re: Best Working Man Job: What Trade is Best for a Young Man?

My best friend Owns his own HVAC company, according to him people would sell their kids to have AC in their house. It also requires a lot of call outs and thats where you really make money.

Welding, you can make it pretty good but if you have a half a brain I'd be a pipe fitter. They simply don't make as many pipe welders into Job Foreman as they do pipe welders.

Plant Operator make great pay but their schedule sucks.

Plumbers make great money too, on their own they charge $60-70 bucks an hour, working on a construction crew they make about $25-35.


Don't overlook Electricians, there will always be a need for them as well or a barber, hard to find a good male barber these days and $60 an hour isn't to shabby.

Being a barber, plumber, HVAC guy or electrician is also one of the fastest ways to be a business owner.

This is where the OT tells us HVAC techs make 6 figs.

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Jump on a boat, see the world and earn sea time. Get your captain's license and see more of the world and make good money.

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This is a good answer too.

You're gone half the year but you only work half the year. I have several friends who run push boats and make well over $100,000 yearly. I have another buddy that was making close to $200,000 running a Supply Boat but they've been cut pretty hard.

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not going to college.

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Plant operator?

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Good luck. Most plants these days hire people with a degree. If you're looking for a field to start out in right now, Dow chemical in plaquemine is hiring apprentice operators and apprentice electrical and instrument techs. I think they start at $14hr. I would go I&E.

And playing in shite the rest of the year

1. Plant operator- but those jobs are tough to get and the better ones require an education(degree in process technology at least).

2. Best paying, no college will be in Industrial Industry(New Project work, Refinery, Chemical Plant, Power Plant)work.
Welder/Pipefitter/Operator/Rigger/Scaffold/Iron Worker/Insulator- good paying, definitely "working man" jobs.

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If you are a crook Hvac. Why does it seem like half of Hvac employees and companies are in it to rip you off? Plumbers and electricians for the most part seem to charge you pretty reasonably across the board with an hourly rate. Hvac guys show up and do 30 mins of work and love to charge you $200.

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You are a crook if you charge the market rate for you services?

Crane operator.
Heavy equipment operator

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f you are talking about ocean going vessels you are not going to get a captains slot without a degree from a maritime academy, same requirement for becoming a river pilot.

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Not true in my case, but I’ve been doing it for over 25 years. It is harder these days, but still doable. Experience and a big license can still work, especially in the private sector.

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