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What careers don’t get enough credit for being fulfilling, acceptable pay and a good work life balance?

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[-] technomad@slrpnk.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Trades. Learn a trade. Electrician?

[-] RainfallSonata@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago

My kid fell for this. They promise you’ll get paid while you learn. What they don’t tell you is that IF you manage to pass the entrance exam (he did) you get put on a list for open apprenticeship positions, waiting to be called in at any moment. While you’re on that list you don’t get paid. If you do get a spot, contracts only last a couple of months. Then you go back on the list. Rinse and repeat. And the longer you’ve been in the union the higher up you get placed on the list. So the older members get placed before the newer ones no matter what number they were in line. This “join a trade” push is similar to the charter school scam, siphoning up state and federal training funds without delivering results.

[-] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That sounds like a specific problem to whatever country you live in, not trades in general.

[-] Magrath@lemmy.ca 12 points 7 months ago

This is such a bad take. Getting in to the apprenticeship doesn't gaurantee you work. You have to look at the market in your area to see if there is work for the trade you are going in to. Schools and job posting can give you hints on this. You may have to move where the jobs are. It's a reality.

That union runs on a seniority priority for job call outs. Not all unions go by this, the one I was a part of gave priority to those who worked least the last 365 days. Don't paint the whole system as a scam.

Also my union didn't have contracts for callouts. The companies asked for X amount of guys, they go out for the duration the project. If they like you and there's more work available then they keep you instead of sending you back on the out of work list. But that's the nature of construction, it's up and down and you never know if you have a job after completing a project.

Apprenticeships work the same for non-union, but you have to look for more work yourself if you get let go, same as any other job in the world.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In my experience, plumbers and electricians are near impossible to hire. I’m a branch manager and unless they’re severely under paid or HATE the people they work for they won’t jump ship. There’s a major lack of them already and it’s only going to get worse. HVAC techs are the easiest to hire.

[-] PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 points 7 months ago

Not to mention how it's an old boys club who are just doing their own union minimums when they offer apprenticeship spots, not even the people in trades want to be part of the trades pipeline

The only people pushing trades are economists realizing the implications of all the trade electricians being near retiring age, and amgy Republicans who see it as a way to undercut the political trends that increasingly college educated folks have been pushing

[-] Zerlyna@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I’m totally pushing learning a trade for my niece. Most trades can’t be outsourced or done with AI. And it’s pure gold again from South Park. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RcoGzT9QrTI

[-] Tidesphere@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Must be a state by state thing. My partner recently moved to trades from another career, and it's correct that you get put on a list of apprenticeship positions, but they employ you to actively do work the entire time.

[-] aclarkc@midwest.social 6 points 7 months ago

I’ve considered trades even with it being a full 180 from what I do now. Seems like location can vastly vary the experience. Build the base and bones of what society runs off of seems interesting though.

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Have you considered the building or sales side of networking? One of my yoga teachers does communications systems design, installation and training and she loves it. Implementations in general is good work if you understand systems. Helping people get up and running, designing their setup.

[-] aclarkc@midwest.social 1 points 7 months ago

I think that’s an idea that I might have to seriously consider. I loved building out my own, and it’s an area I have some general expertise in. Thanks!

[-] Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 7 months ago

Completely unrelated... be sure to get a will

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