Looking for help... Skilled trades...

I took the whole HVAC program at our community college. One of the teachers was a gear head with a Hemi in his younger days, I enjoyed the sheetmetal bending to make ductwork. When it came time for the lab and wiring...not so much. I remember we went thru a bunch of start capacitors. However I wired them, they never dropped out after starting. Then came the field trip and the comment: you'll be working on a rooftop in the winter when the wind chill is 20 below and in an attic when it's 110 outside. That did it. I went in hardware/auto parts store/dealer sales and retired from a 22 year run of warehousing. Still putter with our furnace and A/C to keep it running. Good luck with your search!
A friend of mine took the HVAC school here at our VoTech college.
After crawling under houses, mobile home , in attics, on top of large commercial buildings etc in the middle of the summer in Fl, he gave it up. Mechanical aptitude is helpful, but I would say a person's who has a good work ethic and is not afraid of hard work, is equally important.