Rate trades on these following criteria from 1-10, and optionally provide which one you believe to have the strongest combined rating. Personal experience and anecdotes are welcomed.
- Possibility to start and expand a business in the trade
- Profitability in running a business in the trade
- Ability to work consistently until retirement
- Minimal bodily wear, no consistent likelihood for chronic or lifetime disability from daily work activities excluding accidents
- Unionization capacities
- A wide range of potential employment; jobs applicable as self-employed contractors, small business workers, or large company workers.
All responses are appreciated.
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Masonry
>Possibility to start and expand a business in the trade
8/10 Very possible, there is a big shortage of masons in the USA
>Profitability in running a business in the trade
6/10 Reasonably profitable if you can do high-end stonework or commercial work, as I said masons are in demand due to the shortage
>Ability to work consistently until retirement
2/10
>Minimal bodily wear, no consistent likelihood for chronic or lifetime disability from daily work activities excluding accidents
2/10
>Unionization capacities
5/10 Mostly depends on how much structural commercial masonry happens in your area, if you live in an earthquake zone it's not good for unionization because most stuff is done with reinforced concrete but if you're on the east coast it's probably better
>A wide range of potential employment; jobs applicable as self-employed contractors, small business workers, or large company workers.
6/10
Stone repair/restoration company owner.
>Possibility to start and expand a business in the trade
8/10 - To get started doing simple shit shouldn't cost much, maybe 10k + a truck. If you are in a big city, stone is becoming more and more popular every year, lots of work to do.
>Profitability in running a business in the trade
7/10 - Daily expenses are really low, but you will rarely get that overtime, time and a half hustle other trades do, its more of a slow and steady process. Once you have a second crew you make more, but inevitably that other crew will start their own company as it's just what happens, and you'll forever be chasing that process of trying to grow.
>Minimal bodily wear, no consistent likelihood for chronic or lifetime disability from daily work activities excluding accidents
6/10 If you work smart, its fine, lifting is never that intense, but you must wear kneepads, p100 masks etc. when working with chemicals and keep your body in good shape to run machines all day. Of course there is a lot of repetitive tasks which wear your body down, but nowhere near say, tile settters or brick layers.
>Unionization capacities
0/10 never have I seen this in my locale
>A wide range of potential employment; jobs applicable as self-employed contractors, small business workers, or large company workers.
2/10 There are basically two routes, for the sloppy folk who just want money, you do shitty commercial work with cheap labor and hustle hard. It's the easy path monetarily. The other route is a smaller crew doing only hyper luxury work, but you charge very high and it requires a lot of sacrifice to get to that point as opposed to just undercutting your competition. Going route one is really a hustle (when I started I maxed out at 9 workers before re-evaluating wtf I was doing) moved to a 2 man operation and pushed for the highest end possible clientelle and charged high rates. Guess which made me more money.
Tow truck driver/operator
>- Possibility to start and expand a business in the trade
10/10 poor people can't keep their cars operational so always subject to towing.
>- Profitability in running a business in the trade
8/10 hard to find decent employees due to false stereotypes.
>- Ability to work consistently until retirement
10/10 there's always more cars to tow than tow trucks.
>- Minimal bodily wear, no consistent likelihood for chronic or lifetime disability from daily work activities excluding accidents
8/10 often don't even get out of cab on repos until far away. Simple straps and chains. Main problem is violent public and cops don't do shit.
>- Unionization capacities
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>- A wide range of potential employment; jobs applicable as self-employed contractors, small business workers, or large company workers.
9/10 but large tow companies are rare.
Need a rollback to take both casualties in one trip to be on police rotation.
Biz is highly competitive.
Need storage lot, insurance etc etc not just a truck to do impounds and hold vehicles until get magistrate title on abandoned ones.
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Lowest end is one wheel-lift truck doing dealer repos but modern vehicles are most wisely towed on a rollback which can also haul sheds, steel stock and pipe and other cargos. Get a steel bed rollback because wrecks and scrap cards tear up aluminum and because you can easily weld a steel bed.
Violent public is rarely a problem outside of TV.
Industrial Maintenance
Possibility to start a business- 3/10
Profitability- 6/10
Ability to work- 7/10
Minimal body wear- 8/10
Unionization Capacities- 6/10
Potential employment types- 3/10
Industrial maintenance you really need to have a company that will hire you to be captive to them. There are some roving mechanics out in the field and I know guys who have their own companies and roam around fixing stuff, but it is a game of working for one place and getting good with one set of machines. Lots of preventative maintenance and watching what you do.
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tool & die maker
> Possibility to start and expand a business in the trade
1/10 absurd start up costs, need to buy many industrial machine. most clients are already captured
> Profitability in running a business in the trade
7/10 pretty decent if you somehow are the one that owns the shop
> Ability to work consistently until retirement
10/10 may shops have lifers who have been there for 30-40 years, lost of crusty dudes who have been at the same shop they did their apprenticeship at
> Minimal bodily wear, no consistent likelihood for chronic or lifetime disability from daily work activities excluding accidents
5/10 not as physical as most trades but the usual wear and tear that comes from standing on concrete and turning wrenches
>Unionization capacities
4/10 larger automotive shops and their oems tend to be unionized but majority of smaller shops are non-union
> A wide range of potential employment; jobs applicable as self-employed contractors, small business workers, or large company workers.
6/10 you will never not have a place to work if you have your ticket to the tune of you will be beating recruiters away with a stick. there are a few different specializations within the trade but just about everything serves either automotive/aerospace/medical
def has some cool shit but is kind of niche/abstract so kind of hard to bring up in conversation
I've been a journeyman rectum stretcher for about 4 years now.
It's pretty comfy