever you want online in a shorter time for much cheaper.

If they know their passion and can have a career in that, follow it.
If not, go to university to get a degree that gives you an 8-5 job so you have your evenings and weekends free as it's the more sustainable lifestyle for most people.

Get both

Major in construction engineering