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Originally Posted by davischevy
I spend a lot of time studying future careers in trades. I read something yesterday that said most electricians were looking for something easier on the body by age 50.
I had back surgery when I was 43 and hernia surgery at 48 so I was done framing houses. Luckily, I had already started buying big yellow machines.
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I took a job with the City to get away from running work back in '14. I had become tired of the 80 - 100 hour weeks and I was getting a pretty bad case of the monkey butt and could see that the stress was gonna kill me in short order. Although the pay is considerably less with the city, its also not as mentally taxing now. A little residential moonlighting helps make the ends meet these days.
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Originally Posted by Ol Blue K20
Especially industrial, the heavy conduit runs and wire pulls take their toll
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Yeah, it does beat you up after a while no matter how smart you work. I was just given a job running a couple thousand feet of 3/4 GRC. Individually it's not so bad but moving the bundles around is the same as slinging 4" joints.
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Originally Posted by special-K
Climbing up and down all around all over and under into every nook and cranny I'd think could be a hard part of it.
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Just spent 6 hrs in a friends attic yesterday helping him rearrange his home theater. He's a pretty smart techie kind of guy but is not allowed to work on his house (his wife's rule not mine). Anyway, it was one of those jobs that I told the wife Id be back in a couple hours at 10 am and finally returned home at 6. I don't think Ive ever run into as many fire and diagonal blocks in 30 years of doing this work. Ended up leaving 2 big augers and 3 extensions in his walls
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To your point though Tim, my knees were starting to swell on the 10 minute ride home. Today its ice packs and football.
I really need to get on finding that part time job soon!