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America's new millionaire class: Plumbers and HVAC entrepreneurs

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185 points hhs | 1 comments | 13 Oct 24 15:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.775s | source
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SoftTalker ◴[13 Oct 24 16:38 UTC] No.41829404[source]▶
There are several tradespeople I know (electricians, plumbers, carpenters) who make more money than I do. But I don't begrudge them that, electricians do work where a mistake can literally kill you, and all of these jobs have high injury rates and will wear your body down much faster than sitting at a keyboard.

Edit: and there are no "open source" tools. You have to buy them, and good ones are not cheap.

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1. m463 ◴[14 Oct 24 07:02 UTC] No.41834950[source]▶
I remember ~20 years ago a guy where I worked was the in-house telecom type guy, phones, network drops, etc.

Before that he was a tiling contractor. He said you could make $1m a year if you wanted to. But it was physically super demanding (that lead to his transition to telecom)