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re: Is there anything that I should know before trade school?
Posted on 10/2/23 at 6:09 pm to lawlcow318008
Posted on 10/2/23 at 6:09 pm to lawlcow318008
You should find out where the Red Wing store is.
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Posted on 10/2/23 at 6:15 pm to Bullfrog
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The thing about being an HVAC guy is you’re always leaving just when the indoor temperature gets nice.
Thing about being a plumber is digging in shite clogged pipes. Both suck until you can open your own business and get someone else to do the dirty work.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 6:34 pm to lawlcow318008
Good for you. Trade school / community college tech driven is a great thing. You will get your foundation there. You will also learn a lot where you decide to go to work. No matter if it’s refrigeration / process tech / electrical / E&I / automotive. I’d take advantage of the associates degree if afforded that opportunity at your school of choice. Can be in your hands in 2 years.
Once on the payroll, attitude and work ethic is everything. Stay positive and do the right thing. Doors will open. Whatever you are hired for, do that thing well first. Doors will open. Best of luck son.
Once on the payroll, attitude and work ethic is everything. Stay positive and do the right thing. Doors will open. Whatever you are hired for, do that thing well first. Doors will open. Best of luck son.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:17 pm to lawlcow318008
Go into plumbing. You don't need to go to school. Everything will be learned on the job. Do new construction first 2 years, then service plumbing for the next 2 of your apprenticeship.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 7:23 pm to lawlcow318008
I’ve been a physical therapist for 16 years. Outside of meeting my wife in PT school I wish I would’ve taken your path. Congrats on a great decision.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:49 pm to lawlcow318008
I've seen some good and bad third hand information in this thread but I'll put my two cents in. Do NOT go to trade school for machinist or CNC programming. You won't learn anything that will actually help you. It is worthless other than getting hired as a button pusher at a terrible job. Machining is a dying trade in the US because of outsourcing from China. At the same time the industry is being turned upside down by automation. The videos of machining you see on YouTube do not reflect real life in a production environment. You're much better off going another route and trying to start your own business after 10 years.
Source: I run a machine shop, from tooling to programming to fixturing, I do it all.
Source: I run a machine shop, from tooling to programming to fixturing, I do it all.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 8:54 pm to lawlcow318008
Do your homework. Get exposure to real job opportunities in your field if possible. When you interview, you’ll have some knowledge of the field.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 9:23 pm to Tangineck
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Do NOT go to trade school for machinist or CNC programming.
One of the most overbearing assholes I ever did IT contracting work for was a steel guy. It's probably not industry/material specific, but he was obsessed with blocking every possible non work aspect of computer functionality. I was just setting up racks and pulling cable, and I felt bad for the 20ish people working for him. He had us block DandyDon and other sites explicitly. It takes someone that's slow all of eight minutes to get through the posts every day? The horror.
Do something where you're in a truck by yourself, quickly, and run your own life. You get to manipulate your schedule, you get to pad it where you need it, etc. If you learn the technique now, before you graduate high school, you will be the hammer. Find a guy (If they're still working) that is Vietnam era, and they'll teach you how to do it the right way.
I concur with Tangineck, if it involves CAD, you're probably going to be around OCD people, whether it is architecture, steel, CNC, or something else. You need to learn to deal with people you don't necessarily like, but you also don't need to seek that out at this point in your maturity. You need to work at a place where you have sufficient rope to learn how to get better.
Posted on 10/2/23 at 9:35 pm to lawlcow318008
Yeah. You'll be 50 - at least - by the time your buddies who went to college start making more money than you.
This post was edited on 10/2/23 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 10/2/23 at 9:35 pm to lawlcow318008
Learn to be a locksmith. No climbing, crawling, or toting heavy tools.
Posted on 10/3/23 at 12:17 am to auggie
I have a friend that did refrigeration,I’m talking about refrigerators and freezers for restaurants and grocery stores and he did very well.
Worked for himself and his wife took care of all the billing and other paperwork.
Don’t discount college just because you hate high school.I hated school all 12 years of it.
I tried running heavy equipment for awhile,boring as hell and doesn’t pay that well unless you want to live in a camper and travel all over the country building highways and,such.
I went to college and excelled.I became a nurse which is definitely not for everybody but I enjoyed it,for a couple reasons.First I liked the sciences(only classes I liked in school) and it was very interesting and fulfilling.Weather was always nice,lots of eye candy around a hospital.
There are other jobs that pay well-ultrasound,CT or MRI tech.A really interesting job is echocardiography.and there is a shortage of them.
Whatever,definitely don’t quit high school.
Worked for himself and his wife took care of all the billing and other paperwork.
Don’t discount college just because you hate high school.I hated school all 12 years of it.
I tried running heavy equipment for awhile,boring as hell and doesn’t pay that well unless you want to live in a camper and travel all over the country building highways and,such.
I went to college and excelled.I became a nurse which is definitely not for everybody but I enjoyed it,for a couple reasons.First I liked the sciences(only classes I liked in school) and it was very interesting and fulfilling.Weather was always nice,lots of eye candy around a hospital.
There are other jobs that pay well-ultrasound,CT or MRI tech.A really interesting job is echocardiography.and there is a shortage of them.
Whatever,definitely don’t quit high school.
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