Suggestions for career change, good paying short training no v demand options?

[Eldritch]

If I was to recommend a union trade, especially to a woman, electrician all the way. Relatively high pay and plenty of lighter duty roles.

Welding all the time? I can’t imagine.

Yes, but joining a Union at 50 is also nonsense. They would require YEARS of trade school as an apprentice before you could make the nice money and it is also really hard to get into the Electricians Union in the bay area. Probably Age based decision making would play a big factor because they want people to work in the trade as long as possible before they retire.

 

[Yakoo752]

A main constraint is that I am barely scraping by financially and I have no savings.

Able to work part-time, as I prefer a healthy work-life balance.

 

[Eldritch]

This.

Also I’m in trades in Marin, if dude thinks it’ll be easier to be an anti vax misogonist in Marin, he’s never dealt with marin women lol I’m routinely asked for my vax proof also

As someone also familiar with trades work in Marin, I assume they often are looking to see if they can search you for your proof of vaccination personally, just to be sure.

 

[TylerW]

Nope, OP is a male. He's the one with the Bandit with all the problems and wanted to learn how to use his shotgun for defense by playing with airsoft guns.
He now wants to learn a trade but doesn't want to invest in the education or invest in the tools, wants to work part time and earn a large salary.

Welp, I read the room wrong. Thanks for clueing me in.

 

[SVJ]

51 is gonna be tough, but I worked with a bunch of older guys for a while who were able to hang. Check out operating engineers. I’d suggest grade checker, or if you’re willing to do some basic trigonometry, surveying. Hours suck, pay is pretty decent. Pretty sure they don’t require the gene therapy. Very few women, but you better not fuck with the ones who are there, they’ll kick your ass.

 

[Charles R]

Looking for all the benefits, with none of the effort? You sound like my sister.... who's also going to fail with that. (At 52, she's trying to leave dental, and become a software coder...or a work from home quality assurance tech...or stenographer... or a whatever she thinks will be the easy path to riches this month)

Short answer. Your goals are not achievable HERE in the Bay Area. Too expensive. Too much competition for a new, barely qualified, person to achieve, "easily".

Move away from this area/state, and you'll at least find better financial security even if you're just a cashier in a chain market.

Everything else that involves a "full reset" will require hard effort, a fair amount of money, and time. At 51, that's not really a viable plan, now is it?

 

[HappyHighwayman]

I recommend jobs where you don't interact with people you could infect with your stone age understanding of science and vaccines.

 

[mean dad]

No way in hell I'd let some random schmuck practice his plumbing skills on my home's water supply (be it ingress or egress).

Connecting pieces of pipe is easy, knowing what to do if things don't go smoothly is where experience and education come into play.

 

[DucatiHoney]

 

[HeatXfer]

< See my avatar?

Painters, Plumbers and electricians, construction, wood carpenter skills all make bank basically any real trade if you can start your own business and start bidding on jobs

Unless you're full-on 'A' type it's not an easy row to hoe, specially in California

Learn to Weld. You are welcome.

This is a good suggestion

Plumber. Watch youtube to learn. Not many expensive tools to buy. Look on Nextdoor and volunteer to help fix old people's plumbing issues in local neighborhood (free labor, they pay for parts).

That's the training program.

Then post up an ad on CL and go to work.

I was away on a trip, kitchen faucet messed up, wife got a plumber out, was $275 in labor to replace the faucet with a new one. He was here less than 1 hr. It wasn't anything odd about it. And she did not check to see if he was licensed and insured, etc.

Just take the jobs like sink leaking, toilet keeps running, need new faucets, etc. If someone contacts you about a sewage leak under the house just say your crew is booked up for a month.

Not sure if serious...That's not a training program. I'm all for do it yourself, if you can do it yourself...

Don't do this, get licensed and your certification, no need to try do this the wrong way

Yes

HVAC, has a chance of being "cleaner" than a plumber, union possibilities, but still need the training. Tools mostly supplied with truck.

Correct

You wanna hump ducting and units through hot, dirty attics in your 50's?
At 51 you should be at the top of your trade, not starting over, especially in the trades.
There is no cheap easy ticket or everyone would be doing it.
Figure out what you need to do to make your present trade acceptable.
Forget about the anti vax conspiracy junk, learn how to treat woman as equals, make yourself desirable in your business and develop your business as a business.

Duct? Nobody in their right mind wants to be a tin-knocker - But absolutely right on everything else

The trades can be a good career choice up to about 40yrs old; after that, it's diminishing returns: not enough time to build a worthwhile pension, and many employers won't sponsor you for apprenticeship programs. You might get hired as an entry-level tradesman, but that's usually just menial labor.

If you've got some computer skills, are familiar with inventory systems or have people skills a parts house counter person job might be something to look into. A common thread here is Training

 

[Abacinator]

... the gene therapy...

 

[SVJ]

I recommend jobs where you don't interact with people you could infect with your stone age understanding of science and vaccines.

Aren’t you a friendly little fella!

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Yeah pandemic going around with millions of anti science people deserves friendship and compassion lol.

Also nice ad-hom

 

[SVJ]

Triggered? That’s all you got? Can’t even have a little fun ‘round here with getting some panties all bunched up.

God, BARF is loaded with so many blow hard dicks these days. (I’d say pussies, but pussies are actually tough, and I’m not sure I’ve seen a pussy circle jerk.)

 

[BURNROPE]

Four things you need to know to be a plumber:
1. Shit goes down.
2. Cold goes on the right.
3. Pay day is Friday.
4. Don't bite your fingernails.

 

[DucatiHoney]

Triggered? That’s all you got? Can’t even have a little fun ‘round here with getting some panties all bunched up.

God, BARF is loaded with so many blow hard dicks these days. (I’d say pussies, but pussies are actually tough, and I’m not sure I’ve seen a pussy circle jerk.)

Let's everyone ease up. Or take it to PM's. That's private messages, not PMS, just in case anyone wants to insult the wimmenz some more.

 

[Entoptic]

Realtor or AWS training for free online

 

[SVJ]

Yeah pandemic going around with millions of anti science people deserves friendship and compassion lol.

Also nice ad-hom

Nooooo. It’s not like I called you Eeyore!!

Perhaps fart-smeller is better ? Or, a peach?

Maybe he has a legitimate medical reason to not want it? (At 51, admittedly it’s a short list) but you didn’t even give him the benefit of the doubt... not everyone that disagrees with “you” is dumb.

 

[HappyHighwayman]

Another criteria is a job free from the covid hysteria and discrimination against people who respect our bodily autonomy and natural immunity over the demands to be injected with experimental pharmaceutical drugs which dont even protect against it but create negative side effects for many people which get ignored by the media sponsored by the same pharmaceutical companies.

Yeah I'm sure that's it and not all the other statements lol

 

[TylerW]

I've quit better jobs than this.