The amount of young brothers I drove past everyday chilling on the corners selling their cheap weed not looking into trade school is sad.
Damn, HVAC Technicians can make up to 100k ?!
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The amount of young brothers I drove past everyday chilling on the corners selling their cheap weed not looking into trade school is sad.
Mirin4rmfar
Superstar
Multiple ways to eat. I.T or a Trade. I am eating good in I T but shout out to the brehs eating good doing trades. A lot brehs just need good mentors.
You not seeing anywhere CLOSE to 100k if you a non union hvac tech
Keep telling my boy who go to Coyne, he let those cac instructors pump his head up.
Meanwhile Blake is a Union HVAC apprentice about to make $33 an hour as an apprentice and you gotta work at speedway to pay your tuition @Barnett114
Coyne got you too huh?
Yessuh! It’s a beautiful thing
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.
this is all 100% true... 
In the beginning. Trades have a harsh way off weeding out weak individuals which later on you’ll appreciate. Soon Ull be the guy giving orders to a young cat and he’ll be all “I ain’t nobody’s bytch!” 
If u last that long. Keep them certs up. Get your master license. Start a business. Buy a work van. Get the lions share.
Camoflauge
6ix
I as an HVAC tech have made over 100k every year in my career as a licensed professional (apprentices don’t make shyt for these small companies) but if you’re looking to get into the trade go UNION!
Now that I’ve opened my own company I’m hoping to make more then that and so far this year covid has not stopped a youngin
Edit: it’s not for battybois tho, it’s physically demanding and if you can’t deal with the sun during them hot summer days, then it ain’t for you....plus there is a lot of schooling and different licenses you have to acquire as an HVAC Tech (natural gas license)
but the money you can potentially make if you make the right connects is so worth the pain of learning the trade
Now that I’ve opened my own company I’m hoping to make more then that and so far this year covid has not stopped a youngin
Edit: it’s not for battybois tho, it’s physically demanding and if you can’t deal with the sun during them hot summer days, then it ain’t for you....plus there is a lot of schooling and different licenses you have to acquire as an HVAC Tech (natural gas license)
but the money you can potentially make if you make the right connects is so worth the pain of learning the trade
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Is the work as back breaking and sweaty/dirty like HVAC?
Yes.
It you do new construction yes.
Service yes less so tho.
Not a clean trade by any means.
staticshock
Veteran
I was an electrician in the military, but I teach now.
people shouldn’t talk down on some if they joined the military or chose the college route.
people shouldn’t talk down on some if they joined the military or chose the college route.
I tried to get in as a in house building engineer apprentice at university of Chicago. They was starting you out at $35 an hour, put you through classes at Triton College to get your stationary engineer license.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
Went through two interviews, did the background check, didn’t hear from them for months and out the blue I get the “we’ve decided to proceed with a different candidate
” email
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Get at me when you’re ready. I still have people at Abacus, Church services, and Santhoff
Canada Goose
Pooping on your head :umad:
Speaking of trades one trade that surprisingly is a trash career is Auto mechanic/Technician. One of my dream jobs was to work at an dealership doing work on cars but everyone I come across in that profession says its trash
Diesel mechanics seems to be a bit happier though.
If I was able to have a career it certainly would be blue collar work of some sort, working in offices wearing suits
Give me some overalls and a toolbox
Diesel mechanics seems to be a bit happier though.
If I was able to have a career it certainly would be blue collar work of some sort, working in offices wearing suits
Give me some overalls and a toolboxIt's amazing how these threads never fail to discuss the monetary reward, but always fail to detail the schooling, certification, and paths.
the artist known az
Hail the victors
If I could go back in time