Trade job meme >literally getting on your knees

>No student debt.
>Decent income out of HS.
>Lots of job opportunities.
>Low pay ceiling, but skills are easier to transition to self-employment or starting your own business.

Pick up a trade at 18, work your ass off with a decent income until you're 25, start a business. The smart people in trades do it and they end up making a lot more than degree holders. This is coming from a 9-5 officefag with a degree and no student debt. The trade meme is real.

>>1327199
trade is filled with trailer trash whites and mexicans

>>1327199

I am 21 and make 93k a year and have better benefits then most employees at large corporations, no student debt, will be able to retire in 20 years. If I go to 25 then I also get medical for life covered by the union. I live a better life at 21 then most graduates with a bachelor's degree. I also made another 30K doing side jobs off the books and paid no taxes on it. All cash! Sure I can't do that until I retire but in another year I can buy a duplex with no mortgage.

>>1327215
ok buddy

>>1327206
How do you interrupt a Portugese wedding?
>Run in and yell "CONCRETES HERE BOYS!"

is electrician work seasonal?

>>1327215
I'm 21 and make 160k a year after stocks and bonuses with a college degree. I also got a full ride and didn't pay a single cent for it.

Slave for 5 years, invest in real estate.

Get FHA loan, buy duplex, live for free until you save up for a other down payment. Refinance, buy another duplex, receive rental income, quit job and trade stocks.

>>1327218
kek
they sure do love their masonry

>>1327174

Somebody thinks office jobs are glamorous.

Let me know how that works out for you.

>>1327215
>then

>be 24
>went to trucking school at 21
>only cost $5K + hotel/food during 2 week school
>got job immediately
>made $41K first year
>moved to dedicated Target account making $55K last year
>have saved close to $30K already
>job requires literally hardly any physical or mental work
>just have to enjoy driving 6-11 hours a day and don't mind being away from home
Meanwhile my college friends are graduating with ~$80K student loan debt making just as much as me, with no savings. Their income ceiling my be higher but they will never catch up to me. I can become owner op making six figures in ~5 years or so. They will still be paying off student loans living with their parents.

>>1327242
My boss thinks he is going to do this. He isn't.

Fyi, I'm 20 and he is 25

>>1327467
>muh anecdotal evidence

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I'm 27, $21k in student debt, 100% useless degree.

Are there any trades that require ~2 years of studies/training? I want to reboot my life by 30, so I'm looking for options.

>>1327174
wow. /biz/ has reached a new level of shitposting

>>1327219
There's a decline in work, especially for residential wiring shit, but there's still work to be done, there's just too many electricians to do it.

>>1327541
i heard in canada there a lot of jobs in the trades :(

>>1327467
hope you enjoy getting your job taken by robots in 5 years

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pic: me falling for the electrician meme

protip: dont do it

question: why do trade meme posts get posted everyday fucking day in /biz/ of all places

>>1327552
keep dreaming kiddo. feds wont let it happen that fast

>>1327489
41k isnt that much. im a dental hygenist and make 65k after 18 months of school. loling at the doctors making 100k after 8+ years

>>1327560
Doctors make 200k starting.

>>1327593
not all doctors. and by the time they have their loans paid off ill have half a million saved up and open my own business

>>1327557
Is that Edmonton? Are you hiring?

>>1327206
>lots of money to be made
>plentiful work
>your competition is literally trash.
Are you arguing for or against here?

>>1327522
what did you study?
International relations?
most people who go to uni after the age of 25 usually pick useful areas

>>1327609
Yeah except those doctors will open up their own practise in teh same time and it'll be way better than your shitty business.

I have a good friend who became an electrician's assistant after HS and was making over $20 an hour while I was in college. At that age I could never dream of making that much an hour full time. I really respected the guy because he woke up at 6 am every weekday and saved up a lot of money. Then when we turned 21, just like a lot of people he starts getting drunk and partying it up on his free time. Fast forward a year later he gets really drunk at a party and decides to take our friend's bike out for a meaningless ride up and down the street. Our other friend found him two hours later because he fell over and broke his shoulder on the side of the road. After 6 months of physical therapy he got better but blew most of his savings going to bars, and the electrician hired someone to replace him. Now he works at a pizza shop and is still a functional alcoholic.

>>1327633
I will retire earlier than any doctor. thats a gaurantee

>>1327557
Why do you regret being an electrician? Looks like you are doing industrial which pays well right?

>>1327644
And I will retire earlier than you. That's a guarantee.

>>1327671
how do you retire from being a neet

>>1327680
When did I say that I was a NEET?

>>1327548
not really currently, especially in ontario. Im a 3rd year apprentice(laid off) and I can't find a new placement

>>1327710
what would you say is a better trade?

>>1327714
Can't really say man, A lot of trade work is in new construction which is coming to a halt because all the government funded projects have run out.

>>1327557
Are you guys hiring? Im an apprentice electrician

>>1327718
sucks i was either looking to be a plumber, welder or electrician

>>1327725
Well I'd stay away from electrician as it seems to be over saturated.

>>1327206
What's your point?

Doesn't make you white trash for going into it. I'm a mechanic but with inheritance I probably have more money than most on here. I could offer you money and you'd agree to blow me for it bro.

>>1327223
Cool story bro.

>>1327623
>>1327667
>>1327718

I worked as a commercial/industrial electrician in alberta. you can google the company name on my hardhat if you want a job. no i wont be your reference

pay is mediocre, you work with alcoholics, and you destroy your body faster than you think, no real job progression besides ending up at a desk pushing papers when youre 30. not worth.

>>1327955
what was pay?

>>1327522
join the military
become career military
your trade is death and destruction

I have a family connection that's offering to take me on as an apprentice in plumbing but I have no idea what the work is like. Can someone give me a quick rundown of what being a plumber is like and should I do it?

>>1327548
There was when oil was $90 a barrel and Alberta created a trades vacuum in the other provinces by offering 200k a year. Now all of those people have gone home and are fighting for scraps.

>>1328100
What area do you live in, and does your connection work primarily new construction or do they focus on repairing/servicing existing fixtures?

>>1327552

Nothing is even being developed right now that will replace commercial drivers. Stop reading clickbait articles. The only technology even remotely close to "self-driving" trucks are the radars that keep the truck in the same lane, breaks when getting to close to car ahead, etc. Yet those still legally require a driver behind the year and it's technology is decades away from being remotely close to self-driving. Also, is the self-driving truck going to clean it's own trailer, do pre trip inspections, pump fuel, do paperwork/eLogbooks, maintenance, etc.? I bet you think auto-pilot woulda replaced pilots too. Because that sort of technology will be the peak of what we get within the next 100 years.

>>1328100

Once you start your own business, plumbing can be easy. My Uncle is a plumber and really all he does is installations and renovations. He doesn't even touch broken pipes, shit backed up everywhere type messes, etc..

>>1327955
Just wondering what the pay is.

I had a friend in ontario who was IBEW and he was pulling in 3 grand a week after tax when he was flying out to alberta and back ever 2 weeks. But I'm assuming that kind of work has dried up recently.

anyone know anything about welding? will FASFA pay all that for me?

>38 years old
>Didn't fall for the trade job meme
>Can still move without being in constant agony

>>1328727
also interested in this

>>1328100
Imagine being knee deep in shit... Literally