[mcnugget]

You could join the resource industry, there's a labor shortage and there's all sort of vocational training. Some jobs require minimal training others more but you can be up and running in as little as 3 months for something relatively skilled. It's a refreshing feeling to have a job where the deliverables are very specific and day to day like you need to move this crap from here to there and that's it, no thinking about tickets or infrastructure or having to liaise with 8 stakeholders, nah bro supervisor said you need to help the guy move the drill cores, that's it for the next 5 days.

[vturner]

There is such shortage of skilled contractors. It's unreal, so I've considered getting in via being an electrician.

The starting salaries always stop me though. How can I reset the salary clock 10 years?

Maybe if I had started out at 20 on this route I could do what my father did: carpet cleaning and supported two sons and a homemaker on his one truck operation. We were solid middle class. All the needs met.

It's amazing what quality hard work, calling people back, and time can do.

Better get back writing my self evaluation...

[mxuribe]

> ...join the resource industry...

Would you kindly provide some examples? Would this be jobs like welding? I just never heard this term.

[selimthegrim]

Mining? Maybe the poster is Australian?

[freetime2]

Interesting suggestion. Could somebody in their 40s who’s only ever had a desk job get into this?

[bombcar]

Yes but it would be tricky without major savings.

One avenue might be to start doing IT work with and for a local electrician, and expand from there. If you're comfortable with computers, they could offer you as the low-voltage side of things.

[richiebful1]

You're talking about oil and gas extraction (as an example) right?