My wife and I taught our daughter at a young age that she could pursue anything in life that set her mind to.
We told her that she shouldn’t feel held back just because she’s a girl and some people want to say what boys and girls are allowed to do in this world.
I pray we reach a point in the future where kids can be raised without any hangups about female careers and male careers and to expect both working in every station in life. There was a time when most doctors were men and it’s refreshing to see that change as time goes on. Nowadays there are increasingly more women going to medical school to get their physician’s degrees. Likewise, there are more male nurses these days than ever before. However, there are still some jobs that are stubborn about what sorts of people they’re willing to admit or hire. One of those industries in the heating and cooling business. More often than not the HVAC technicians you run into are men. I wonder if women are discouraged away from HVAC the moment they enter technical school, or if it happens at a later date. Perhaps the women who try to get hired as apprentices are turned down by the heating and cooling suppliers in their area and then they’re discouraged from trying to get their HVAC certification at technical school. That’s what makes me so proud of my daughter after she defied all odds and got her HVAC certification recently. She found a fantastic family-owned business that was happy to hire her as an apprentice while she completed her schooling and training in the heating and cooling business so she could be a licensed HVAC technician.