Is getting into the trades with no experience or connections as easy as redditors say it is?
Is getting into the trades with no experience or connections as easy as redditors say it is?
Is getting into the trades with no experience or connections as easy as redditors say it is?
It is, but you're going to have a carrot dangled in front of you and want to kys.
In Australia, yeah its piss easy. Theres a labour shortage. In most cases you will be treated like a dog and yelled at for 3 years. You will see all the qualified guys with their flash 4wd boats and houses and thats the carrot. Atleast here in aus. Its a right of passage to be treated like shit as an apprentice. Pushing through that without chucking the shits is how you earn your place.
What would it be like if you already had a bunch of experience but for some odd reason needed to start as an apprentice?
Not OP but my situation is that I am Australian yet moved to the USA when I was in my early 20s and got started in construction, now I'm 29 and have been working as a mason here for almost 6 years and I want to move home but I'm worried I'll have to start at the bottom again in Australia. Hoping I would be able to show the skills and get paid as much as a fully qualified guy but still do an apprenticeship
You'll be fine, I don't see any issue in getting work in a major city as a stone mason. A lot of sand stone walls and shit in sydney
>labor shortage
>treat new guys like shit
huh that can't possibly be making things worse
Anyone who can't hack it is shit anyhow. This just weeds them out faster.
dude Ive seen motherfrickers with "20 years experience" not know how to wire a fricking switch leg, anyone who cant deal with the older guys busting your balls a bit deserves it motherfrickers like that really have no business doing any work where people live or work. Its not like an office job where if you frick up its hardly noticeable because your replaceable anyway if someone cant do their job correctly thats at least hundreds to thousands in damage
being treated like a dog is not the same as being reprimanded for doing a bad job. if you think purposely making someone's life living hell is a good way to get people to want to work i don't know what to tell you.
>your replaceable anyway
Unlike tradies, amirite?
10 months as a machinery apprentice and I can see the buttholes driving people away. I can deal with that, but what grinds my gears is the combination of terrible teacher AND butthole. They may know a lot, but they don't know how to teach for shit. All of what I've learned is by trial and error, looking things up myself and fixing frickups Ive done. This could go so much faster.
What do i do bros i dont know what to do with my life this board seems like the only thing that could help me. Thanks
there are a lot of childish morons in the trades and for manual labor on drilling rigs. If you like moronation its for you, otherwise look to something like aerospace. There are even a paid apprenticeships for non-morons at some US national labs were they train you to be a machinist because they need the best to help manufacture one of a kind experiments. In college I worked in the physics department during the summer. Although I took a lot of classes in the physics building I had no idea they had a massive machine shop on the first floor with about 15 full time professional machinists working to build experiments for physics professors (who were part of large team from multiple universities).
https://engineering.llnl.gov/careers/apprenticeships
that sounds like a fun job actually, machining for R&D type stuff
Trades are a meme, your back and knees will be fricked by the time you are 40. Get an easy woman office 'job'
I started doing the sheet metal side of HVAC no experience in anything relevant. Started at 15$ (Midwest US) and 2 years later was at 23$ and was just starting to get put on small projects myself. I did work in a town that was very rapidly expanding though.
It depends on the trade. If you go into common trades, yes still easy but you'll be treated like shit for a while. I'm that marble anon, started as an apprentice never working on messy job sites and eventually started my own company. Now I'm pretty much set for life without doing the whole certification and waiting game, had my own company after 5 years of learning.
marbleanon, I think I remember reading your posts a while ago. I forget did you just walk in and ask to start doing the work?
I found it difficult to break into welding, just recently joined the union. From warehouse forklift driver -> union was about 5 years. Doesn't matter anyway because the work is too tough and I'm leaving for a more normal job. The travel and long hours and hard work can be cool if you're in your early 20s. My time would have been better spent getting a pencil pusher degree IMO