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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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[-] glimse@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago

That has not been the experience of any of my friends in the trades and that's not a small number

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That’s the plumbers, electrical, boilers, elevator, carpentry, lathing, scaffolding, HVAC, refrigeration trades/unions at least.

Schooling is done and provided by the union and not secondary institutes, so they control everyone who goes through their system. In the vast majority of them, you won’t even get in unless you know someone.

You must not actually know anyone in a trade, or you know just the few people in trades that aren’t heavily unionized that aren’t like this.

It’s an extremely well known and common issue.

[-] Magrath@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago

That's not how it happens in Canada. Private institutions run schooling and the government oversees the apprenticeship program. Unions don't have much say in it at all.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Went through the system in Canada, it’s great that they have also started harmonizing stuff across provinces too. Before if you were a third year in BC, you would have to start as a first year in AB as the schooling was too different.

Unfortunately there is some trades that you still need to know someone to get in, since you need a company to sponsor your apprenticeship before being accepted by the government program.

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

My partner is in an apprenticeship program for electrical and plumbing. We're in a city so large, with so many tradespeople, that a given field has multiple unions within the same metro area. What you're describing is not at all anyone's experience in this area of the U.S.

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