re: What’s the best trade job to get into?

Instrument tech/ Dcs programming

I retired as an electrician. It provided my family and I a pretty good life. If you are in Baton Rouge the union is 995. I was also in a union about half of that time. Union’s are useless. They take your money every month and you get nothing out of it

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If you're going to go the electrician route you might want to get some sort of instrumentation degree

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This may be a path I take after I finish my apprenticeship program.

If you are relatively young and can join an electrical union to pay for your training and then bounce I would consider it. The union will guarantee you work but it might be 3 hours away. If you can get your license and then get into residential work that would be great. Your work will slow down around thanksgiving and Christmas. However if you can learn how to save money those two months won’t hurt you.

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Union’s are useless

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100% useless. I worked all over the country non-union, even in heavily union areas like NY. I never had trouble finding a job, and did a wide variety of electrical work from residential new construction to heavy industrial. Unions keep people trapped in fear.

HVAC. Every civilized building on the planet has heat and air. Mechanical things break.

You are 5' tall, making running ductwork through attics cake for you. It also makes you valuable to an employer.

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U do butt stuff?

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Yes he does, you interested? We can make this happen

If young people would be willing to work hard and start from the bottom. Drilling rigs is the way. Half the year off. Starting around 75k a year. Great benefits. Most kids are puffs nowadays. A kid that can work hard a take an arse chewing will move up quickly outhere. We have a driller on my ship that is 32 years old..........190k a year! Just saying.

Coming from a welder turned to millwright, get into Millwright and maintenance. Better pay and less stressful on the body and much easier to do until an older age. There’s a reason most welders are young. It’s too physically demanding to do much past 50
Also, welding isn’t what makes it hard. Welding is rather easy. It’s the constant pressure to be as fast as possible and physically handling heavy steel for 50-65 hours a week. I worked as an ironworker for years before switching to millwright. I never had a job that averaged less than 56 hours a week

Only if you own your own business. And in hvac competition is wayy to much to overcome. Plumbing you can made 1/4 mil a yr if you work 7 days a wk