what's a trade/profession that doesn't require thousands

You can Start almost anything with somewhere between $0 and $50 in hand tools but you need to increase that investment over time. Electricians, Mechanics, Carpenters and the like build up their collections as needed.

Maybe getting a job on an assembly line, if you can still find one, taking two screws from a bin and screwing them down in two places with a drill hanging on a cable, for eight to ten hours a day but human-as-a-robot is not really a trade.

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None that are worth getting, also if you aren't already you should become a fencer. I did and my life is lower middle class.

>>1193853
Male prostitute.

>>1193879
It's not difficult to become a house husband if you take care of yourself.

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>>1193857

>>1193853
PC repair.

I ran around with a screwdriver and credit card fixing people's PCs in their homes for a decade. I made like $1,800 a week on average. 99% of is was ordering new parts and reinstalling the OS + programs.

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>>1193928
sounds like a nice racket

>>1193948
Yeah, I used to do a lot of phone repair with very little tools. But newer phones are getting more dificult to fix. They are either disposable or a big pain in the ass

>>1193853
Its not about the trade, its about the company you work for. I work in HVAC and iv worked for myself where iv had to provide all the tools, iv worked for companies that make you bring your own hand tools and supply all the expensive stuff and iv worked for a big company that provided EVERYTHING and didnt want us using our own tools.

That being said, if you are choosing your profession based on how much tools cost, you should probably go be a ditch digger. That seems about your speed.

>>1193853
plumber, electrician, welder

Residential plumber.

Butcher. 300 on a few knives, a steel, steel mesh glove, and scabbard.

>>1193853
Barely any trade needs thousands of dollars worth of tools. It's just the assistance of those tools which enable you to do jobs faster to a better standard and in return more money.

>>1194183
>better standard
I kind of regret saying this because anyone with years of skill and experience can do a perfectly fine job anyway but seeing as how you're asking, I'm going to presume you don't have aformentioned skill or experience.

>>1193853
festool dominio

Be that guy that picks locks and pops doors open when cars are locked out. Need like $100 for tools and you can practice on your car/house.

>>1193928
>>1193948
>>1193950
I've done a bit of PC/phone repair and in my experience no one cares about getting their shit fixed, they'd rather just buy a new one since things go out of fashion every year or so anyway.

>>1193853
>build up their collections as needed.

This. even as a guy who just does it as a hobby, i find myself bying thing as needed, and then just storing until the next project. it wasnt like I had a list of things i bought on day 1

>>1194117
>welder

Retard

>>1193959
like minecraft

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>>1194180
sounds doable

>>1193853
Drywall repair.
Maybe $300 in hand tools, a couple quality step ladders, and a few drop cloths. Maybe $500-$600 total.
Now the skill involved... That's a different story.
Hanging drywall on the other hand requires inly a modicum of skill and a few hundred dollars in tools. It is absolutely backbreaking, fast paced work. Not for everybody.

>>1193881
Came to post this
>implying OP could get a spouse

>>1194301
>implying welders need most of their own shit
It's not like you need to buy the bottles of gasses and shit unless you're a one man operation.

>>1194866
>Implying you can weld without a welding rig

It costs someone a lot of money to put the equipment in place. Be it yourself (who would bare the cost) or a company (you wouldnt even ask the question).

>>1193853
man-ho

>>1194117
>electrician
top kek

>be electrician
>some meters cost four digits alone

>>1194180
Bone saw, sausage press, smoker, meat cooler. To operate on your own is 10's of thousands.

>>1193853
Barber

Residential garage door repair
-impact driver
-rotary hammer
-winding bars
-vise grips
-ladder
-come-along
-cable swager
-truck with ladder rack or car with roof rack

>>1194301
Not really. A typical career track is training or getting a job as a helper, then as you NEED tools adding them.

No "green" welder has any business dumping money into a rig truck. Get a few years in structural and pipe then make the jump using cash so you aren't in debt.

OP could do what countless thousands before him have done and hunt a job as helper if he has no way to get trained otherwise, but I strongly recommend the combo of a community college welding course AND studying your arse off at home because relying only on what you learn in school is weak.

Pell Grants and lottery money exist. Our students usually turned a modest profit or broke even.

OP can fit the basics he'd need in a couple of 5 to 7 gallon pails as is customary on many jobsites in the US. (7 gallon floor wax etc pails are excellent. I leave the lids on then cut out the centers.)

The basic kit our students received (it's cheaper to buy on your own) is a fixed shade helmet, large mill bastard file and handle, chipping hammer, Channelock pliers for carrying hot practice coupons (I prefer visegrips with a rod welded to make a T-handle for the adjustment knob to use with gloves), some soapstone, pair TIG gloves (I like the white/tan Tillmans), pair heavy gloves for stick and MIG, torch tip cleaner, Welper-style MIG pliers, and a basic leather welding jacket. They added other items but the main thing to hiring on in the US is passing a 6G pipe test and if you show up with the basics that's all you have to have.

We trained them on fixed shade helmets so they'd have more helmet and tint options but autodarks are of course handier in shop.

Classic Fibre-Metal welding helmet which are light, comfy, common (easy to find parts on the road) and you can trim the neck area for best chin tuck when working in cramped spaces. Autodark inserts to fit are available.

https://www.amazon.com/Fibre-Metal-Honeywell-Piperliner-Welding-Helmet/dp/B004F7JFOG

Stock up on clear protective lenses.

>>1193853
Forester.

Prostitute.

>>1193879
>Tfw My wife makes so much less than me it would be stupid for me to leave my job and let her do it all

>>1193853
Scammer

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>>1193948

What the fucking fuck. Please tell me that is mocked up. What even is that?

>>1194212

If that's the only service he offers, sure. But he isn't goign to make a living off that, and it's hardly a trade. And you ain't getting into a modern car with just a set of lockpicks. You need at the least a plastic wedge and a coathanger, even for older ones.

Lockpicks will just help you open up simple house locks, and not always then.There is no catch-all pick; your standard pickpicks will do a pin-tumbler, but lever locks and other lock types need their own specialised pick, or to be drilled if the security makes picking them unrealistic. So, add a hundred for specialised picks, and then another few hundred for a decent drill and bits.

Then there is cutting keys, a standard and expected part of the job, and again, there are different machines to cut different sorts of keys. Each costs between four hundred to a thousand bucks. And then you have to buy at least a half dozen of every fucking blank key imaginable, so you actually can start cutting keys for people on site.

This is before the van you will need, the insurance, if youa re in the US, liscensing in some states. Before actually installing locks, and the general handyman skills to do so. Before UPVC knowledge. Long, long, before any form of electronic security knowledge, though that can be worked up to.

Locksmithing is lucrative, but unless you are a rogue trader, it's more than just turning up somewhere with picks and a drill.

>t. Apprentice locksmith.
>I am blessed to have a supportive family. One parent paid for my initial training, a week costing $1700 or therearound, and the other is buying my first set of tools and key cutting machine.

I'm not saying don't do it. I'm just saying don't listen to people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about.

>>1195568

It's a foil-pouch lithium battery.

While most batteries don't take well to being shorted internally via puncture, some lithium-based variants (and especially lithium cobalt) are particularly...violent, when provoked.

>>1195569

Also, it's not all fun and profit. Imagine getting called out at 2am to some punks car/place, and when you pull up, he isn't alone, and they want you to break into somewhere for them or be broken.

Imagine you are paid to rekey the locks to an empty apt, a quick hour or two job worth a couple of hundred, and you find the locks already open/broken, and all alone you have to look around the property (declaring your presence and right to be there, so you don't get stabbed/shot, or lock someone in who is hiding) with a torch (because it's unlikely to have power on), and then once you 'think' you are certain it's empty, put your attention onto loudly unscrewing/drilling locks around the property. It's fucking survival horror shit. You are at some point going to encounter a hobo, or worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMGjEpiXl-0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2YS9g8Hnkc (This is the daily work of a locksmith, typically.)

>>1195570

What you are saying is we have literally invented the exploding barrels from vidya, only in fucking pocket form, where any one of a thousand daily accidents could set them off in close contact with sensetive places like near our junk?

I could have lived without that knowledge. /diy/ is an amazing and terrifying place. A shame it's slow as fuck because it's userbase has better things to do than shitpost all day.

>>1195573
>where any one of a thousand daily accidents could set them off in close contact with sensetive places like near our junk?

Well, I mean, the damage has to actually short out the electrodes in the battery, which isn't all that easy to do on accident when it's in a hard-shelled case.

That being said, there was that whole "laptop battery fire" debacle some years ago. And the Hoverboard thing.

>>1195575
And the Galaxy Note failures.
>Posted from my Note 4 with the non-user killing battery

Window washer. Tools are cheap. You do need a vehicle and be willing to hear a lot.

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>>1195571

>>1193883
I don't get the meaning of this gif. Are you insulting my profession?!

>>1196282
no man. i'm envious of you. sounds comfy as.

Machining.

>>1196591
Wow, how shitty must your life be to be envious of a 27 year old whose only fucked twice.

>>1193853
Massage

>>1196760
28 year old here who's never fucked once. I'm jealous of that alone.

>>1195130
if you own your own business maybe but even then installing sectional doors you dont need thousands of dollars worth of equipment. a ladder rack is 400 bucks at most and an 8ft ladder for residential will run you 200 bucks
>tl;dr fuck being a commercial door guy i hate it

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>>1196591
envious of installing fencing in cold or hot weather
lugging around hundreds of pounds chain link fabric

>>1196778
Its worse, I'm a rural fencer. Pretty much constantly carrying 30kg of wire up hills that quad bike won't make it up. But hey I'm pretty much retired now so it's a living.

>>1196768
This is just making me depressed.

>>1193853
Faggot with a clipboard.

>>1196774
I mean if I were to leave my company tomorrow and start my own, all I would need is a truck, just empty all my shit out of the company truck and into mine.

>>1195113
What percentage of butchers have their own shops these days? They all work in supermarkets.

>>1196789
Hell, forget the clipboard.

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>>1194180
My dad loves to tell a story about my grandfather, his father in law, and him ma king sausage. My dad makes killer sausage in a 50 lb recipe and one day grandpa decides he wants to attempt the recipe. My parents owned a restaurant and had a 6 foot tall floor mixer my dad would use to grind meat. Grandpa figures ah fuck I own a hand crank grinder we can handle it here (their home in Florida). The way my dad tells it, grandpa was doing fine for about ten lbs when he hits a lump of gristle. while his expression didn't change, he turned bright red, beads of sweat started to cover his face and veins were popping all over. After about 45 seconds of not breathing he took a huge gulp of air and exclaimed "AH FUCK OFF," then immediately left for the nearest liquor store

>>1193853
I was in heavy construction (mostly equipment operating) and never bough a tool but learned a lot. Now I'm in steel manufacturing and make enough to buy any tool i need and am learning way more. I love learning about steel and how to build structure out of steel and concrete, really made fixing my foundation so obvious and simple. Ask me how I saved a grade beam broken in 5 pieces under a sinking house

>>1195101
You can be a singlehand welder and not need a rig. My welderbros do very nicely on the road and while they have the skill and own more than enough equipment to be rig welders they mostly prefer not to. Work the road a few years to get good then make your choice. If you are good it's not hard to start your own welding business. If you aren't good, find another trade or stay in your lane at a lower level. Welding goes well with wrenching, industrial maintenance etc so it's all win.

>>1195569
Hello apprentice!

Make sure all the local used car lots and towing services know who you are. Mechanics and salvage yards too because if you can cut keys for expensive car doors that make the door easier to use.

t. mechanic.

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>>1197495
How?
duct tape and a can-do attitude?!?!?

>>1196272

kek, I'm nervous about that part of the job, desu.

>>1197506

Fuck. Thanks, yeah, I'll keep that in mind. I'm going to be spending the first months just introducing myself to half the region, because people keep pointing out people I should shake hands with and hand my card.

>>1193853

A tiler

>>1193853
Stucco/Drywalling

You will regret it though

Starting as an apprentice electrician you don't need much. Bare minimum is #2 phillips, flat head, linesman, strippers, needle nose pliers. This is assuming you are working with an older person you will be able to use their tools and/or the company's tools. Then 1/4", 5/16", and 3/8" nut drivers. Fluke T-5 600V meter, plug in gfci tester, large pair of channel locks, and a good hammer drill will get you pretty far. #2 square tip screwdriver not a necessity but will make life much easier; angled dykes are handy to have as well.

Starting out though costs are low. My company worked with me-bought the tools and spread out the cost over first few paychecks which made intro into trade much easier. A good tool belt is a necessity for the long term, but starting out it isn't a requirement.

Really your future trade shouldn't rely on startup costs.

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>>1197820
>he thinks being a slave for four years is a good idea

>>1193855
This.
My father was poor growing up but went to mechanic school at 16 and then slowly built up a supply of tools.

>>1197534
>duct tape and a can-do attitude
That and some dried cum can do wonders.

>>1193853
Tailor.
Sewing/stitching kits aren't much and you can get a small sewing machine for pretty cheap but if you look hard enough or get lucky on craigslist, you can get a good one used but free.

If you live in the south go into pipefitting. A lot of companies will hire you as a helper with zero experience for $20ish an hour on turnarounds, which is usually 7 12 hour shifts a week, but the jobs only last a month or two. Show up with nothing, and when the jobs over go buy the basics. Some places will tell you that you need tools, but nobody really counts on a green helper to much. When I started I was told on my first day to go buy 3 things. A pocket knife (or a utility knife, jobsite depending), some kleins (aka linesmans pliers), and a watch.

>>1197955
That said, I do now own a couple thousand in tools, but I worked up to that over the last 4 years.

>>1195908
>>1195575
>>1195573
It's only gonna get worse as battery technology advances and the energy density increases.

>>1197857
They're called indentured apprentices for a reason

>>1197955
Currently doing welding for a shop, where would I start looking to get into pipefitting?

>>1193857
How does one become a "fencer"?

Plasterer painter bricklayer, they're not real trades but theyre useful

>>1198091

Start hanging out in seedy bars, and... oooohh, I imagine ask a local farmer who does his work, and see if you chat them into giving you some tips and directions or even training.

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>>1198093

They can be, if you are dedicated to becoming damn good at them. It's not like some of the other 'trades' are particularly complex. Since I started looking into skilled trades (and chose one), I was pretty disillusioned.

'Skilled' trades is almost ironic when talking about some. Though, of course, they ARE more skilled than sitting at a check out or wiping up vomit on Isle 4, but I was expecting a lot more complexity for the generally hight pay. Shit, now I'm aroused at the high pay-to-skill ratio. brb.

>>1198107
I like your brain anon

>>1198091
Go online and go to whatever the fuck is the American version of fence post (farming job website) and look for fencing jobs where you'll be working for a company. Say you have experience from dairy farming and BAAM!! You're now a fencer for the rest of your life.

>>1198108
Yeah that's my sparky complex coming through.
I've got a lot of respect for any skilled craftsman tho.

>>1197890
Actually this isn't a bad idea.

There aren't any tailors anymore.
I bought some good dress-y pants, and a couple years later needed then re-hemmed... went looking for a tailor.
None to be found.

Found a 80 year old lady that worked out of her garage on saturdays, but she wouldn't do mens alterations.

>>1198176
If you have a military base near by. Guaranteed there will be a shop full of Filipino ladies who do alterations.

>>1198087
First thing to do is get familiar with welding forums, and this is not a welding forum. You can learn fitting and stick/TIG at the same time.

Study all you can and ask questions. Since you already have a welding job but didn't specify what process, you could use that to get good at stick and TIG until you can pass a 6G pipe test. 6010 and 7018 are your friends so burn a few cans getting good.

If you have steady work at the shop, you already know what PPE to use and how not to die on a job site.

I suggest you say NOTHING about changing jobs and just express that you love welding and want to learn fitting. Then contact local welders (not from work for OPSEC) and make friends with them. Tell them your experience level and say you want to go on the road as a fitter if they get a long contract. You can also contact industrial contractors (VISIT in person, human contact shits all over phone tag!) and ask what's open.

You can get pipefitting books and practice fitting using scrap. If your boss will let you practice after hours or whatever, I suggest doing that. You aren't a green welder which helps greatly.

Weldingweb is the best forum by fucking far. I sent all my students there.

http://rigwelder.com/forum/ is flagged as a deceptive site (I've no idea why, I've been using it for years but I use DIFFERENT browsers for shit that matters and surfing da net. It's a gold mine of info and you can post your experience level then ask for advice after lurking. Maybe someone local will take you on as a helper.

Be ready to hit the road and go to the work. Be able to work with a fixed lens helmet or an autodark interchangeably. I use Fibre-Metal Pipeliners with fixed or ArcOne autodark lenses. Know what a pancake hood is and consider getting one.

>>1198087
I forgot to mention this vital part of being a good fitter. The better you are with a torch the less grinding you'll have to do, so become wonderful at straight and curved cuts. I prefer silver pencil to chalk and they are cheap so I buy them by the box. Anything that's cheap and makes life easier is a good thing. Bonus if you can use an oxy-acetylene gouging tip. Review this even if you think you know how to use a cutting torch.

http://weldingweb.com/showthread.php?63275-How-to-use-a-cutting-torch

If you don't cut pipe where you work learn how to use a wraparound or a long strip of emery cloth, or a strip of heavy gray gasket paper which is what most wraparounds are made of.

Get good at bevelling pipe and grinding a landing. Usual thickness is a nickel. Neatness is much more important than speed!

Reference material:
http://www.browntechnical.org/products/the-pipe-fitters-blue-book.html

https://pipefitter.com/store/wraparounds/

>>1198217
>>1198260
Lots of info, thanks anon

>>1193853
I got a 22 piece electrical tool kit for $70 when I started. I spent maybe $50 more to complete my set. It wasn't a quality set, but I dealt with it and slowly replaced them when I started making money.

>>1198176

Come to the Caribbean. Tailors and cobblers galore, even on the richer islands.

>>1193853
Pastry chef, pizzaman etc

>>1197534
I determined the problem was just a lack of water control. First I trenched around the grade beam under the house (I am 6'4"/250lbs working in a 2' crawlspace) and laid geotextile and clean peastone granite in place of weeping tile. Then for drainage I dug a 7' hole under the worst corner and set in a 12'x7' green pvc pipe which perforated by hand and wrapped in geotextile, surrounded it with more stone and wall mounted the cord to keep it out of water (found 9" of water under the house the first day of my "vacation"). Now I just have an extension cord coming out of the floor to plug in when raining.

On each wall of the foundation I put in a 5/16"x4" angle steel (20' on double cracked wall, 8' on each other wall) and mounted them with 1/2"x8" wedge anchors. I installed the wedge anchors with a fucking pathetic 6A mastercraft corded hammer drill I got on sale for 47.99 reg 129.99. I exchanged that drill and bit set combo at least 6 times (hahahahaha no I'm not sure why they keep dumping all the grease and breaking triggers).

I then just re tightened the wedge anchor bolts and new teleposts every week until the floor was lebelle and some of the drywall cracks strated to close. The worst part was figuring out which thing to turn to close which cracks while maintaining level.

So in answer to your question, people with can-do attitudes dream of having my work ethic and attitude. Next house will definitely have a basement though.

How do apprenticeships work? For some trades, do you just get a job at the bottom? Who measures your apprenticeship hours? Can an apprentice have more than one journeyman at once?

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>>1200200
tell us another one, o master of improv?

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>>1200592
One time I had to drop a tree alongside my house. I had only ratchet straps, some cement blocks for counterweight, a shitty axe and a making sawsall. Basically disassembled the tree from the top down using a ratchet strap to hold myself against the tree. Then I tensioned the trunk to a steel peg to pull it in away from its natural fall position (the house). Ratchet was flattened but it was free.

Opened up a wall in my house recently to find the proffesionally "installed" exterior door had massive gaps in each corner. This caused a 45 degree rot zone that extended 6 feet to a crawlspace vent under a baseboard heater. The floor joists were rotted about 2 feet from the ledger plate. I decided to scab in new joist, put 4' 2x10 pressure treated from the plate and lag bolted it all together. Coated fucking everything in spray foam and put new floor over it.

My house has been a nightmare's worst nightmare fellow /diy)nosaurs. If I still had all the pictures of everything it would have made a good thread.

Lesson to be learned: under no circumstances should you fully trust a realtor or home inspector.

>>1198087
Contrary to what some of these other anons are recommending, check out your local pipefitters/steamfitters union. It's one of the few trade unions left where you don't have to buy your own tools (in fact, it's so actively discouraged to bring your own tools that you can get run off a job for doing so).

It also provides medical benefits, pension, and a higher wage than most non-union counterparts.

You'd be looking at a 5 year paid apprenticeship. My local does school two nights a week throughout the regular school year, off of school during the summer. When we become journeyman, it's 31 something an hour, not including your benefits which are paid on your behalf by the contractor.

With fuck-all experience, you can easily start out making 10 - 13 an hour depending on the local.

>>1193853
Art is pretty cheap, if you let it be. Pencil, paper, old wacom intuos 3 if you're into digital. Set for life for $100~

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General handyman.
shopping list:
-Hammer drill
-Extension cord
-Drill bits
-Tool box with tools from ebay / car boot sale for less than £40 (inc: claw hammer, files, rasps, screwdrivers, ratchet driver, plane, screws, rawl plugs, scrapers, pokers, spirit level, adjustable spanner, hack saw, wood saw, tennon saw)

Total approx £100

This will give you the experience you need and the money you need to specialize which will get you higher paid work in the trade of your choice.

>>1195573
>A shame it's slow as fuck because it's userbase has better things to do than shitpost all day.
Not a shame at all, I think /diy/ is my favorite and if it was as hyperactive as /b/ or /pol/ I would not enjoy it as much.

>>1197857
All humor aside it was the best decision I ever made. I work for a family owned company that actually cares about their employees. They don't treat you like you are slaves, are grateful and recognize when you go the extra mile, etc.

I left a retail job taking a $4/hr paycut, lost 6 weeks vacation to start my career. I now make more than I ever have before. You can be at the top rung of a ladder you don't want to be on and be miserable, or you can choose a different ladder and start from the bottom rung and climb your way up. I chose a different ladder and couldn't be happier. I hope everyone finds their niche in life.

>>1193948
Isn't it weird that we have so many explosive things around us in our lifes, people say that hydrogen or nuclear powered cars would be too dangerous but we put batteries like these right against our heads,

>>1197494
Why did he react like that?

>>1196738
Hahahahahaha no. Machining is one if the worst trades about this. You're expected to have all your own shit at some point save the machines themselves and good metrology equipment costs big money.

>>1194184
I can solder with a nail and a butane torch but it sure as fuck isn't as perfectly fine a job as when I use my JBC.

>>1202913
He was a former rcmp officer, those guys are trained to have an enormous delicate ego.

>>1200429
Normally you work 4 days a week and do one day at college, you get paid shit pay for the first year, it's something like £3.50 an hour.

Become a welder for contractors. Great pay, can learn from being just a hand in no time. Just bring leathers and your welding hood. They provide everything else. Usually not labor intensive and you get treated better than most.

>>1197958
There's hope of a glass based battery which doesn't explode on the horizon
>miniature nuclear reactors when

>>1200429
Depends on the jurisdiction.

Here, you go to school for one or two months a year and spend the rest of the time working. You write an exam each year and your supervisor signs off on your record book. You can work under multiple journeymen but one journeyman supervisor is responsible for apprenticeship records.

The wages are set by law and by the union, usually somewhere from 50% to 90% depending on what trade and year of apprenticeship.

>>1193853
How bad is it for electricians. Starting a course this year, kind of curious how much tools are going to cost me when I get out there professionally?

>>1205655
Depends what field you work in but as an apprentice you shouldn't need much more than basic hand and power tools, and a multimeter.

As a journeyman in commercial or residential work you may need a few more items depending on what you're doing.

If you get into industrial you'll need high voltage equipment and other specialized tools.

>>1205655
543.00 48.00 120.00 78.71 46.96 47.95 45.68 24.97 21.25 =974 Im a second year apprentice, and your cost probably wont be as much as mine because I just wanted to accumulate a bunch of tools if I ever needed them. But realistically its probably gonna cost you 600 or more. Go to tag sales to find nice old tools like big ass screwdrivers and tools that you can get for cheap that you wont use too often like caulk guns.

>>1202909
people have been taught that hydrogen (hindenburg disaster) and n00klear power (chernobyl) are scary
Just the crappy 3 second b/w hindenburg footage, accompanied by some scientist on the Discovery Channel talking like "it was awful back then, five thousand million billion of short fucktonnes of hydrogen exploded, fire, HELL, germans, more SCARY", will make people go mental.

Same as the endless discussion about nookielar energy

Tailoring and garment-making aren't really "trades" like you'd think of when someone says they're a tradesman, but all you need is thread, sewing needles, pins of various sorts, an iron and ironing board (ironing edges flat before joining them makes them look insanely better, and try pleating things nicely without ironing them first (you cant)), and a sewing machine. Thread and needles are super cheap, and a machine can be found for under 50 bucks used. It won't be some 1800s model, but even a 70s base model Singer will have all the bells and whistles you need.

Even just doing hand sewing, you can quickly and easily do most repairs and alterations. You can also overtly modify clothes; replace buttons with velcro, velcro with buttons, that kind of thing.

It also doesn't scale up with your skill, because really, you'll just be using MORE pins and MORE thread and not really need fundamentally different tools, like how you'll graduate from hand tools to machine tools to CNC tools in a traditional trade. Really, the biggest investment you might make affter getting started is getting a more robust sewing machine so you can sew thicker materials like soft leather or very thick cotton like suits are made of.

But even then, it's possible to just take a ruler and hand sew those materials. Thick needles that won't break even on thick leather like for wallets are super cheap, you usually get one or two in a set of needles you can get for a dollar at something like Shoppers Drug Mart or w/e

>>1198176
I find that there aren't many tailors because most people just don't get their clothes tailored or repaired in favor of just buying new stuff entirely.

>>1198190
I've been to CFB Stadacona and CFB Esquimalt and saw few to no tailoring/alteration places. Despite all the complaints about ill-fitting uniforms that lack whatever features, no one really would take me up on my offers to fuck with their NCDs and add velcro bits or take them in at the waist or whatever.

>>1206259
I think it's pronounced newcuelar

>>1206313
There's also no tailors at CFB Edmonton. There's plenty of tailors in the city, obviously, but (as far as I know) only one that does mess and full dress.

Anyone here a plasterer? Would you reccomend?

what's a trade/profession that doesn't require thousands of dollars worth of tools?
street whore

>>1202573
Looking to get into the trade, can I be prying and ask how much you make now, and how long you've been at it?

>>1193853
Painting go to sherwin williams get Purdy blue bristle latex brush, a black Purdy chinex oil brush, and a 5 in 1 tool. So like 5070$ if that..

>>1206428
No, plasterers are universally dropkicks, and you have to fix everyone else's fuckups
Plus any delay holds finishing up

>>1197958
With lithium batteries it's more a function of the materials used than it is the energy density. They happen to combust very readily, but not every battery material does. Li-ion isn't even capable of all that impressive a discharge rate. There are comparable chemistries like nickel-zinc or silver-oxide with such high discharge capability that they will instantly melt wires attached to them in a dead short but they themselves will fail in a wet fart instead of an explosion.

>>1197534
A firm handshake

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>>1195573
>better things to do
There comes a point in a mans life (for me it was 32) where if they dont have a wife or daughter they reach peak diylessness, everything is already done and if something does need doing then decades of work have made you incredible efficient at it. It was a tough time in my life, im just lucky I have a blue collar job and hobbies, and my mandatory 9 hours of shitposting a day.

>>1193853
Sucking dick

>>1193853
If you own a seamless gutter machine, all you need to hang gutters is an extension ladder, a step ladder, a level, 1/4" polebarn screws and an impact driver.

>>1195152
>A typical career track is training or getting a job as a helper, then as you NEED tools adding them.
This.

I'm a carpenter and now have thousands of dollars worth of tools. I started as a laborer on a framing crew at 17 with a belt, framing hammer, cats paw, speed square, and chalk line. Shouldn't be more than $100 these days, and of course much cheaper if you buy used or already own some of these.

>>1193853
car tinter.

>>1208665
you still need to invest in some kneepads though if you intend on making a sizeable income while maintaining the quality of the joints in your knees

>>1194221
That's why you offer new gear also. They will likely contact you if there is more business to be done later on. Always put your contact/business info on a sticker and mark your computers ect. People always call when they want you to come and fix it.

>>1193853
Car detailing?

>>1195571
The perils of being a tradesman made me think of a recent short film called Cannibals & Carpet Fitters.