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by juve1996 1154 days ago
They're certainly not recession proof - recessions are terrible times for trades. Trades do well when the economy does well - people spend more on non-necessity projects and that demand goes away in recessions. Sure, people still need a clog removed - but now there's more plumbers because they aren't installing new bathrooms.

It really gets old hearing software developers talk about trades yet none of them do them. I've seen what the trades have done to my dad, uncle, grandparents. They earned good livings - but it was real, hard work, and they paid for that hard work.