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Posted on 3/23/26 at 8:56 am to Ace Midnight
My 12 year old son only wants to be a carpenter. He sees how awful my white collar work is and is intent on working with his hands.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:00 am to biglego
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My 12 year old son only wants to be a carpenter. He sees how awful my white collar work is and is intent on working with his hands.
Sounds like a smart kid .
I have zero talent for working with my hands or for building shite.. yet i also hated my corporate America white-collar life, most of the time.. guess that explains why im semi-early-retired, maybe i just dont like w*rk .
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:03 am to fareplay
Pushing my boys towards military careers as both want to fly.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:04 am to BK Lounge
If you’re semi retired and not that old, then you’ve already won at life.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:06 am to biglego
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My 12 year old son only wants to be a carpenter. He sees how awful my white collar work is and is intent on working with his hands.
your son will find out real quick how great you actually had it.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:11 am to biglego
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If you’re semi retired and not that old, then you’ve already won at life.
I guess youre not wrong.. but tbh , i always wanted to be one of those people who ‘did what they love’ for work.. i know those people exist, even if theyre kinda rare .. maybe 15-20% of the people i know actually love their work .. i think if i was one of those people, id probably never feel the need to retire, and just work into old age .
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:13 am to fareplay
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For context, I work and am aware of some of the new ai tools. Combined with block laying off 40% of tech jobs
My daughter (pics on file) lives in NYC. The techs all have great paying jobs. The marketing people are getting massacred. Financial people are all the most awful people in the world.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:14 am to lsu777
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your son will find out real quick how great you actually had it.
I agree, it’s a romantic notion to work with his hands every day as he enjoys the lifestyle afforded by my job. It’s why my wife and I have to stay on him about his grades. “I don’t need to know this stuff just to be a carpenter.” He’s only 12 so we’ll see.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:16 am to LemmyLives
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The people that sell services and shite to married women that play tennis and "lunch" make a fortune. $40k a MONTH gross at a Pilates studio in my neighborhood, for instance. Almost no expenses after buildout (which isn't much.)
you might want to check the math on the percentage of gyms and related industry like pilates studio actually survive 5 years.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:17 am to biglego
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I agree, it’s a romantic notion to work with his hands every day as he enjoys the lifestyle afforded by my job. It’s why my wife and I have to stay on him about his grades. “I don’t need to know this stuff just to be a carpenter.” He’s only 12 so we’ll see.
then you need to go show him where a carpenter actually lives and what that life style is actually like. bring him to a housing construction site in late july and he will change his mind.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:19 am to pickle311
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What welders are making $200k? My kid is certified and wanted to go that route for a bit. Every salary report we can find doesn’t show anything close to that.
What I told him was that I grew up dirt poor. My best friends dad was a legit welder back then. Everyone knew his name in that world. They lived across the street from us, so that tells you what really good welders make if they lived right by our poor asses.
what that guy didnt tell you was those guys are working 7/12 shift on turnaround and chasing the per diem money. sure there are welders that make 200k but they literally are on the road 70%+ of the time. Usually minimal benefits because they are bouncing company to company. Its a dog shite life
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:21 am to biglego
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I agree, it’s a romantic notion to work with his hands every day as he enjoys the lifestyle afforded by my job.
Yea, the trades are heavily romanticized. Sure, you can make a good living, but mostly when you own the business.
And any career where you depend on your physical ability can be lost at any time as your body breaks down and you get older.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:25 am to Bjorn Cyborg
You also deal with unreliable degenerates everyday as your coworkers.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 9:40 am to NIH
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You also deal with unreliable degenerates everyday as your coworkers.
Or as your employees if you become the business owner.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 1:19 pm to lsu777
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sounds like you are ignorant and refuse to admit it.
A tech can inspect, diagnose, and repair issues of vibrating equipment. That's pretty much their job.
Our engineers here are pretty much only project managers. We hire outside firms for the design work.
Of course it is good to have educated, competent, and experienced engineers to oversee every phase of a $140M 20 month project. But will that always be necessary? Could we train other positions to eventually lead projects?
Maybe?
This post was edited on 3/23/26 at 1:35 pm
Posted on 3/23/26 at 1:20 pm to saltybulldog
Ever heard of Baymax Baw.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 1:25 pm to i am dan
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A tech can inspect and diagnose issues of vibrating equipment.
I know they can but there is a lot of other things they cant do
Posted on 3/23/26 at 2:05 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
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You also deal with unreliable degenerates everyday as your coworkers.
Or as your employees if you become the business owner.
As a guy that employees a bunch of non skilled labor and some management that manages them, absolutely this.
I tell people all the time, in fact I did yesterday to a Nurse Aesthesis friend in town, that I tell everyone one of the main reasons to go to college is to get a job in a field where your colleagues and employees all have college degrees.
That's not a requirement to be a good person, not be a shithead, or anything of the sort. But working in a professional environment with college educated professionals, is generally a lot better than working in something like the trades or generally unskilled/ uncertified labor.
Posted on 3/23/26 at 2:17 pm to fareplay
Not routing my children to anything.
If they don't make the decision for themselves they will long term resent me, win or lose.
They have my full support along the way.
If they don't make the decision for themselves they will long term resent me, win or lose.
They have my full support along the way.
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