Yeah, and at least as an apprentice you get paid something - even if it is stuff all. Try going to Uni, working some POS part time job to earn $100 a week to live/run a POS car on, buying about $1,000 worth of text books each year, then coming out of Uni with a $30,000 debt like me! Sure I have caught up now, but I sacrificed for a very long time.