When I graduated from high school 21 years ago, university was the undisputed path to higher earnings and professional success. Alternatives such as a gap year, college, trade school, or going straight into the workforce weren’t actively encouraged by my parents or pursued by my peers. for each of them, assuming they would get a university education like I did.
There will also be shifting needs in the labour market, thanks to demographic trends and changes in technology. Ontario is trying to address a projected gap in skilled trades professionals, with educators fighting to dispel old stigmas and offering incentives My husband and I scrambled to raise roughly $100,000 in funds from friends and family to launch our business. If our parents had given us a cheque for that amount, it would have kept us from relying on our personal credit cards to run our business, from diluting our ownership, and saved us time pitching investors.