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Which career path is not ruined by AI?
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this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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i went into a dying trade in my 20s ugh and stuck with it now i'm too old to start a new one outside of maybe CDL. so yeah make sure you are physically up to it first (i am in very good shape for my age and look 10 years younger but i would be obliterated by the multiple year "break in" apprentice period again and likely would just get in a fist fight with someone trying to "break me" and destroy them and go to prison or vice versa)
Maybe I just skipped it because I was a factory tech for a while but there was no "breaking" in my experience. The worst we have is a tendancy to throw aprentices into being full techs a bit too quick sometimes.
i'm sure it varies place to place, might have something to do with where i reside
i have family that could fast track me into commercial HVAC tech (which i could absolutely handle) and skip the grunt work/crawlspace/installation stuff but they are a bit too far away for me to leverage the connection
Yeah, that's probably a lot of it. Around me everywhere is so short handed that companies will bend over backwards to get/keep people. Beating up on newbies is a great way for them to have no employees because those newbies could just as easily get a job at a dozen other outfits the next day.
Also, I hate to tell you this but, commercial doesn't necissarily keep you out of crawlspaces. It's more rare but the few crawlspaces that you do wind up having to deal with wind up being much bigger (and not in the good way).