That sounds like a familiar story. Sad part is it keeps repeating itself across many vocations, for various reasons. Talking with a chap today who took part in a careers day in a specialist vocation recently. Yes there's good money at the elite end in this vocation, problem is the cost of training is crippling and the percentage of students who make it to the elite end is small, thus a good number end up with a student debt with no short term possibility of paying it back. This then leads to them either changing vocation or disappearing overseas.
The apprenticeship approach definitely paid dividends, but hey that's hindsight...
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