Confession time. For more than 20 years, I taught at a community college. And for a good chunk of that, I didn’t have a college degree. I had most of the credits. I just never got around to wrapping it up.
I taught radio and podcasting part-time, while my full-time job was being a news guy on Seattle radio.
Over the years, I saw plenty of students who would’ve thrived in a trade. Sharp, hardworking people who got steered toward a bachelor’s because somebody told them it was the only path worth taking…