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If you could do it all over again, would you have gone to a trade school? (lemmy.world)
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I enjoyed college and was fortunate enough to enjoy a good white collar career. But if I could do it all over again, I would have learned how to become a licensed electrician, plumber, etc.

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[-] Paragone@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I'd do electrician, if I could go back:

good working-conditions, if you're consistently careful, you won't get flung from the top of a ladder by a jolt, nice technical work.

( spoken with different tradespeople while working with 'em on different construction sites,

hence knowing-about the electricians being flung from ladders: he said it's common-enough to affect their statistical life-span )

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