Best trades

Is welding the best trade to get into? What does pol suggest for someone that wants a good paying high demand trade?

Electrician

>Welding
>High paying
Pick one.

You should learn multiple trades.

HVAC
Electrician

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It can be, relatively speaking.

But you're being exposed to all sorts of things if you're not wearing a respirator and other gear. Most people I've seen don't, they just wear gloves/jacket and the mask usually.

>want to be electrician
>have to be sponsored by a company to go to school
>have to have experience to be hired by a company to have a chance to be sponsored

Why is it so hard?

Huge demand in anything aviation.

This. I think I'm going to settle for plumbing instead, it seems a bit easier to get your foot in the door in that industry.

Come to 'Murika, huge deficit of electricians. Multiple trade schools in every state and many are hired by their 3rd year of apprenticeship(first working year)

Heavy Equipment
Trucking

welding isn't always the highest paying but if you know the right people and get any hookups and can be tremendously lucrative. One really cool thing about welding though, is the creative freedom. My first job as a welder was in a furniture studio which was really hip and fun my second was as an independent contractor which gave me something new to do everyday and i could smoke and drink beer at my work table. If i could give you one piece of advice it would be not to go to school for welding though, it's retarded unless you end up with union connections. Just apply to places and tell them you'll do bitch work and practice on the welders during lunch. it'll save you lots of money

Go HVAC if not electrician, plumbing is shit work but you'll make good money either way. Industrial HVAC is fucking caaaake tho

Hvac is the only trade worth doing longer than 5-10 years

where do you live? you can go to tradeschool without sponsor here.

>Multiple trade schools
do you do trade school than become an apprentice? i know you have to have so many hours before you can become a licensed electrician

Welding (especially if you can get on with a specialty welding company) is extremely lucrative. If you worked in the industrial sector and combined it with learning CAD software you could then move into a pipe design role with an engineering firm. Some of these guys make $100/hr

>Trucking
I would get to work on becoming a trucker tomorrow fucking morning if someone can convince me that the whole industry wont be automated within the next 40 years.

>ITT: alcoholic blue collar plebs married to a hambeast who shat out ADHD stricken half-nigger kids

You have to go to school in order to become a certified weld inspector and that's actually pretty good money. Honestly, a lot of jobs in the welding industry pay shit because it's uncertified jobs that don't require a skilled worker or trigger puller mig fabrication.

I live in BC where do you live?

how was your day off amigo?

Millwright is a good one. My brother got into a union and makes 60k+ working only six months a year.

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There's your problem, you're Canadian.

It won't be.

Way too much liability in it and at the end of the day truckers still need to secure loads and unload shit. Plus, you get exposed to a lot of other industry via doing it.

You can literally live in a cab and be a on-road NEET. /o/ literally has truckerfag threads with anons that make a living doing this

Forklift welder
If you can get an under water position its 10x the pay.

>alcoholic blue collar
yes

>married to a hambeast who shat out ADHD stricken half-nigger kids
no

>forklift welder
wat

Law Enforcement. My base salary is almost $100,000 with 12 years. $136,800 when I include Tri-OT and other Special Salaries bonuses;

Yeah, the guys in that trucker thread are a different breed of user, I'll give them that. I don't know if that's the lifestyle for me, I'd like to drive truck, but I'd be willing to make less money if it meant being home most nights. As for automation, there all sorts of opinions on it, I just really am terrified of the idea that I could be 50 years old and find my skills totally obsolete. What the fuck else am I gonna do at that point? Too young to retire, too old to realistically learn anything new.

everyone is retarded - do massage or related physical therapy u get $$$ and hardly work, why get welding cancer when you can just move peoples meat around

Yeah, they are good guys, I'm more in to Heavy Equipment so I just lurk there desu. A lot of them browse Sup Forums.

>What the fuck else am I gonna do at that point?
Honest it will never be completely automated. You still need money put up to invest into a fleet of trucks. Be that guy.

It's the eternal question, you got to find a way to make yourself useful. Through skills or wise investments.

State or Federal. Do not bother with Local/County. Unless, you want to stay where you are. A Bachelors/Masters Degree or prior Military Service will make you stand out and more likely to get hired. I am still in the ARNG.

It depends. Most people do a "pre-apprenticeship" program, then get hired as an apprentice, work so many hours, go back to school for a few months to take advanced classes, rinse and repeat for about 4 years before they write their journeyman exam to get licensed.

I think that the "pre-apprenticeship" classes are a relatively new thing. Old-school tradesmen think they are a pile of shit and are of little practical use. I don't know if they are right or not, it just isn't the way they did things, they just went out and got hired.

maybe like long haul but not heavy machinery operators. i dont know the term but the guys who drive bulldozers, backhoes, cranes, stuff like that. they wont ever automate that stuff.

Welding can be good pay if you keep working on your skills. Pressure tanks, live gas lines, shit that can kill you if you screw up. I've worked with guys in the oil field that get flown to rigs on private helicopters to do underwater work.

That said, it's miserable and it will destroy you. Your eyes and lungs will be reckd by the time you're 40.

I'll second or third commercial HVAC. Shit is so basic, but pays so well, it's almost criminal.

In Canada our federal law enforcement officers spend their time pulling over drunk drivers and responding to domestic disturbances in East Bumblefuck Nowhere.

wow that picture is really impressive.

building/carpentry is good

>can never be automated
>lots of variety (new houses, extensions, rennos)
>can have a wages job and do cashies on the weekend
>can do up your own house
>can get off tools eventually and manage sites to save your body, can't do that shit with most trades

underwater forklift welding?

sounds pretty specialist

That is what we do at State Level, but once you get pass Patrol, many possibilities open up. I have been Narcotics, Homicide, Gangs and now I am ACERT(State-level SWAT Team) in the Counter-Terrorism and Human Trafficking Task Forces. ACERT would be your Provincial/Federal ERT's

Don't you need a lot of experience and certifications to do underwater welding? Like, they can't just take any welder.

Yeah I hear you, I'm thinking about just going for it and getting my class 1 license. If my job is automated in 20 years I will learn how to operated bulldozers and excavators. I also have application in to trade schools for both electrical and plumbing. Basically I'm pretty confused about all this shit and it is driving me nuts. I would like to just pick a career and do it.

Rookie in a big city here. Is the pay for state agencies usually that high or do you live in an exceptional state?

Welding is okay. Pay differs depending on what you're welding, which will
obviously be impacted by your skill level and which tickets you are able
to acquire.

It's not a comfy job by any means, and you're breathing all those fumes
from the flux and the steel.

It's actually pretty rough.

Do what you think you'll enjoy and you'll be better and more successful.

Starting salary with a Master's and prior Active Army service, current ARNG and combat experience got me a start salary of $65,000. 'Normal' starting salary is $47,000 to $50,000 and $62,000 for prior LE/lateral transfers. I live in the South.

Nobody wants to be a shitsucker.

If you want to make a good money but have your nervous system wrecked and develop facial twitches, go for it. Friend of mine did it and then started his own small company after like 5 years. Cleared 250k last year

I dabble in both MIG and TIG welding. It's pretty cool.

What do you guys think of Electrician? Is it good to go into?

It won't be. Truckers will be rolling office workers. Dispatchers and terminals will change. Planes have been flying themselves for a few decades but there are still pilots.

Go into concrete.

I hear there's going to be a lot of work on the southern border.

Fly jets .. see the world .. demand for autists to operate high technology .. earn plenty of shekels.

Go to law school. that's what i did.

The Electrical field is over saturated, go Plumbing you will make more and find a job easier. I graduated HVACR tech school 8 months ago, got 6 offers right out of the gate. I took 19hr with full benefits to do Commercial HVACR, got a 2016 Nissan Van, Ipad, Iphone, Gas Card, Credit Card. Its not a ton of money but you have to start from the ground up in this field, I now have a Gas Licence/Oil License/Refrigeration Apprenticeship/EPA/OSHA 10. I switched to a new company and start this coming tuesday, 20hr with full benefits to start. Top pay for Master Hvac techs is usually capped at 47hr, but you get overtime and profit sharing.

No. Welding will likely be automated within your lifetime as visual learning technologies are integrated with practical robotics. Even sooner for this guy's suggestion Plumbing, hvac, electrician and you'll be good.

dental hygenist

I'm a whitesmith myself, it's a pretty great job. I do silverware for restaurants and shops and work on soft metals like tin, silver, etc. sometimes i get a call from a museum to do a replica of old swords and weapons and shit in soft metals so they're not as dangerous.

I'm noticing a few Canadian flags here, so have any of you guys heard anything good or bad about the pre-apprenticeship programs in Humber College in Toronto? What about the job prospects for new apprentices in southern Ontario?

>Gay

I abandoned a career in IT to become a carpenter. Get a proper trade profession, OP. It's the only job security you'll ever get.

Going into either hvac or electrical. Having second thoughts and considering horticulture so I can grow weed in this place called tittybong when it gets legal gonna call it tittybong kush.

Are you nuts, I do Commercial HvacR for a living, you call 60ton York units with 5 scroll compressors and 9 foot Evap Coils basic, not to mention some of the controls on these new Lennox units. I deal with 24v circuits, 120v circuits, 220v circuits, 460v circuits all on one roof sometimes. Thats not even getting into some of the ZeroZone reach in/walk in freezers. Basic ? Are you insane ?

There not a lot work in Ontario.

Fucking scabs are flooding SK and AB soaking up all the
work and inviting their friends over and giving them first
pick. They scratch each other's back and show an egregious
amount of nepotism. The bag licking is atrocious.

As if it weren't bad enough with all the muds...

That's a lot of gear to suck poo from the loo

Join a union and get paid for training

Second public saftey of any sort. County or municipal pay better than state on the Fire Side.

FIREFIGHTER-PARAMEDIC
> $80,000 a year base
> I make about an additional $30,000 in OT.

Only work roughly 100 actual physical days a year.

Will need a college degree in something relevant and a padded resume of working for private ambulances or seasonal/volunteer firefighting to get a decent job.

Do you regularly get to kill niggers?

I want a job where I can kill niggers legally but don't want to join the military

yeah but you have to work with illegals unless you assemble your own crew

its definately up their in the trades

very useful talent to have in trumps empire

do you sharpen your edge every time before you post or are you naturally that edgy?

Anything that has something to do with. You would be surprised how much people would pay for something they don't understand.

.......I work with NZers sometimes

Underwater Welders make a SHITLOAD of dough.

isn't it dangerous as shit?

better than working with the blacks at mcdonalds

>Tfw my edge was stoned into S7 steel and never needs sharpened

It's not that bad man.

Used any 407 blends yet?

I'm learning to weld currently, hoping to get good enough to work on pipeline

I'd shoot for underwater but I don't want to fucking get killed

>leaf

Have you been sucking your daily quota of black cocks?

Professional welders who keep up on their certifications can easily make over $50/hr.
If you save up, buy some equipment and a truck and start your own business you can easily double that.
Welders make Fucking bank

Self driving trucks are only practical for cross country. For short hauls it will still be more practical to use a driver