MinnesotaEric
Super Member
It's not just that, but certain degrees are required before you can even take the bar exam. Abraham Lincoln wouldn't be admitted to practice law today.
My grandfather graduated from the same trade school I did in 1920s as a mechanical engineer after a couple of years. I spat out with an Associates in Automotive Technology (mechanic) after two years. Now that same trade school is a college and engineering has long been a four-year degree and you've better go off and get your PE once you have experience, Meanwhile that same trade school was considered so lowly, that I had to fight and write a letter campaign to Congressmen so it could take my GI Bill back in the day.
If I had kids, I'd send them off to sparky and HVAC school, then get them to get a two-year business associates degree so they know how to run a business, then I'd urge them to replicate their skillsets by hiring kids out of school and buying more trucks for them to run around in.