This story from NPR features Garret Morgan who constantly had heard: Go to college. Get a bachelor’s degree. And he tried for a while. But then quit. Today Morgan, who is 20, is working on a job site when he isn’t at the Pacific Northwest Ironworkers shop. He gets benefits, including a pension, from employers at the job sites where he is training. And he is earning $28.36 an hour, or more than $50,000 a year, which is almost certain to steadily increase. Listen in.

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