Electricians and plumbers make lots of money. Auto mechanics are also never too far between jobs.
Any skill where you can market to people who own things they either don't know how to fix, or don't have the time to do so will always make you money.
Auto mechanics don't pay all that much, unless specialized. Heavy machinery mechanic pays well. But that is a 2-year program. But our rental division pays less and hires auto mechanics. They do well...
Auto mechanics don't pay all that much, unless specialized. Heavy machinery mechanic pays well. But that is a 2-year program. But our rental division pays less and hires auto mechanics. They do well...
Absolutely right.
and, totally true of almost any trade. People pay more for specialists. Just about everybody in my family (except me) is or was in a trade. The more specializations you have, the higher you can set your price tag. My dad worked 36 years in a nickel mine as an electrician, and the few times he was laid off or on strike, he picked up work in his trade with almost no hassle. Everybody wants electricity, clean water, and the mess to go away when they flush.
As a plumber, I'll chime in with my opinion. BE AN ELECTRICIAN !
Lighter work. No emergency calls. You can lick your fingers when you're done eating your chicken. You're afforded a little more leeway with mistakes. Everyone calls you Sparky.
Actually, a millwright is also a great trade as you get to mess with a little of everything.
Not knocking plumbing, but it's not a cakewalk, and some jobs can get real tough on the body as it ages.......
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As a plumber, I'll chime in with my opinion. BE AN ELECTRICIAN !
Lighter work. No emergency calls. You can lick your fingers when you're done eating your chicken. You're afforded a little more leeway with mistakes. Everyone calls you Sparky.
Actually, a millwright is also a great trade as you get to mess with a little of everything.
Not knocking plumbing, but it's not a cakewalk, and some jobs can get real tough on the body as it ages.......
I worked alongside a plumber when I was 16, during the summer. I was doing demolition and putting in new storefronts in commercial buildings. This was an old Italian guy, and the only thing I remember him saying to me was "Don't you ever become a plumber! Stupid choice I made!"
don't appreciate your inference that I am somehow unqualified to comment.
WOW, slow down. I NEVER said that nor did I mean to imply it. Of course you are entitled to your opinion and comments.
How did you come to that conclusion? Trust me, I do not mean that in the LEAST.
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These guys have all the tools in the world and are building all sorts of things out of every conceivable material all day long. If you like to build and refinish things, from what I have seen it seems like the ideal job.
If you like working with electronics AVS. Aircraft mechanics then AVN.
Might go over better with Mom.
Good call. I myself have said to myself MANY MANY times "why did you not be a Mat Tech?"
Mat Tech's do cool stuff, lots of real world skills there. Kinda like Orange county choppers, lol
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Have you always been a reservist or have you ever been in the Reg Force?
That is where I got the inference. In any case, just trying to help a guy out, sorry it made you so mad, bottom line is though, that engineer is still the best Army trade, hands down. You should try a remuster, ha ha
Have you always been a reservist or have you ever been in the Reg Force?
It was just a honest question. You read into it WAYYYY too much.
Did not make me mad in the least.
Its only right you love your trade. That or you would remuster.
I HATE my trade, it is finally not "red flagged" any more. The wife is not to hot on me going away for another 3's as we JUST started living together again due to the army having us apart for the last 2 years. That and a new trade means a new posting and we are both in Ottawa and she needs to finish university here. Maybe when she is done school.
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