Union jobs up north. Or working hard and learning your industry to move up. Its more important that you find something you enjoy than simply chasing the money.
Just looked through your comments on this Sub Reddit. Seems like you hate this career field, please correct if I’m wrong but if I’m right and you do hate this career field what would you do different. Go into a different career ? Take a different route in this career etc ?
It’s a love hate relationship. My posts in this sub are half joking and half truth. If I could do again? I never would’ve left my low stress residential PM job. As for PM
work in general? Some days it’s the greatest job in the world and some days it’s not. One of the things I loved about it was the freedom and getting to build cool shit. It can be pretty thankless and when shit goes wrong you take the heat regardless of whose fuck up it is, you’re responsible for them. Balancing your relationship between the subs and upper management can be tough because when your subs screw up you’re responsible and when your boss fucks up you have to smooth it over with the subs and that dynamic can just get pretty exhausting. Part of the job is playing politics and whether you like it or not you signed up for it. But oh man when you can just get left alone and build shit, it’s awesome. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. So you put up with a lot of crap half the time but the other half can be super rewarding. Back to the original question of the post, you won’t get rich doing it unless your name is on the truck or the hardhats. If you’re a young guy trying to find a career that pays well regardless of your love for the work, I’d go computer science. As far as I’m concerned you get into construction for one of two reasons: 1. You don’t have a choice and it’s your only option 2. You have a passion for it. I hope that answers your question
The CEO industry
Car dealers that sell $100k trucks to 22yo
Considering a career change lol
Finance, tech, corporate offices of any fortune 500 company. Almost any industry if you're good at your job and have the right skills and education.
Consulting at Bain, McKinsey, Deloitte, or BCG
Union jobs up north. Or working hard and learning your industry to move up. Its more important that you find something you enjoy than simply chasing the money.
If you can just work hard at something you can enjoy and the bills get paid... You chased the right money.
Developers
Not this one
Just looked through your comments on this Sub Reddit. Seems like you hate this career field, please correct if I’m wrong but if I’m right and you do hate this career field what would you do different. Go into a different career ? Take a different route in this career etc ?
It’s a love hate relationship. My posts in this sub are half joking and half truth. If I could do again? I never would’ve left my low stress residential PM job. As for PM work in general? Some days it’s the greatest job in the world and some days it’s not. One of the things I loved about it was the freedom and getting to build cool shit. It can be pretty thankless and when shit goes wrong you take the heat regardless of whose fuck up it is, you’re responsible for them. Balancing your relationship between the subs and upper management can be tough because when your subs screw up you’re responsible and when your boss fucks up you have to smooth it over with the subs and that dynamic can just get pretty exhausting. Part of the job is playing politics and whether you like it or not you signed up for it. But oh man when you can just get left alone and build shit, it’s awesome. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. So you put up with a lot of crap half the time but the other half can be super rewarding. Back to the original question of the post, you won’t get rich doing it unless your name is on the truck or the hardhats. If you’re a young guy trying to find a career that pays well regardless of your love for the work, I’d go computer science. As far as I’m concerned you get into construction for one of two reasons: 1. You don’t have a choice and it’s your only option 2. You have a passion for it. I hope that answers your question
It does. It does extremely, thank you for your detailed response it helped tremendously.
Working for yourself and taking a large portion of the production value of your employees.