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#326 18-Year-Old Wyatt Brown's Journey from High School to the trades

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🗓️ 26 August 2024

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Wyatt, an 18-year-old high school graduate, shares his journey of exploring different career paths in the trades, including welding and linework. He discusses the challenges of making career decisions at a young age, the influence of his family and guidance counselor, and his plans to pursue a debt-free lifestyle.

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0:00.0

Tyler, imagine being 18 again.

0:07.0

There's ways that I would enjoy being 18 again.

0:10.0

There's ways that I would enjoy being 18 again and there are most certainly ways that I would not enjoy being 18 again

0:16.8

I don't know what you mean by that, but I'm gonna just stick with what I'm thinking

0:25.0

Maybe I shouldn't elaborate. Yeah, maybe not.

0:27.0

You know, before we recorded this podcast,

0:30.0

I would have considered myself someone that was close to that generation.

0:38.1

No, not even hip.

0:39.2

I don't think I was ever hit.

0:40.9

But close and relatable to that generation, but you know the Map Quest comment I made?

0:49.0

Yeah.

0:50.0

Was definitely sent me over the edge.

0:54.0

What's a map?

0:55.0

And I didn't even get to the point that we used to drive around with a giant yellow map book.

1:01.0

Yeah, except my great-grandfather was a cartographer.

1:05.0

Nice play.

1:09.7

So, Wyatt, we, he reached out, well actually we reached out to him because we saw he was raising money to head to a an event and he needed some cash to get there and we told him we'd pay the rest,

1:27.4

whatever he needed to get to his event, we told him we'd pay it.

1:31.1

Yeah, I was unaware that that was Meg who introduced us to him.

1:37.0

That's so funny.

1:38.0

All I call is sitting there.

1:39.7

It was like a weekend.

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