"The Trades" is a meme that just gets repeated by terminally online people who know they would have failed out of college if they tried going. Trade work is hard, dirty, backbreaking labor and it fucking sucks. You're out in the elements, getting rained or snowed on, in 20 degree weather, and you're miserable. There's a reason tradesmen drink and do drugs so much, and it's because they have to numb themselves because of how miserable their lives are.
Take the collegepill. If you don't want to go to a traditional university for 4 years, find a good 2 year program at a community college that will guarantee you a job. Something like Occupational Therapist Assistant or Respiratory Tech. Work inside where it's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. Don't destroy your body working with a bunch of methheads. Don't ever listen to opera singers for career advice.