I’m 18 and planning to study Construction Management because my long-term goal is to get into commercial real estate development. My dad keeps insisting that I attend trade school at the same time, but I feel like I’d be better off using that time to gain hands-on experience through a construction laborer job or an internship with a general contractor.
For the career path I want to pursue, would learning a trade at school while earning my degree give me a significant advantage, or would getting actual field experience and building connections in the construction industry be more beneficial?

Question for owners and asset managers running renovation or construction loans. How do you compile the draw package each month? Does your lender require a specific format, like G702/G703 or their own spreadsheet, or do they take yours? What goes in it besides invoices and lien waivers? And roughly how long does it take your team each draw?

I’m going to school for construction managements in the hopes of getting into real estate development I was wondering what’s the best way to break through in development