/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2583200
>>plumbing and electrical
>high pay and if you play your cards right you can run your own company
Plumbing is the only truth. Electrical is one of the most regulated trades in the US and UK. I left electrical after 15 years for working in IT. I make almost as much money in under a year as year 12 in the the trades. The trades will rob you of your youth and best years of your life. You might like working with you hands now it its less cute in the mid 40s. The trades often ruins the body and by the time you want to leave you are stuck and have a limp. This is true even for union fags. The pension and other benefits aren't worth it when you work your whole youth to spend you elder years having that wealth you generated extracted in medical bills.

Fuck the trades its for people who don't have the skills. I regret not leaving 8-10 years sooner. The trades will introduce you to man made horrors the like of which you will not understand. You will attempt to tell yourself if you can make it another few years you will be a project manager or union card carrying journeyman. But you will be broken or get cancer before 50. I am here typing this out to warn you not to do this. Get a job as a security guard and spend you time taking Comptia A+, Network+ Maybe Security+. You will be safer pay just as much as a fucking 4th year sparky. Realize I made as much money now as I did as a foreman(15 years) resetting passwords, AD DS, Azure and routing and switching. Do not through away your life. Do you understand?

>>2542188
>Manmade horrors beyond comprehension