The traveling German carpenters
This article talks only about journeymen and women who are truly exotic and rare but it doesn't really emphasize that vocational training — the alternative to college — still is alive and well in Germany. You usually don't got to college if you want to become a hairdresser or a mechatronic engineer.After they finish school, the apprentices work three or four days per week at some company and go to a vocational school the rest of the time.