Damn, HVAC Technicians can make up to 100k ?!
- Thread starter Carlton Banks
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Maybe the ones that work for a corporation like Four Seasons, but I never met an HVAC that worked for a residential small business making that much.
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tried to tell y’all years ago hvac the wave
No it’s not
Looks hard
Get in trades, brehs. Hard, sweaty work, but it’s pretty rewarding. We need a national movement to get more black men into trades
Sunalmighty
Superstar
A trade in many instances >>> a degree.
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC tech's....
Plumbers, electricians, HVAC tech's....
FLYINHAWAIIAN
Vegan For a Reason
I just told my stepdaddy last night that if i don't last at Amazon i might try a trade.
Only thing is i aint got no money for all that.
(Im in htown too)
Thing is with hvac is you learn other trades by default. Sheet metal, plumbing, electrician, carpentry, auto mechanic etc... experience so you can make what you want with it.
And you’re just thinking comfort cooling which is a drop in a bucket for this industry
Now apply this to every type of food processing facility, warehouse, kitchen, grocery stores, every type of process manufacturing where the machinery needs cooling to work, hospitals, refrigerated semi trucks carrying the food, every major server room, electrical power houses, etc... This shyt is everywhere and when you’re dealing with literally millions in product and/or equipment that can’t go down for any extended period...
And you’re just thinking comfort cooling which is a drop in a bucket for this industry
Now apply this to every type of food processing facility, warehouse, kitchen, grocery stores, every type of process manufacturing where the machinery needs cooling to work, hospitals, refrigerated semi trucks carrying the food, every major server room, electrical power houses, etc... This shyt is everywhere and when you’re dealing with literally millions in product and/or equipment that can’t go down for any extended period...
I’m making 75/hr (ot) right now
I’m commercial hvac/r trade tho.
I’ve been told you nikkas.
I turn down side jobs and OT, hell tomorrow I could make over 100/hr if I work. I’m on call for the whole weekend, 24 hours a day and if I get a call my paid time starts from the second I get that call to when I get home.
That’s plus 13/hr in my 401k ( employer contributed) and a healthy pension
They stopped testing for weed. I get a work truck, a cell phone and a credit card. Don’t pay for any gas or tolls and I make all my runs in my truck. Haven’t put 500 miles on my car(s) this year.
You can lead a nikka to water but can’t make em drink. Literally no one I have tried to put on has applied.
Any IT nikkas here can tell you, look at their bill when they have to call us about their cooling being down in server rooms
I’m thinking about going this route. However, there is this Apprenticeship program in VA where I have to complete college level courses for up to two to nine week sessions. Tuition and books cost are paid by the program. While in and completed the courses/trade of choice you get all sick leave, annual leave, federal holidays, health insurance, life insurance, and a retirement plan.
Trades they offered are Boilermaker, Electrician, Electronics Mechanic, Fabric Worker, Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic, Insulator, Machinist, Marine Machinery Mechanic, Rigger, Metals Inspector, Painter, Pipefitter, Shipwright,
Welder, etc. Gotta make the move to VA if I want to get in.
I’m thinking about going this route. However, there is this Apprenticeship program in VA where I have to complete college level courses for up to two to nine week sessions. Tuition and books cost are paid by the program. While in and completed the courses/trade of choice you get all sick leave, annual leave, federal holidays, health insurance, life insurance, and a retirement plan.
Trades they offered are Boilermaker, Electrician, Electronics Mechanic, Fabric Worker, Heavy Mobile Equipment Mechanic, Insulator, Machinist, Marine Machinery Mechanic, Rigger, Metals Inspector, Painter, Pipefitter, Shipwright,
Welder, etc. Gotta make the move to VA if I want to get in.
The BasedFather
Task Force
HVAC Tech here and this shyt is hard work man. Bloody hands from getting cut all day, dirty clothes, sweaty, hurt knees and back. Crawling into attics and under houses. Lifting furnaces up flights of stairs ain’t no joke breh.
Went to school for 10 months just to get out and make $15 an hour. These places want you to already have your own tools and you’ll be someone’s bytch aka apprentice for a while.
Being on call and working from sun up to sun down and 6 and even 7 days a week ain’t no fun breh.
Out in the blazing heat or in the freezing cold on top of rooftops. Don’t be afraid to climb up a ladder while it’s windy either.
A lot of these guys cycle through companies and a lot of these places don’t give benefits and start you off at low pay until you’ve put years in to get to that level.
Getting laid off because of slow seasons as well and work slowing.
shyt is back breaking work and a bytch. Got my certs tho and that opens up a lot of doors.
Went to school for 10 months just to get out and make $15 an hour. These places want you to already have your own tools and you’ll be someone’s bytch aka apprentice for a while.
Being on call and working from sun up to sun down and 6 and even 7 days a week ain’t no fun breh.
Out in the blazing heat or in the freezing cold on top of rooftops. Don’t be afraid to climb up a ladder while it’s windy either.
A lot of these guys cycle through companies and a lot of these places don’t give benefits and start you off at low pay until you’ve put years in to get to that level.
Getting laid off because of slow seasons as well and work slowing.
shyt is back breaking work and a bytch. Got my certs tho and that opens up a lot of doors.
Feels really good to be an electrician.
Get paid well and I got a skill you can't fire.
And people always going to need electricity.
You would be a complete bum without it.
Get paid well and I got a skill you can't fire.
And people always going to need electricity.
You would be a complete bum without it.
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onthereal
All Star
They are super skilled and necessary for all corporations to have on speed dial
WaveWhisperer
Stainless Steel
"You must be dumb if you choose to get a trade or enlist instead of taking out a student and attending college for a "career" that won't be there once you're done with school."
Meanwhile military gang eating. So are trade brehs.
Scott Larock
Its hard leaving thecoli but I gotta find a way...
HVAC Tech here and this shyt is hard work man. Bloody hands from getting cut all day, dirty clothes, sweaty, hurt knees and back. Crawling into attics and under houses. Lifting furnaces up flights of stairs ain’t no joke breh.
Went to school for 10 months just to get out and make $15 an hour. These places want you to already have your own tools and you’ll be someone’s bytch aka apprentice for a while.
Being on call and working from sun up to sun down and 6 and even 7 days a week ain’t no fun breh.
Out in the blazing heat or in the freezing cold on top of rooftops. Don’t be afraid to climb up a ladder while it’s windy either.
A lot of these guys cycle through companies and a lot of these places don’t give benefits and start you off at low pay until you’ve put years in to get to that level.
Getting laid off because of slow seasons as well and work slowing.
shyt is back breaking work and a bytch. Got my certs tho and that opens up a lot of doors.
location though.
Alot of these apartment building how they have the set up is everything is pretty much plug and play, homes are alot harder.
My mom ac broke and literally to put in a clip to fix it was 225.
for like 10 minutes of work.
In Florida YOU WILL EAT.
The cat I’m working with today has been making over 200k a year just from job ( not including side jobs ) the last decade 
he work hella OT and is an in house contractor for a major university/hospital
Just my contractor alone got people working full time as outside contractors in sprint, rush university, bp refrinery, university of Chicago, prescence hospitals, etc... all cashing out...
And the goat shyt about working as an outside contractor is that we don’t have to follow any company employee rules. Show up and leave when we want to. As long as you’re getting shyt done, fixing shyt and keeping them going you don’t have to worry about shyt. I worked maybe 4 hours yesterday and got paid 10
he work hella OT and is an in house contractor for a major university/hospital
Just my contractor alone got people working full time as outside contractors in sprint, rush university, bp refrinery, university of Chicago, prescence hospitals, etc... all cashing out...
And the goat shyt about working as an outside contractor is that we don’t have to follow any company employee rules. Show up and leave when we want to. As long as you’re getting shyt done, fixing shyt and keeping them going you don’t have to worry about shyt. I worked maybe 4 hours yesterday and got paid 10