Work
Everything filed under work, listed in full rather than as a feed.
Articles
- What an apprentice actually does in the first year on a crew
Very little of it is the trade. The first year is spent proving you can be relied on, and the people who understand that get taught faster than the people who do not.
- Changing trades at forty, and which of your skills come with you
A mid career move between trades is not starting over, though it is often priced that way. What transfers is more than tools and less than seniority.
- License, certification, card. Which credentials an employer actually checks
Four different things get called qualifications in the trades, and only one of them is legally required. Knowing which is which saves both money and time.
- W-2 or 1099 in the trades? What actually changes besides the hourly number
The offer is thirty percent more per hour and no more time sheets. The comparison only works once the costs that used to be invisible are put back on the page.
- Apprenticeship or trade school? How the two routes actually cost out
One route pays you from the first week and makes you wait for a place. The other starts whenever you can pay for it. The gap between them is measured in years.