How much do you know about creating meme coins?
Let me know which union that is and I can probably give you a pretty precise answer. But to be honest I see guys jumping into trades from all areas. My apprentice now was a police officer for 10 years prior. Teachers seems to be the most common
Gut out an apprenticeship for 5 years and become a service guy in a trade. You won't be rich but you'll have a total comp. package worth 140-150k /yr with a pension. That's the best I can do boss! And no you wont have to work hard at all being a service guy generally. Test backflows(plumbers or sprinklerfitters) if you want it stupid easy.
You can't beat that. For me the guaranteed pension vs the 401k is the main seller for me. We have a pension worth basically 110$/month per pension credit(which is BS and hasn't changed in 10 years). 1 pension credit =1600hr per year(we do get to rollover hours over 1600)plus a supplemental which is 8/hr contributed by our employer dumped into an investment fund. So roughly another 16k yearly unmatched into an investment. That's not killing it but good enough for me. We get a 3$ an hour raise every April the next three years that puts at us around 60/hr on check. Free prescriptions and some other things. Its a decent middle class life. 150/daily per diem if you want to travel. I know people who certainly do better but I'm glad I found it. Elevator guys have a 20 and out full pension worth like 4k monthly plus a supplemental. Those dudes make like 70/hr in Iowa alone.
You're not wrong. Certain things will never be outsourced or replaced by AI. If anything technology just makes our job easier, never obsolete
I'm not a plumber but I'm guessing they'd say that's even better. Cuts the $hit out of their job right? People still need running water for other purposes. And honestly most of the plumbers I run into only deal with new installs on buildings so they don't deal with a whole lot of sanitary sewer anyway. I think that's a major misconception about plumbing. Same with HVAC. The tinners(sheet metal workers) I deal with aren't working on your heater or AC. They simply run duct work. Iowa is a solid union state with very little non-union competition. We usually get what we ask for.
Yeah, someone making 140-150k is pretty wealthy unless you're living in like LA or NYC. Not FU money, but that's a really nice living.
While it probably is 90-100k on check in 40 hours weeks the other 50k is back loaded which is a lot of times hard for younger people to comprehend. I suppose thats anyplace though.
