An 18 year old who listens and follows directions could do the 4 year apprenticeship (8k work hours and 576 school hours in some places) and be making $120k/year by the time they're 22/23.

General Contractors
Air conditioning business owners
All the subcontractors
Plumbers
Electricians
Handymen
Framers
Roofers
Concrete
Grading and drainage
Engineers etc make a lot of money, but the current young generation don’t want to get into them because it’s dirty work, they rather be content creators 🤣 or study a for 4 year college degree, to pay someone a with a trade a lot of of money to do what they could've done themselves, like simply change the oil in their own vehicle...

Whoever wants to put in the work, as minimum is required, you would make it out there. The bar is low…