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A friend of mine is a high-voltage electrician working on grid infrastructure. That job ain't going anywhere.
At this point in time trades seem like a pretty good bet. They pay well (in my country at least), you will always have work, and the skills you develop are very practical. Nice to be able to look at an issue with your own living space and comprehend what it will take to get it fixed. But that isn't a very hacker news response. I guess you would also develop these sorts of skills in eg. industrial engineering. There a…
Electrician. The world is going to spend the next several decades electrifying everything. Can’t outsource it, easy on the body vs other trades, good unions.
He was dropping me off at a mechanic shop for an automotive Boy Scout merit badge and I think he thought I was interested in becoming a mechanic. He told me before dropping me off that if I wanted a trade electrician was the highest paying and easiest on the body.
I would use https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm and https://www.bls.gov/ooh/highest-paying.htm as a starting point, and see if the kid is willing to pursue training to prepare him/her for that occupation. One thing that should be emphasized to children is the necessity to earn a decent livelihood with a job that leaves them enough time to pursue their other interests. It is important to do something remunerat…
> https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm #4 fastest growing is "Motion picture projectionists" and is expected to grow by 40% by 2031. Which looks to mean that it will grow from 1,620 to 2,268 jobs. https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes393021.htm
At this point in time trades seem like a pretty good bet. They pay well (in my country at least), you will always have work, and the skills you develop are very practical. Nice to be able to look at an issue with your own living space and comprehend what it will take to get it fixed. But that isn't a very hacker news response. I guess you would also develop these sorts of skills in eg. industrial engineering. There a…
Trades is a bit of a brutal profession on your body. Plus, there's a shortage at the moment but there's no guarantee that will continue.
The fields mostly impacted by recessions are those that never had a business in the first place - lots of tech has been built on "growth & engagement" freeloading off VC money with no actual businesses paying for that "engagement", and now the free money ran out.
At this point in time trades seem like a pretty good bet. They pay well (in my country at least), you will always have work, and the skills you develop are very practical. Nice to be able to look at an issue with your own living space and comprehend what it will take to get it fixed. But that isn't a very hacker news response. I guess you would also develop these sorts of skills in eg. industrial engineering. There a…
I live in Mexico now and from what I’ve heard from every person I know who owns a house or manages a rental it’s just as hard to find a reliable one here, so it’s not like immigration or AI will have a huge effect.
Don’t get into tree cutting. It’s extremely dangerous. General contracting can be very lucrative but is much broader.
With these trades you can eventually “hang your own shingle” and become a business owner.
As I was writing this I was thinking “fuck maybe I should become a plumber”
I would not consider any job that is mostly based on pattern recognition (like medicine). Enter coding only if you think you'll be top 1% because those will be the only people who will still be able to work. Any creative job should still be ok, provided you have a good understanding of AI.
Skilled trades pay well, and are harder to automate than jobs that can be done remotely. Plumbing for example, requires both knowledge, and hands on work. Plumbers won't be replaced until both AI and Robotics advance cosiderably.
I agree that plumbers will always be valuable, but the market we’re in is in no way efficient. People are not compensated by their value. The ideal rate to pay a plumber is as little as you can get away with, and that could just drop. Consider this — there’s more and more rental properties, and so less people who want to maintain their plumbing properly. There will likely be more “lowest bidder” work, and so the rate…