What is the easiest trade to learn that pay well?

11 comments

1. Pipe fitting

2. So long as you’re focused on the trade you’re doing it’s all pretty standard.
   I’m an electrical engineer, plumber and corgi registered gas installer, gas installation is imo the best earner.

3. Electrician

4. I’ve been told Welding.

5. Welding can let you grow fast. I know a guy, started welding, went to school, got certificates, and wasn’t a dumbass. He was good enough that his bosses quickly had fixing others shitty welds. They sent him to learn to be an inspector.

   Now he’s management. He was only welding for about 2 years before he went into management. But he worked hard to do really good work. Now he makes about 180k per year.

6. Elevator and escalator technician. Not rocket science, pays well for reliable workers, is in demand with no reduction forecasted. As fast as they install them they seem to break down.

7. They pay well because they aren’t so easy anyone could do it, but it’s more about effort and willingness to do hard work than it is about learning smarts.

   Pipe fitting and welding are pretty good choices, but you’ll pay for it with the toll it takes on your body. HVAC is food too.

8. Software programming. It’s a trade skill that flies under the radar as one. Most of the jobs in web dev are paying 100k + once you’re past being a junior developer. And if you work at one if the big tech companies you start as a junior dev around 160k + and senior devs make 300k

9. Plumbing. It’s basically just lego with pipes and is a money printing machine. All u gotta know is that shit runs downhill.

10. Dude, if I read this question right, what you’re saying in code is *Lazy*. And if I got that right, any career requires *motivation* and *persistence*, and lacking that, you’re likely to be doing menial work forever.

11. Computer science