What does Jow Forums recommend for a skilled trade to learn. Earning potential is a huge factor, but so is not dying painfully or wanting to kill myself after 6 months of doing it. I don't really care how disgusting/demeaning it is.
Skilled Trade
Austin Reyes
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Jaxon Baker
Do tugboat or something that pays you good amounts of money for straight labor.
Work that for 1 year and put a down payment on a well established, well managed, and profitable small business. Nothing CRAZY, just enough to put an extra 3-4k in your pocket a month. Then keep working and get a second small business and quit your job. Focus on building up an empire of businesses like gas stations, nail salons, paintball courses, camping stores- anything and everything you want to utilize in your life, buy a business that specializes in it and appoint solid managers and employees while sticking excess cash into more businesses and other avenues of money storage like metals, property, bonds, etc etc..
Relatively 'simple', actually.
Justin Collins
Plumbing
Caleb Hall
Christopher Cooper
>hes never ran a small business before
Nicholas Cruz
welding
$500k in a low cost of living area
Aaron Jenkins
Kneepads.
Isaiah Moore
Keep wagecucking, pal :)
Dominic Taylor
Go apply at the railroads. They're all hiring, it's good money, you can live in a small town near the hub where the trains you work run out of, and they have great benefits. Just don't go near the high speed boondoggle, I'm betting that gets shut down by trump.
Merchant marine is good, too, but it's boring, but if you want to drill down in learning something, perfect job, and you get to explore foreign ports of call.
Go work the fishing boats in Alaska, or the oil rigs. It's seasonal work, and pays enough that you can work a couple months, play the rest of the year.
For something small you can do yourself, get a powerwasher, and do powerwashing in the spring/summer. Laser cleaning is a good business, too, and you can get all kinds of contracts from local government to clean buildings and such. Carpet cleaning is always profitable, but the start up cost is higher, but I think you can get a franchise where paying off the van/gear is part of the franchise fee.
Go apply at your state's dept of motor vehicles or whoever fixes the streets. Union work, brah. Those guys who wave flags at construction sites make good money.
But above all else, just learn to hustle, and learn to love it. You'll make it.
Leo Kelly
My buddy does HVAC and does alright.
Jordan Taylor
welding meme is the chainlink or blue collar.
Plumber sux, it looks good wages but materials alone kill you.
....pajeet unlicensed labour will always undercut you in winning jobs.
also terrible advice buying discretionary spending business eg nail salon, paintball
Easton King
The average welder where I'm at makes like 19/hour. Where the fuck do you live, and how can I get started there?
Dylan Carter
interesting. powerwashing sounds like a grind but low barrier to entry.
Juan Rivera
I know someone in my family who does it. He just puts on his headphones and sprays mold and dirt off houses on the east coast. Pools, too, in the spring. Easy work, and he's outside all day. He does a bunch of stuff - he plows snow in the winter, works part time with a guy who cuts trees down, powerwashes, and couple other things. He's always working - when one slows down, the other ones pick up. He does pretty well, he's raising a couple kids with it - but he lives in a small town, and his costs are low, and his wife works. There are lots of guys who work like that, all over the country.
I rent a small storage locker near me, and I swear, 90% of the units are small business guys, who store their equipment there. I talk to them all the time, when I go there, there are guys who seal driveways, pool cleaners - I know about the laser thing because one of them has one, and I stopped to watch him fiddle with it.
Aaron Reed
Plumbers don't pay for materials, the customer does. Plumbing is actually great money, but most states require licenses, and most people won't use unlicensed guys, because if there's a problem, their insurance won't cover it. Same with electricians, and HVAC.
Jack Bell
electrician
Nathan Davis
Hm. If I didn't invest the last 4 years in a degree I would consider that. At this point I am looking at products and real estate as my future side hustles, potentially consulting (i am a cloud migrator for work)
How about the laser cleaning? I can't find any stats to support ROI on the high cost machinery, as far as potential revenue per job, etc.
Sebastian Diaz
Please unclog.
John Lewis
Second this
Brayden Adams
Good money, especially if you get into the union - the hard part is getting trained and licensed. Community colleges offer 2 year degrees in it, or you can luck out and find a gig where they train you but they're getting harder to find. It's one of the last remaining fields where you have to work as an apprentice, first. If you can hack it, it's a good job. But it's not something you can just walk out tomorrow and do, it's an end-goal.
Easton Cox
Electrician is neat but keep in mind that employers don't tolerate a single mistake.
Camden Miller
Electrician, is an exceptional trade. We'll never NOT need electrical work. It's the least dirty of the trades, and has little competition.
If you are willing to put in a few years, work a boat (ship), get your captains license. You can make good money ferrying boats, and running cruises (whale cruises in cali, Mexico) or fishing charter. Must love the ocean.
Carson Sullivan
Kek
Christopher Jones
Electrician
5 years get Journeyman
100k+ making more than some college degree day with student debt
Liam Ramirez
College degree fag*
Just go to your local community college
Jace Lopez
Commercial HVAC. Fuck crawl spaces.