After a while I got tired of working low tier jobs, because of many reasons, mostly not being able to provide for the people I care about, so I'd like to ask your opinion on which career path to focus on the short term. I did some research and came up with this:Either getting certificates for installing solar panels, especially considering the current world's affairs, or getting trained to become a construction heavy machinery operator, especially diggers.On one hand, the former has an almost immediate return of investment and it's guaranteed it would get me a job almost immediately AND it would make so that it would become easier for me to get training for becoming an electrician later on in life if I choose that career path. On the other hand I always liked the idea of driving heavy machinery, and that would open up another career path, being infrastructure construction and tangentially civil engineering.Both courses as far as I know take about the same amount of training hours and both cost roughly the same. What do you think?Pic unrelated, I'm not Takumi. I'm just barely starting to learn how to drive (again)
>>34400020It doesn't matter. Neither one is what you are likely to be doing in 20 or even 10 years' time. The era of the lifetime job is long over. Today the typical person changes jobs 5 times and entire career paths at least once. Your first job is exactly that - your FIRST job, and not your last one.
>>34400228That wouldn't be my first job nor trade, neither the first time I completely changed career path. I wonder if you read my entire post. Please do if you haven't.
>>34400020Heavy equipment operator is super chill. You basically do nothing but sit around all day and operate the excavator for a few minutes per hour. I'd imagine the solar panel thing would be much more taxing and may not even pay that much more. That being said I wouldn't bother with any courses or certifications, just start applying for those kinds of jobs and get trained. You could also look into the union as well, depending on where you live they may offer pretty good pay and benefits, and union jobs reward seniority handsomely, so long term you could be set up for an early retirement.
>>34400643Thank you for the advice, but it doesn't apply to my case, as an eurofag I have to have certificates before I can even be considered for those jobs, it's just the way it works here. Employers here are very... Stingy when it comes to training up employees, especially people that never worked in that specific trade environment before.As for the rest: I'm more set on going for the solar panel business because it's in much higher demand than heavy machinery operators, and as far as I know it does pay better as a trade. It would also be easier for me to start my own business, which is something I thought about.
>>34400020Just become an electrician right now. Invest in good boots/shoes, gloves, socks, jeans.
>>34401351I'd still have to work to make money for a living, and it would take me about a year at a private school.
