No, my position most peoples view of themselves and their demands are not accurate. The statistical falure rate of new generations of cheap tools is exagerated, as one guy said,,, he bought a SO breaker bar and it has lasted 40 yrs,,, probably 75 then, well I have HF breaker bar in service 20, half way there for investment of 12$ and it still works.
As for education you read that wrong, I am a proponant, I think many engineering types would be well served by a year of auto repair. As I said,, easy to tell the hand to mouth types that learned a little in the backyard helping dad, they often learn slow, guys with training catch on lot faster.
Every once in a while we run across a self learned welder but generally would like to get someone that has had some training. If I got a kid who thought some shiny tools was some substitute for some trouble shooting logic he would be mistaken. Be even worse in a journeyman.
). At this point you have a really nice tool kit to keep for your own enjoyment and fixing up your own cars or you can sell it to the vultures on GJ for 50% which is about what you paid for it)