When you lose everything, you can find yourself.
I have to say the best reason to get an education of any kind is that it can never be taken away from you. Once you learn how to do something, you have that forever… even if your wife leaves you, takes the adolescents, gets you fired from your job, & basically wrecks your life. I could have sat & cried, or tried to file a lawsuit of some kind, but instead I moved on. I took my skills, & my Heating & A/C certification ,and I went to a current town to find a current job & beginning a current life. Although I owned nothing I still had my resume, & my Heating & A/C certification, & I landed a really nice job within several days. I think a lot of people worry about not being able to find work, but for an Heating & A/C worker you never have to worry for long. Heating & A/C is a set of skills really few people have, & so whenever you need to find work, you won’t have to look really far. Within a year I had a respectable life built up for myself, with a steady Heating & A/C job & my own current place to live. I hope it never happens again, of course, but it’s not something I have to worry about, because as long as my brain works I can do Heating & A/C repairs, which means I will never go without a job. Now that I have a little money saved up, it’s time to go to court & try to get my adolescents back!