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How do I make enough money to live?
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Reach out if you're interested in blue collar work. I'll give you my number and you can call even. I can advise from personal experience on truck driving, water/wastewater treatment careers, or railroad work.
Truck driving has the benefit of being able to cut expenses to near zero by going over the road if you have few obligations. Getting a cushion this way makes settling down and going local much easier, even though I make more local than I ever did over the road.
I don't haul freight anymore either, and I don't think that's a long-term good prospect. Blue collar jobs where you work with the truck but have onsite work with it are a bit more resilient against automation I believe. Think wastewater cleaning, railroad, lineman, heavy haul, etc.
I been saying this for almost as long as I have been in the all-things-waste sector. If you don't know what to do with your life consider this. It's a huge field from air scrubbers, to ground water remediation, to industrial scrap, to feces, to recycling, to solvent recovery, to chemical waste processing, to trash incinerators, to pulping equipment, and heck even regular HVAC falls under it sometimes.
Everyone shits and everyone makes garbage. As long as humans are still around someone is going to have to deal with that fact. And if there aren't humans around you won't have to worry about a job.
Every working day of my life I choose to make the world a slightly cleaner place, I am harder to fire than a normal civil servant, get paid well, and always have the most badass stories of my friend-group. Most people can't talk about the time they came up with the ideas to fight a frozen shitberg with a blowtorches for example.
There are a lot of ways to break in. If I was starting fresh I would probably apply for government jobs at a facility, start entry-level, and let them pay to train me. I came in as an engineer at a small contractor.