Oct 27, 2026 · 40 min · 15 segments
What comes after high school? For many families, college seems like the natural next step. But what if a young adult isn't quite sure where God is calling them? Sarah Northup, co-founder and…
Davies OwensHostSarah NorthupGuestI know that when I graduated from high school, it was you're going to college, kind of no questions asked.
And then I think college has kind of gone through this shift of it's a time, it's used as like a self-discovery mechanism.
Who are you? You can go to college and figure that out, which is really a big problem because it's not the place where you want to be figuring out who you But I think the pendulum's swinging, right? So from a broader perspective, as a society, we're starting to realize that when you send everybody to college, you end up with holes in these huge, important industries where people need to be filling in the gaps.
If we think about some of the gaps that that's created, some statistics are...
There's over 349,000 construction jobs openings in the United States currently, over 70,000 electrician jobs, 40,000 HVAC jobs.
If I'm going to hire somebody to do construction on my house, I'd love for them to be working unto the Lord as well.
And if there aren't any Christian carpenters, that's going to be a hard thing, right? Yeah.
And one thing that's really interesting is, you know, I'm part of like Gen X or whatever, quote unquote.
So my generation, you know, they're called the sandwich generation for a number of reasons.
is because, believe it or not, there are actually 6.4 million Gen Xers who are still carrying between $38,000 and $48,000 worth of debt while they're trying to enroll their children in college.
And when when your kids are going to go to college, you're going to still be paying for it.
I know that when I graduated from high school, it was you're going to college, kind of no questions asked.
And then I think college has kind of gone through this shift of it's a time, it's used as like a self-discovery mechanism.
Who are you? You can go to college and figure that out, which is really a big problem because it's not the place where you want to be figuring out who you But I think the pendulum's swinging, right? So from a broader perspective, as a society, we're starting to realize that when you send everybody to college, you end up with holes in these huge, important industries where people need to be filling in the gaps.
If we think about some of the gaps that that's created, some statistics are...
There's over 349,000 construction jobs openings in the United States currently, over 70,000 electrician jobs, 40,000 HVAC jobs.
If I'm going to hire somebody to do construction on my house, I'd love for them to be working unto the Lord as well.
And if there aren't any Christian carpenters, that's going to be a hard thing, right? Yeah.
And one thing that's really interesting is, you know, I'm part of like Gen X or whatever, quote unquote.
So my generation, you know, they're called the sandwich generation for a number of reasons.
is because, believe it or not, there are actually 6.4 million Gen Xers who are still carrying between $38,000 and $48,000 worth of debt while they're trying to enroll their children in college.
And when when your kids are going to go to college, you're going to still be paying for it.
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