Work
Everything filed under work, listed in full rather than as a feed.
Articles
- Very Little of It Is the Trade: What a First Year Apprentice Actually Does
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: What Carries Across and What You Genuinely Start Again
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, Card or Certificate? Which Trade Credentials an Employer Will Actually Verify
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.
- Offered a 1099 at Thirty Percent More? What Changes Besides the Number on the Hour
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 go back on the page.
- Thinking About a Trade? How the Apprenticeship and the Classroom Compare Once You Count the Years
One route pays from the first week and makes you wait for a place; the other starts whenever you can pay for it, and the gap between them is measured in years.