re: Is there anything that I should know before trade school?

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LSU777 is 100% correct...very few tradesmen in any area making $100k a year. I doubt seriously if ANY electrician, plumber or the like is doing so in Louisiana and NOT working what would amount to nearly 2 years for most people every year...7-12s is 4 hours more a week than having 2 full time jobs. Working OT is a problem in the trades...if a person is not interested in working 6 and 7 days a week 10-12 hours a day they will have a hard time in the trades most likely.

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they don't wanna talk about that

i will say the lifestyle operations and instrument tech guys have...are good ones but the shift work sucks. and to make really good money, you have to work lots of overtime. and now a days, its hard to get hired without a ptech degree which isn't trade school, same with instrumentation degree. in fact almost impossible.

if you can get hired as a tradesman by a plant..its a good life... as the retirement is good.

the rest...both in the plants, the supporting trades, and the building trades suck dick. you will end up like PeeJ living in a falling down trailer in Denham springs beggin people on here to send you $20 and faking cancer.