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Originally Posted by echo419
yeah plumbers, electricians and the like can make very good money. I have no problem paying to make sure I don't end up like Harvey Dent in the first Batman movie or be elbow deep in poop.
most of these guys make crap which is part of the problem. hard work that doesn't pay chit isn't going to attract top talent. I'm just glad I'm not in the field. got a thermostat in my office which happens to be the largest in the building. but that's just a condition of my location and position not status or anything of importance.
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I don't know about the US but here any trade that requires a license (Auto tech, electrician, plumber, gas fitter, etc) requires as much or more education and training as many white collar jobs. If you spend 4 years and tens of thousands of dollars working through an apprenticeship to obtain a journyman license why would you expect to make less than somebody in an office?
Now, if anybody can't be bothered to go through the process to get to that level and spend their whole working career as a helper then ya they are not going to make much. Sort of like the white collar guys that get a community collage diploma in philosophy or something and then complain they can't get an upper management job after working someplace for 2 years.