My father in law (RIP) was a plumber and pneumatic control line mechanic, who eventually moved into AC repair. All were good fields to be in 30 or 40 years back, for people willing to put in a really hard day's work. At one time I offered that if he would start a business, I would leave the pharmaceutical industry and go to work for him. He could teach me as I did the grunt work (Lots of lifting and moving stuff) and eventually I would buy the business from him. He was afraid to leave his Pneumatic controls job to the uncertainty of a private company, so we never worked it out. If a person is a very hard worker, there are really good businesses out there, such as plumbing and electric stuff. However if you are not a really hard worker, you will be a miserable failure.

My best example is plumber who does sewage work. Folks are willing to pay a lot on a Saturday night to get their shite moving out of their house into the sewer or septic system. Of course, getting shite on you is literally a big part of this well-paying job. Something tells me a fifteen-year-old with no interest in anything, would be a failure in this kind of career.

If he doesn't mind pissing in a plastic gallon jug and being on the road 24/7, he could go to big Truck driving school.

Be sure to tell him he will never make it as a competition Video game player. Also tell him, the mexicans have the laborer field wrapped up and are willing to work harder than he ever will.

Best thing my dad ever did for me was to get me jobs as a stake driving laborer on big construction sites, when it was blazing hot and bitter cold and rainy because they led me to an understanding there were better ways to get rich, other than digging 100 yard drainage ditches by hand with a flat blade shovel, in July.

Worked a job one summer carrying 12 soot pieces of sheet rock with another laborer up five or six floors of stairs in a building under construction. Every time we dropped a sheet onto the pile up stairs, the construction guys would yell at us for not being quicker to twist that heavy shite up the 4 to 6 floors of stairwells. Great job for a kid who has no work goals.

This post was edited on 5/10/24 at 9:26 am