<human>: Back story and context:

Hello, how yall doing?  I don't post here, ever really, so a bit anxious, but here we go.

I'm a hard working kid (24) working in the city trying to get through the recession.  I work in commercial Fireproofing.  I apply spray-on coatings on architectural steel.

I used to work for y dad, who was one of the biggest companies in the industry in our province.  I was there for a few years until I got tired of being the 'bosses kid' (a label you can never change' so I left.
I went and worked on the oil rigs for a few years until the recession and I got laid off.
Came back to fire proofing for a different, smaller outlet in town.

Fast forward to now, I'm still here and my dad called me.  He was retired and the guys he sold the company to have run it into the ground. He need help bringing it back.

He wants to.pass the business off to me.  He has the best reputation around town, he built his business on honesty with contractors.  All the big guys know his name.  It would be easy to bring it back.

Here's the catch.
I'm going to school in september for Power Engineering, I wanted to put myself into a great career, I'm sick of bouncing around every year not knowing where my paycheque will be coming from, if even at all.  
So I'm stuck with a life choice here...

Cancel school and help my dad bring his company back (or he will be forced to sell his assets when he gets them back)
Or go to school and try to build my own boat.

My dad says they will be ok financially if he backs out and let's the company die.  He doesn't want to go back into for very long, he's getting long in the tooth haha.

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<bot>: School for an exciting career? Or getting behind the reins of a once very successful and respected business?  It would be a struggle for awhile but it's possible.