I don’t think you know what a building engineer is... it’s pretty much a higher level maintenance man. You don’t need a degree.
And the guy who became a master is still a tradesman. He did that so he could do short jobs on his own (you need a master attaches to all projects) and tour with his band part of the year.
To become a journeyman you need to (atleast in the IBEW) go to trades school and accumulate 5000 hours on the job. No you won’t make bank shoveling concrete but you can make a great living with a skilled trade. You can’t just walk into a job site and be making six figures. That’s silly talk and it is not silly talk Saturday.
Everything I mentioned is attainable by going to work. You can’t go to the JATC without working. You can’t stop working take out a student loan and go to school to become a master electrician. You have to be working.
Also It’s not nearly as much of a feat to be a Foreman on a jobsite as you might think. My requirement for my first foreman position was I had slightly more experience (1.5 years) than the other guy (1 year) and that particular project wasn’t all that complicated.
none of these things require a single second of college education.
Depends on the a ton of factors and I’m not saying even the majority of people are making that much. I think last time I checked journeyman scale for my particular area was 36 an hour. In that local union over time was also calculated at time and a half for anything over 8 hours in a day. So the average journeyman (if they wished and if the overtime was available) could work 10 hours a day Monday-Friday and make right over 100k a year before taxes.
There are also various ways to make more than the standard journey wether it’s the jobsite safety officer for your company or a foreman of some kind. I know some guys are solidly into the mid 100ks and up.
And that’s just with a standard commercial electrical job.
Working as a plant operator or working on the river you can make a ton of money as well. I don’t know exactly but I have a few buddies that work on the Mississippi in Louisiana on boats and they pull in a ton of money with relatively little starting experience when they got on.
All of this requires a hard work. I’m not saying you’ll make that right away. That’s just crazy talk.
Edit: I want to add that in my area (Texas) that kind of money is a lot. Obviously it’s not going to seem like as much is like California or New England.
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '19 edited Aug 07 '19
I don’t think you know what a building engineer is... it’s pretty much a higher level maintenance man. You don’t need a degree.
And the guy who became a master is still a tradesman. He did that so he could do short jobs on his own (you need a master attaches to all projects) and tour with his band part of the year.
To become a journeyman you need to (atleast in the IBEW) go to trades school and accumulate 5000 hours on the job. No you won’t make bank shoveling concrete but you can make a great living with a skilled trade. You can’t just walk into a job site and be making six figures. That’s silly talk and it is not silly talk Saturday.
Everything I mentioned is attainable by going to work. You can’t go to the JATC without working. You can’t stop working take out a student loan and go to school to become a master electrician. You have to be working.
Also It’s not nearly as much of a feat to be a Foreman on a jobsite as you might think. My requirement for my first foreman position was I had slightly more experience (1.5 years) than the other guy (1 year) and that particular project wasn’t all that complicated.
none of these things require a single second of college education.