Best trades

i have a degree in CIS but hate sitting behind a desk for 8 hours salving away counting the minute id rather be working with my hands doing something productive till i can save money for a business idea

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yeah I get you. Actually doing the work only dealing with clients once your done going to school for it, should be nice

"Prolonged exposure to welding fumes can lead to cancer of the lung, larynx and urinary tract, as well as nervous system and kidney damage."

safetyandhealthmagazine.com/articles/14291-welding-fume-hazards

Also, I've been in HVAC for 17 years now. I've worked commercial construction, and commercial service technician (no residential), and now project manager. All the money is in commercial work, avoid residential.

Same, and I like creating stuff that will outlive me or I can show with pride to my people. Pushing numbers on a spreadsheet is crap

some of the most based people ive ever met are tradesmen. own their business. work hours they choose. tell stupid people to fuck off.

so you have your own heating and cooling business?

Trade unions are literally the worst. A bunch of bottom of the barrel people making more money than they’re worth.

I fell for the "stationary engineer" meme. Everyone made it sound like I'd walk into a $100,000K per year job, and says shit like "Husky oil in XYZ is doing fly in fly out shifts" just apply there.

Fuck me, those jobs that pay over 100K need 10 years of oldschool oil experience, or if you enroll in a 2 year "power engineer/ stationary engineer" course, you have a 1/10 chance to get a summer student position for 4 months with a 1/5 chance of being ever called back.

Good fucking way to get stuck as a maintenance operator. I have good knowledge, but the pay is just not there. It's pretty painful. I'm about to branch into a complimentary trade.

How do I get a job driving the huge earth mover tractors? Like the ones they use when they're building a new road or something.

The guy you responded to is right. I work as an electrician and make bank. My brother is an A ticket welder and hates his work. It's dirty, dark, and you're breathing in all sorts of shit even with a ventilated helmet on just being in the shop. He primarily does pipe welding, and they have required number of feet of pipe you need to get through in a day. He makes a little more than I do (not much), but he seems miserable.

you a residential electrician?

I did temp work years ago as a wielders helper. Pass the guy rods, help with set up, and literally stand there watching him weld for the other 10 hours of the day in a single area. The guy was nice enough, but all I could feel was anger at how slow the process was lol. I blew my nose at the end of the shift, and it was always black. For the money, it might be worth it, but I found it to be way too boring.

No, I'm a project manager at an HVAC company

>thinking you'll get an apprenticeship

Hope you have an uncle in the Union.

This.

t. Water/Wastewater Project Manager

Metal Fever and Hexavalent Chrome come to mind...

kike killer will be the highest paying job in the next decade

This.

Fire protection system installer here .
46 an hour commercial rate
(23 for first year)
40 an hour residential rate
(20 for first year)

Really good benefits and pension, but it can be pretty difficult work.

It takes 3 years of school(8 weeks a year)and is a 4 year apprenticeship(to get your total hours.

Union is the best way to go in this industry and you'll find it is the same with elevator technicians as well(interesting that union dominated trades are better paid and more respected than non union dominated trades).

Go to your local union and talk to their sprinkler rep. Unless you're a candyass who can't hang.

Also, electricians are fucking nerds.

I'm a landscape horticulturist apprentice, kek.

Any /cnc/ here? What about EDM? Got hired even though I have zero experience lel. probably going to be an operator, any tips?

just smoke a pack a day. The tar in your lungs block any harmfull particles in the air. They also block the shit they've been spraying in the air for decades now. Thats why governments want you to quit smoking.

Cnc isn't a real trade

No arguments here.

Cnc make peanuts. like $12 in my area which you can make at McDonald's

four dollars up from minimum wage here in canada

GTFO, slack and jira faggot.

Instrumentation

>Just smoke a pack a day bro
I knew a welder who smoked a pack a day, and he died of throat cancer at age 40. But do what you want, it's your life.

unions are dead men walking. so old school they cant read the writing on the wall

Trades are a meme, get into engineering.

But that said, being a linesman would be cool as fuck.

No you are a gardener.

Based interrogation.

Unions have unironically been killed by equal pay for equal work kaws

i live in detroit anyone have a hookup?

I was thinking of getting into hvac and getting my g2/g1 licensing. How long do i need to learn the trade?