Construction management?

[JohnnyHeck]

The construction industry varies greatly throughout the country. Here in the South, many people without even a HS degree have worked their way up from the trades into project management. That being said, the larger commercial construction companies are starved for educated trade knowledgeable personnel. Your CAD training and construction management certificate could be enough to get you an entry level spot in these larger commercial firms especially if you have added some actual field practice which it sounds like it might be available through your family. If your local CC has AAS (Applied Associate Science), this would be the best way to go if you could work at the same time in the field. However, you will have to get some Gen-Ed and you really do need to write decently for creating proposals and specifications. Whatever area of construction you target to work in, find the trade associations related to them. All of these have courses and certificate programs that will help you both finding a job and being successful in it. If you are not a bonafide tradesman and are coming into construction as just a young "whippersnapper" wannabe manager you must learn the trades related to your area of construction or you will never have the respect that you will need to be successful. You don't have to actually work as a tradesman to gain the skill level of speed all that much, but you better know as much or more technical knowledge than they do. Good luck.