MSCOTTGARAND t1_iyal993 wrote
Industrial trades are a nightmare. Chasing work, ridiculous hours, yeah the pay is great and benefits are phenomenal but you're a slave to the trade and hope you live long enough to enjoy your pension and annuity. I left the boilermakers to take care of my kids but I worked a 5 month job that turned into 2 years. 13 hours a day, 7 days a week with only Thanksgiving and Christmas off. It was supposed to be 12s but the plant wanted an hour turnover to so they wouldn't lose a second of work.
Bywater t1_iyaykrs wrote
For sure. They only way to enjoy life in the trades is to hang your own shingle, or maybe find a co-op or partnership where everyone involved has the same mindset. I know so many guys in the trades who have the house, all the toys, the kids and never get to see any of it. They just end up physically and mentally broken and bitter by the time they hit 40.
PGids t1_iycjyq5 wrote
The outage heavy trades especially; I’ve been on a “seven day” turbine outage that lasted 63 days because we realized just about everything that could be cracked was cracked lol
I miss those paychecks and perdiem like a bastard but I can pull the insane hours where I’m at now and sleep in my own bed every night
SparseGhostC2C t1_iye0syi wrote
>benefits are phenomenal
If you can't get a day off to go to the doctor without 30 days written notice, those benefits are not phenomenal
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