Sense, Nonsense, and Not-Sense

Especially because a university education, or in rare cases, a community college education, has become the floor of sufficient class signifier to get work in many jobs, and especially in any jobs where a large paycheck and some nice bonuses is part of the expectation of what you get from doing that job.

I remember checking and for all the US states bar one (I think it was Michigan? In that area, anyway), a community college degree in funeral studies plus at least one year of an internship/apprenticeship gets you your license to embalm and direct funerals.

One year of community college and a technical certificate gets you the funeral directing licence.

It's one of those rare "whiter than blue but still blue collar jobs that doesn't require a four year.