Poll of the Day > For those of you in trade jobs, do you like them?

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I've been thinking of going for a trade job because I'm getting sick of the service industry, but not sure what I want to do. I was thinking maybe auto mechanic or welding but I wanna look into others and see if there is any others in not thinking of that might be a good one to do.

Would any of you mind telling about your trade jobs?

I don't personally. I make the same currently as my friends that are electricians. I'm currently working as a network technician.

They're great for real opportunity to make money. They're great if you get into a union so you actually get protections. They are not great on your body. There are still frustrating elements with co-workers and clients like the service industry. Those are the impressions I get.

I'm not in the trades but work with those who are.

While it pays well, currently in my area there's a shortage of tradesmen and a huge excess of apprentices. ie not enough companies run apprenticeship programs to meet demands. Which makes it much harder to get into and has negative effects on the industry.

My understanding is that's the case across Canada. I'm not sure if the US is in a similar spot.

Blightzkrieg posted...

I'm not in the trades but work with those who are.

While it pays well, currently in my area there's a shortage of tradesmen and a huge excess of apprentices. ie not enough companies run apprenticeship programs to meet demands. Which makes it much harder to get into and has negative effects on the industry.

My understanding is that's the case across Canada. I'm not sure if the US is in a similar spot.

sometimes I think this shit is basically unavoidable with the 'upside down pyramid' of population age.

I wish I had gone into a trade. I did I.T. stuff then realized most of its been automated by a.i. and cloud. Il be obsolete by the time I'm 45 and il just end up having to work some random ass job to get by

I've been thinking about going to trade school. I make decent money but I'm just in middle management and feel kinda worthless honestly. I think I'd feel better about myself doing something with my hands and might even make more money depending on the trade.

I think the ultimate goal with learning a trade should be to start your own company and work for yourself though

I'm a produce manager. It's a trade job and I like it.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I'm a produce manager. It's a trade job and I like it.

That sounds like retail to me. Managing the produce department is still retail.

Yeah bot to be a jerk but I wouldn't really call that a trade job

Muscles posted...

That sounds like retail to me. Managing the produce department is still retail.

Nope. I don't stand around waiting to help a person pick out groceries. I worked a skilled trade ensuring the department is ready for people to shop in. Yes, I provide customer service as needed but it's not my principle focus.

OhhhJa posted...

Yeah bot to be a jerk but I wouldn't really call that a trade job

Nope
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omg so glad I logged in today

today is a blessed day

SunWuKung420 posted...

Nope. I don't stand around waiting to help a person pick out groceries. I worked a skilled trade ensuring the department is ready for people to shop in. Yes, I provide customer service as needed but it's not my principle focus.

Nope
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You don't help someone if they ask you?

SunWuKung420 posted...

Nope. I don't stand around waiting to help a person pick out groceries. I worked a skilled trade ensuring the department is ready for people to shop in. Yes, I provide customer service as needed but it's not my principle focus.

Nope
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Going by the technical definition which describes anything that isn't a college educated job as a trade job yeah... but nobody would call it that. You might as well call picking orders in a warehouse as a trade job lmao

Hoo boy. Literally trying to prove a point using a Google AI answer. Now there's something you don't see every day.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Nope. I don't stand around waiting to help a person pick out groceries. I worked a skilled trade ensuring the department is ready for people to shop in. Yes, I provide customer service as needed but it's not my principle focus.

Nope
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All youve done is prove you dont know what trade means in this context. Weird flex.

Yayyyyyy. Sunny is back for a few days!

Didn't Sunny work at a bar making dodgy pizzas or some shit?

SunWuKung420 posted...

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lmao

I'm a deli clerk but I would not call that a trade job. I would call it masochism/living hell/public toilet trash can job. You don't have to learn or know any "trade" going into it, you learn it in a week or two. Managers have it just as easy and they delude themselves into thinking you have to be a chosen one to be one of them. If they're a narcissist then that means someone who reminds them of themselves the most.

My manager thinks I am not cut out to be manager myself, and that's fair, but if you ask me any random person could come in and do it, and I don't think she's particularly bright herself. Anyway, she generally only ever promotes teenage girls who have a mental breakdown over something small and walk out (20 out of 20 managers have all been women). Another 6 years will surely get me a promotion!

I made connections as a full stack software engineer at my startup who thought highly of me that will get me my foot in the door in an IT position soon. Not competent enough to stock a floor though, gotta get a teenage girl for that.

ReturnOfFa posted...

You don't help someone if they ask you?

SunWuKung420 posted...

Yes, I provide customer service as needed but it's not my principle focus.

I also drive a fork lift and operate power jacks.

Yellow posted...

I'm a deli clerk but I would not call that a trade job. I would call it masochism/living hell/public toilet trash can job. You don't have to learn or know any "trade" going into it, you learn it in a week or two. Managers have it just as easy and they delude themselves into thinking you have to be a chosen one to be one of them. If they're a narcissist then that means someone who reminds them of themselves the most.

My manager thinks I am not cut out to be manager myself, and that's fair, but if you ask me any random person could come in and do it, and I don't think she's particularly bright herself. Anyway, she generally only ever promotes teenage girls who have a mental breakdown over something small and walk out (20 out of 20 managers have all been women). Another 6 years will surely get me a promotion!

I made connections as a full stack software engineer at my startup who thought highly of me that will get me my foot in the door in an IT position soon. Not competent enough to stock a floor though, gotta get a teenage girl for that.

Being in management is more about being pleasant to work with than skilled.

Any dumbfuck can be a manager but if they're a pain in the boss's ass they won't keep the job.

i had the creepiest manager for delivery
would tell me not to talk to co workers doing nothing
would ask me to show him tips
would tell me I wasn't coming back fast enough, tell me i'm not parking in the right spots
just general sleezieness, people are so desperate blech

Yellow posted...

-snip-

The only teenagers that work in my company are typically only customer service or online order shoppers. They aren't allowed to use a box cutter or knife, nevermind machinery. I highly doubt you work in a deli department staffed by teenagers.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I also drive a fork lift and operate power jacks.

That's nice, I did that at a lumberyard too and was not a trade worker.

I also asked you if you'd help people if they asked.

Hey @Muscles are you aiming to be a produce manager?

Blightzkrieg posted...

Being in management is more about being pleasant to work with than skilled

In my experience, the toughest part about being a manager is that you're the one that's responsible for everything including shit that is out of your control many times. If you have a good team, it's easy, but if you have people who want to start drama or don't want to do their job it becomes kind of a nightmare trying to make sure you have a fair/mature environment for everyone.

A lot of people aren't cut out for management because they have the emotional intelligence of a teenager. But then again, I've seen managers get away with acting like toddlers as well

ReturnOfFa posted...

That's nice, I did that at a lumberyard too and was not a trade worker.

I also asked you if you'd help people if they asked.

Helping people if they ask is literally helping people as needed. I even possess the skill to notice when it appears someone is having difficulty locating an item and I'll offer to help because I'm great at my trade job.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Helping people if they ask is literally helping people as needed. I even possess the skill to notice when it appears someone is having difficulty locating an item and I'll offer to help because I'm great at my trade job.

customer service

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ReturnOfFa posted...

customer service

Nope

SunWuKung420 posted...

Nope

did you apprentice as a Produce Manager? can you get your Red Seal?

I thought those were pretty easy questions!

ReturnOfFa posted...

Hey @Muscles are you aiming to be a produce manager?

Hell no, I'm never doing retail again... I'm sorry retail trade.

SunWuKung420 posted...

I also drive a fork lift and operate power jacks.

Amazing. You do the same work as stoned 20s adults that are putting minimum effort in working at a warehouse job.

Sunny works at Trader Joe's

OhhhJa posted...

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I kept reading it as "My sense of humor your feelings" 'cause I didn't see the sideway words

If you're considering going into the trades, we have a guy named Sunny here that will give you some grand advice.

I like how sunny's definition of a trade job is:

-Kinda deal with customers
-Drive a fork lift
-Operate a jacklift

Because that's also being just a regular factory worker, which is explicitly not a trade job.

shadowsword87 posted...

I like how sunny's definition of a trade job is:

-Kinda deal with customers
-Drive a fork lift
-Operate a jacklift

Because that's also being just a regular factory worker, which is explicitly not a trade job.

Factory work is a trade job.

Blightzkrieg posted...

Sunny works at Trader Joe's

Never. They aren't union.

ReturnOfFa posted...

did you apprentice as a Produce Manager?

Yes, for a year.

ReturnOfFa posted...

can you get your Red Seal?

I'm not in Canada and it's a shame that so much produce in the US comes from Canada and yet working within the produce industry isn't considered a red seal trade considering without produce workers people don't eat.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Factory work is a trade job.

It is not. I have worked in multiple factories of multiple types, nobody has once claimed that it is a trade job. Don't speak for me.
There are trade jobs in a factory, but by default, it is not a trade job.

Blue collar work, yes, but that's mostly what I hear after I joined the office.

SunWuKung420 posted...

Yes, for a year.

Assistant to the Assistant Manager confirmed.

shadowsword87 posted...

It is not. I have worked in multiple factories of multiple types, nobody has once claimed that it is a trade job. Don't speak for me.
There are trade jobs in a factory, but by default, it is not a trade job.

Blue collar work, yes, but that's mostly what I hear after I joined the office.

I'm sorry but you're wrong. Even working in janitorial jobs is a trade job. It's skilled labor. Yes, your trash collectors are trade workers.

By that definition every job is a trade job?

Also, I work with a teenage girl, sometimes multiple, they didn't even train her, they just threw her at us and day one she was using sharp knives. Yes, they really suck.

Yellow posted...

By that definition every job is a trade job?

Nope. Answering a phone is not a trade skill.

Yellow posted...

Also, I work with a teenage girl, sometimes multiple, they didn't even train her, they just threw her at us and day one she was using sharp knives. Yes, they really suck.

What country to you work in? I can't even hand a minor a box cutter nevermind training them to use a deli slicer.

SunWuKung420 posted...

What country to you work in? I can't even hand a minor a box cutter.

US and I imagine that's the most lax first world one when it comes to giving kids knives

Yellow posted...

US and I imagine that's the most lax first world one when it comes to giving kids knives

I don't believe you at all. I can't give a minor a knife, they can't use the cardboard bailer or the trash compactor. Unless you're working for some small local market.

Especially given your comment as if the US hands out weapons to people which would never happen.