A good tradesman can make a very good living. I know a builder who paid his mortgage off in his early 30’s.
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School_Lunch@lemmy.world 8 hours agoThe trade-off is that finding a job that doesn’t require the large debt that comes with college means the job might not pay enough for a house, or if it does, its the kind of job where you don’t get much time to actually spend at said house.
WALLACE@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 hours ago
It’s also one of the last bastions of hard work paying off.
Except private equity is increasingly getting involved.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
They didn’t say “find a job”, they said “learn a profession” it’s a different thing. It’s learning a skilled trade. You have to learn a trade first, then you can find the high paying job. Your early 20s will be relatively low paying, but by the time you are 30, you should have multiple years of being a journeyman under your belt and should be making good money.
School_Lunch@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I understand. Skilled trade is still a job that one needs to find in order to get paid. You either need to go to trade school then find a job or find someone to take on an apprentice and learn on the job.
Those jobs might pay well after a while, but what I wouldn’t like is the reason those jobs pay well is usually because they require a lot of overtime. So yes you might be able to buy a house, but you won’t get to spend as much time actually living in it.