profession - electrician.

[Sergei Slovenija]

There is always work around here for good electricians in both industrial and domestic fields.
Best career path IMO for a young lad is to get into industrial side, ie an apprenticeship in a factory, and get into the control/instrumentation side.
You can make a good living if you know how EC&I and how to write PLC software like modern siemens, AB etc. It pays as much as a good mechanical design engineer.

My message to my son was this - having a profession in demand behind him, he can live and work wherever he wants. In the meantime, he still has a couple of years to study (two years of study have already passed). Then it is up to him to decide whether to work or get a higher education and in what field of knowledge. Or press pause, maturing in the decision.

 

[Erie Fred]

Here in the USofA, electricians don't go to college.
Trade schools, and apprenticeships are the way.

Electrician Training Program - Erie Institute of Technology

Learn electrical systems, code requirements, and tools with EIT's hands-on electrician program. Prepare for entry-level jobs in the field.

erieit.edu

https://www.rctcerie.org/programs/industry/

 

[northwest]

Here in the USofA, electricians don't go to college.
Trade schools, and apprenticeships are the way.

I was once invited to go to a Carpenters union Trade School I could not believe my ears, "Tommy the Tape and Harry the Hammer" sorry but it was all a bit of a shock to me.

 

[Erie Fred]

I was once invited to go to a Carpenters union Trade School I could not believe my ears, "Tommy the Tape and Harry the Hammer" sorry but it was all a bit of a shock to me.

True, they do need to dumb it down for the new hires.
Just pointing out to the OP, that there is no "university" for sparkies over here.

 

[Robotstar5]

Here in the USofA, electricians don't go to college.
Trade schools, and apprenticeships are the way.

Electrician Training Program - Erie Institute of Technology

Learn electrical systems, code requirements, and tools with EIT's hands-on electrician program. Prepare for entry-level jobs in the field.

erieit.edu

https://www.rctcerie.org/programs/industry/

We used to have technical colleges here, I went to one for my apprenticeship in the 70's.

 

[Sergei Slovenija]

We used to have technical colleges here, I went to one for my apprenticeship in the 70's.

It's called like:

The Upper Secondary School of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technical Gymnasium Ljubljana.

Electrical systems technician

designs and performs measurements,
builds, installs, repairs, and maintains circuit board, electrical devices, portable media and signal transfer systems, computers, and networks,
designs and constructs computer networks, and audio systems, assembles, installs, and uses controllers, and performs maintenance on mechanical equipment.


Electrical power technician

designs simple electrical installation networks, control desks, switchgears, and switchboards,
monitors and controls electricity installations,
monitors and performs measurements in electrical power networks,
installs and performs maintenance on electrical power devices.