Is it weird, working on a college campus where many of my friends go to school? No, to be honest it may be weird for them, but I am fine with it. I am sure a few of my friends think that having a job and working for a living is worse than pursuing higher education. I come from working class people, and although I like to read I didn’t think college was for me. I wanted to stay close to home, start making some money, and figure out what I wanted from life. I got my HVAC certification because I saw it as a way to acquire a valuable skill set I could take with me no matter where I went. Sometimes I am on campus, going to or from an air conditioning or ventilation job, and I will run into someone I know. I never say anything, but I always chuckle to myself, because they are paying so much money to be here, and I get paid by the HVAC contractor to be here. In essence, my friends are sort of paying me, aren’t they? Their tuition money goes to school, who uses some of it to pay the HVAC contractor, who pays me to do the work. By the time they graduate they will be a hundred thousand dollars in debt, and my HVAC job will be putting me ever closer to buying my first house! The only thing that is weird about my college friends, is feeling sad that they weren’t smart enough to get into HVAC work.