There was a sign saying work as a carpenter and text "work" to some phone number. So, some guy from some union called and left a message to be an apprentice. But I don't want to work more than six months, I just want some training and do my own thing. Do they have you signing some contract with the unions? Because if not for the unions I'd sign up, because I live in an at will state.
>Do they have you signing some contract with the unions?
The unions? As in the AFL-CIO unions? No, carpenters are not affiliated.
I wish I could just stand on the corner like the illegals do.
>I wish I could just stand on the corner like the illegals do.
nothing stopping you
They are moron.
lol wtf? it takes longer than 6 months to learn to be a carpenter you moron
Well, learn to every last fricking thing on earth... but yea, I think to that's the attitude most of my would be superiors would have. So I guess I'll have to find that corner and learn a bit of Spanish. Then do YouTube for stuff I miss.
Carpentry is a lot more complex than you seem to make it. Any guy with two thumbs can learn to frame a wall in 15 minutes, but to understand how loads work in a truss system, it takes years of experience to figure out all the finer details.
carpenters aren't engineers.
This is why trusses are an item you can just buy. Specialty shops have skilled and experienced people that can draw up trusses to order quickly, which is difficult to do when you're just starting out.
You can learn truss math in a week if you have mathematical competency to join with mechanical and spatial aptitude. Training the intuition needed to spec it out quickly takes a lot longer.
>week
prolly more like a couple hours
none of it is complicated
its just some equations you plug your values into or software nowadays
If you get a crew of 4 or 5 carpenters only one actually has a faint idea of forces and he’ll just tell the other ones ‘that part needs 6 boards spaced such and such’ and draw it on a piece of paper.
You can learn perfectly well to be one of those carpenters in 6 months, cutting stuff to size and keeping it level without falling off the ladder
>carpenter
>6 months experience
This dude is going to get a LOT of callbacks from unhappy customers.
I bet your drywall looks like shit. You probably can't even afford the tools necessary. Just find some other job, go flip burgers or something.