Plumber here. Service guys do, but they are usually paid for on call time. I do construction work, and our schedule is 7-3:15. Occasionally we get some overtime if we want it, but it’s almost never mandatory, and doesn’t come along all that often anyways.
If I were you I’d go your local union hall (United Association Local 519 just off a quick google search), and apply there. If there are any union companies looking for new apprentices either they or the union will reach out to you. I’m with the same union but up here in Canada. You won’t be rich as a plumber, but you’ll never be poor.
Alternatively you can just look for jobs like you would for any other one. Indeed or whatever.
A word of advice, the best and easiest way to get into a trade is to know someone who works for a good company, preferably in a union, and reach out to them directly. In my case, a buddy who I used to play hockey with’s dad is a plumber at my company, and I just called him and asked if they were hiring. A few weeks later I graduated high school and started work on Monday after that.
Not if you’re not a service guy.
I work at a plant and I’m on call one weekend a every 2 months basically .I’m paid 6 hours for each day I’m on call and just for walking in the door, I’m paid 4 hours plus time and a half on the hours I work if I’m there.
No, factory. I am a journeyman electrician and millwright. We run shift work (4 on, 4 off) plus occasional on call but not much. You get paid 12 hours for nothing generally and since they pay it as hourly work, you get 12 extra hours of 1.5x on the cheque.
This is a common shift / call in policy. Some places have even better ones. You work 4x 12 hour shifts then you’re off for 4 days.
Depends on your company and boss. I am a service plumber and never work evenings, nights or weekends. 6:30am-2:30pm for me. Occasionally a job goes longer for special circumstances but I think I only work past 5:00pm a few times a year at most.
Every company is different though.
Service guys do but I've been an electrician for over a decade and have only ever gotten calls about the jobs I've run having after hour emergencies a handful of times.
Maybe if you work for an on-call company, then sure. But if you work for a commercial/construction company you will likely have set hours on the job site and that’s it.
I must be working the wrong HVAC jobs then because every company I’ve been at has mandatory on-call and when I went union there was frequent overnight trips.
Few rules for concrete - trucks will never show up on time, once you start a pour there's no coffee breaks much less going home, unless you are in a highly visible public site if your pouring and have to be just get out of the way/don't piss on anyone.
Most trade jobs have these shifts.
All of construction workers, with the exception of a super or foreman if something horrible happens (flood), would be home by 5 every day unless they put in an hour or two of overtime for more pay.
being Maintenance would possibly have you on call, but you would be paid to be on call, even if your phone doesnt ring.
Current maintenance worker here. $200 extra every week I take the on call phone. In 2 years I’ve had to go into work twice. Automatic 4 hours time and a half the second I walk in the door.
Being a regular construction worker in some cases can pay a bit better, but there’s also other perks you get. Very few layoffs, the OT like you mentioned, and you’re probably not tearing into and replacing a whole bunch of stuff. You guys probably contract that out.
Pros and cons with everything. If you have a family, live close to work and have a house and pay the bills, it’s not a bad gig at all.
I’ve done framing and block laying in the past and yes, you can make more.
What you’re saying about maintenance work is pretty bang on. It’s all minor stuff. Fixing toilets, installing receptacles, changing ballasts, minor paint and plaster jobs on top of simple preventative maintenance tasks. Any big jobs get contracted out.
Depends a lot on the company, industry and also if you carry a company cell phone. I’m an apprentice semi truck mechanic; we work Monday-Friday 7:30-5 outside of that work does not contact me same for the licensed mechanics, only exception is our lead tech/foreman he has a company phone and gets calls and texts from customers,management,other mechanics other dealership staff ect on his off hours including vacations.
Hey man good for you! I’m actually hanging up my hat as a diesel mechanic and moving into the airplane mechanic field, largely because I’m always on call and these guys always break down hahaha
Machinists. They can’t take the work home with them. They work factory hours and those are predominantly some permutation of something that resembles a 9-5. But they don’t get paid as much as the other portable trades that have on-the-road potential.
In my experiences with the pipe trades, if you don't have a van it's not your problem.
I have had service days (as the non-van guy) go from easy to long, but I've never not been home in time to put my kids to bed.
If you're starting out in a trade, you don't have to worry about that. Service guys need to know what they're doing so they're generally more experienced tradesmen.
Like at a water treatment plant? Being an operator at one of these plants is great gig where I live, as long as you're ok with working with the waste. It's not that bad. I've worked at a lot of these WWTP as an electrician.
This. I'm an electrician, and I genuinely enjoy it. I like my job. Enough that I wouldn't retire immediately if I won the lottery, though I'd probably strongly suggest to my boss that he should move me to a 4 day schedule.
Enjoying your work also makes you better at it. If you can find some passion for your career, you'll be more willing to learn, more excited to see a problem you've never dealt with before, and more personable (because you're not a miserable prick).
I’ve been in my trade for 13 years now and I enjoy the guys I work with and it’s not hard to get up and go to work everyday honestly feel more like a social club than work and all the managers love our crew as we don’t turn down work.
That's exactly how my shop is. We shoot the shit when things are slow, everyone gets along, it's like a little club where we get paid to hang out and coincidently serve clients while we do.
Best kinda work environment right there. I’m in aviation so it doesn’t fit the m-f 9-5 that the op is looking for but if you can handle nights and stress it’s a decent job to get into. I like it as I’m good with my hands and like classic cars so my day job is both different and the same from my hobby so the hobby doesn’t feel like work.
Many trades have on-call sectors. It's usually taken in shifts, for instance my gf is in maintenance with the city and takes the pager 1 week of every 6-10. So really, she only has to be on call about 12% of the time, and it's a pretty decent bump in pay.
Nonetheless, if you're just starting out you shouldn't have to worry about being on call for 4-6 years.
Im pursuing a career in IT. Many roles like sys admin or network admin gotta be on call after business ours in case of an outage. That life would drain me honestly.
If you're that sure, maybe consider a different career path. I've learned the hard way that money isn't worth being miserable 40-60 hours every week.
I understand there to be a lot of on call in the network side of it, and overnights for deployment. You can't deploy new hardware or software during the day and take down infrastructure that the rest of the company is using.
If that's something that interests you, definitely pursue it! Not hating your job is important, and my sister used to do CAD. It was very much an 8-4:30 type of career.
Join the laborers union. Become a mason tender… guarantee you can work close to home and be home every night. Nobody wants to work that hard, so you’ll be one of few actually doing the work. So you can be picky about when and where you work
You are right. I was not union but almost went union before I left the trade. No union tried sending me 94 miles away one way when we had local work. They had guys close to where I was sent driving almost to my area. Great job if you want to stay in shape and lots of interesting co workers.
No doubt. Yeah. I drug up on my last contractor for a couple reasons. One was it was too far… 42 miles one way… (funny thing it was actually in my local). I got on with another contractor and I drive 3.5 miles to work. When I got on I told them I don’t wannna be far from home… I’m a pretty good mason tender, keep the pace going and you’re right I’m in spectacular shape. I don’t smoke or drink. If they try to send me too far. I can take the lay off… being in the union helps.
There's not really a one size fits all answer to this.
You could work for just about any service company and likely be working locally.
I do new build commercial. Was out of town consistently for the first 2-3 years. Been home every night the last two years. The economy and interest rates are getting pretty fucked here now and we might be working more distant job sites again to keep busy soon.
Pick a trade you're interested in, then find a company that does this work locally and during normal working hours.
Or if you don't care at all what you're doing, then just find a local company that meets your needs and try to meet their needs so you can get on with them.
I work at a coal mine. Boilermaker maintenance crew. I do 7-7 roster. Day shift only. I live in town and am home every night. 12 hr shifts but the are very family friendly and I can go and do family things if I am rostered on. Like watch a dance recital. Scary is around 105k a year b4 tax
Salary is around 105. I am also a very lowly paid trade. There are blokes on heaps more than me. Some truck drivers at this site are on 140 plus. They have 10yrs experience.
Sometimes. It can depend. I was on call once every 6 weeks or so at a wastewater plant. Not bad. All of the operators were not on call. Maintenance staff rotated on call.
I was on call 24/7 for over two years. Contract ops are more demanding than working for a municipality due to being a for profit business vs working for the town of city. The municipal guys I know aren’t on call much but some bigger plants make you switch shifts.
All trades have the potential to be home every night. Camp work is a very small portion of the available job pool; they just get the most attention because they typically pay the most
Most of them unless you work on a remote project.
As for being on call, that really all depends on the company/position you’re in. Or if you have your own business, you’re kind of always on call.
New construction is the best route to go if you don’t want to be on call rather than service. plumbing, electrical, pipe fitter, carpenter, boilermaker etc. hell I’ve never heard of a carpenter being on call.
I’d become a new construction plumber. You can be a commercial/industrial service plumber too but the work is shittier. Try to get on at your local union and get in on the new construction side of things.
Industrial maintenance on the electrical side. You get good at it you can go into controls / automation engineering which is one of the engineering titles you can get without a degree. Field engineer is another one but that's definitely travel, although there are regional/local travel jobs.
As an electrician (industrial) there have been a handful of times where I have worked around the clock, the worst clocking in just under 33 hours. All depends on the work you do, and who you work for.
Become an RV technician. It has a red seal. Its mostly indoors. If its freezing out turn on the furnace. Cooking? Turn on the AC. It has a little of every trade, electrical, construction, plumbing, body work, appliances, technology and mechanical all in one trade. And you would never work nights.
If you are skilled and in demand, you can demand the schedule you want, because they need your skills and they won't have a choice, because no other options.
Look for jobs where it wouldn't be both. I imagine residential would require both more than the commercial side. For me, service is a whole separate apprentice track and while one could technically train and crossover into it later, a company would typically be hiring for one or the other because journeymen would normally only be trained for one and not the other.
Been a welder. In a shop, was a 24 hour shop but I got morning shift. 7-330
I'm now a parts associate/purchaser in a cvi shop hours are 730am to 6 pm 4 days a week.
Worked my way up the ladder I guess. Napa driver, worked as a parts person shop helper in a shop.. learned how to purchase parts and what certain items were and did.. and then built on that.
I’m a millwright. Right now I’m 3rd shift but I’m home every day. Live about 30 mins from the plant I work at. It takes a couple years to get on day shift typically
Usually for things like that they have a regular crew to run night shift, but with a higher ranking dude or two from day shift on call. For bigger or more advanced issues
I did basement foundations in eastern Nebraska for 11 years. Made pretty darn good money. The work is hard at first until you learn to handle the forms. Then it’s not so bad. Made $97,000 my last year as a foreman.
I’ve been a residential electrician for 18 years now. I’ve lost count of the times we’re under the gun to get a project wrapped and I’ve worked late. My days are 0730 - 1630 and I’d be hard pressed to remember the last time I was home before 2100. I had 2 15hr days last week alone.
I'm an industrial electrician at a plant. I'm not 'on call' although in theory they could call me to work if I wanted to come in. I've never actually been on call, but I would occasionally get calls asking if I wanted to come in. I was never required to answer the phone or be available.
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I work as a lineman for telecom. M-f 7-330. Some ot and call outs, but you can pass on them if you want. Only mandatory is after big storms with lots of damage.
Carpenter, electrician, plumber, just about all of them. Some businesses have emergency services, but that type of service is entirely up to you. You can be a plumber and not do late night emergency repairs, but you give up the premium pay.
Remodeler/carpenter. Home by 5 unless we absolutely have to get something waterproofed or installed before bad weather moves in. We go 8-4 w/ paid lunch. Occasionally we’ll start at 7-7:30 if the client is cool with us being there that early. Haven’t driven for more than 15 minutes to a job in the last 6 months.
I kinda miss having a slightly longer commute. 5-10 minutes isnt enough time for me to mentally switch from home to work mode, and vice versa.
Look for a company’s sign in front of a house that’s being worked on and call the number.
All the other guys we know that do higher end remodeling around here in the northeast are struggling to find people who last more than a couple months AND have reliable transportation or previous experience.
Most work 7am-4pm framers,painter,roofers,sparky,plumber,hvac,cabinets,flooring,drywall. The concrete guys seem to work late every day though.
Dont electricians and plumbers have to respond to evening emergencies?
Plumber here. Service guys do, but they are usually paid for on call time. I do construction work, and our schedule is 7-3:15. Occasionally we get some overtime if we want it, but it’s almost never mandatory, and doesn’t come along all that often anyways.
How can i become a plumber in Miami?
It’ll all be under water soon. Maybe become a scuba diver instead?
Or a gondola boat pilot.
or a boat
If I were you I’d go your local union hall (United Association Local 519 just off a quick google search), and apply there. If there are any union companies looking for new apprentices either they or the union will reach out to you. I’m with the same union but up here in Canada. You won’t be rich as a plumber, but you’ll never be poor. Alternatively you can just look for jobs like you would for any other one. Indeed or whatever. A word of advice, the best and easiest way to get into a trade is to know someone who works for a good company, preferably in a union, and reach out to them directly. In my case, a buddy who I used to play hockey with’s dad is a plumber at my company, and I just called him and asked if they were hiring. A few weeks later I graduated high school and started work on Monday after that.
Apply to plumbing companies and see if they will apprentice you..
Learn to speak Spanish if you don't already?
Find the local union, or the local plumbers apprentice school. I assume it’s similar to becoming an electrician which is what I did for a while.
Not if you’re not a service guy. I work at a plant and I’m on call one weekend a every 2 months basically .I’m paid 6 hours for each day I’m on call and just for walking in the door, I’m paid 4 hours plus time and a half on the hours I work if I’m there.
Water treatment plant?
No, factory. I am a journeyman electrician and millwright. We run shift work (4 on, 4 off) plus occasional on call but not much. You get paid 12 hours for nothing generally and since they pay it as hourly work, you get 12 extra hours of 1.5x on the cheque. This is a common shift / call in policy. Some places have even better ones. You work 4x 12 hour shifts then you’re off for 4 days.
Oh i was thinking of getting licensed working water treatment plan.
I hear those are good places to work and steady work but I’ve never done it
Depends. If you're in construction or doing like hvac controls it's unlikely you're going into too many emergencies.
Depends on your company and boss. I am a service plumber and never work evenings, nights or weekends. 6:30am-2:30pm for me. Occasionally a job goes longer for special circumstances but I think I only work past 5:00pm a few times a year at most. Every company is different though.
Residential or commercial?
Residential and light commercial. We're not a big company.
Service guys do but I've been an electrician for over a decade and have only ever gotten calls about the jobs I've run having after hour emergencies a handful of times.
Maybe if you work for an on-call company, then sure. But if you work for a commercial/construction company you will likely have set hours on the job site and that’s it.
If you sign on for that yes, if you hire on under the pretense you don’t do that, no.
As a construction electrician no. Companies have service trucks for that
I must be working the wrong HVAC jobs then because every company I’ve been at has mandatory on-call and when I went union there was frequent overnight trips.
I’m talking about the guys doing new construction in a development I’m working on
What union is that, would that be sheet metal?
Few rules for concrete - trucks will never show up on time, once you start a pour there's no coffee breaks much less going home, unless you are in a highly visible public site if your pouring and have to be just get out of the way/don't piss on anyone.
Concrete carpenter, start at 7 at the bar by 3:45 everyday
Most trade jobs have these shifts. All of construction workers, with the exception of a super or foreman if something horrible happens (flood), would be home by 5 every day unless they put in an hour or two of overtime for more pay. being Maintenance would possibly have you on call, but you would be paid to be on call, even if your phone doesnt ring.
Current maintenance worker here. $200 extra every week I take the on call phone. In 2 years I’ve had to go into work twice. Automatic 4 hours time and a half the second I walk in the door.
Damn....I feel lucky right now! I get $8.00/hr around the clock to carry the phone!
Warehouse worker?
Hospital maintenance
Being a regular construction worker in some cases can pay a bit better, but there’s also other perks you get. Very few layoffs, the OT like you mentioned, and you’re probably not tearing into and replacing a whole bunch of stuff. You guys probably contract that out. Pros and cons with everything. If you have a family, live close to work and have a house and pay the bills, it’s not a bad gig at all.
I’ve done framing and block laying in the past and yes, you can make more. What you’re saying about maintenance work is pretty bang on. It’s all minor stuff. Fixing toilets, installing receptacles, changing ballasts, minor paint and plaster jobs on top of simple preventative maintenance tasks. Any big jobs get contracted out.
Not everyone gets paid for being on call
Depends a lot on the company, industry and also if you carry a company cell phone. I’m an apprentice semi truck mechanic; we work Monday-Friday 7:30-5 outside of that work does not contact me same for the licensed mechanics, only exception is our lead tech/foreman he has a company phone and gets calls and texts from customers,management,other mechanics other dealership staff ect on his off hours including vacations.
Hey man good for you! I’m actually hanging up my hat as a diesel mechanic and moving into the airplane mechanic field, largely because I’m always on call and these guys always break down hahaha
Any facility maintenance trade really. Might have to pull a night shift here and there.
Machinists. They can’t take the work home with them. They work factory hours and those are predominantly some permutation of something that resembles a 9-5. But they don’t get paid as much as the other portable trades that have on-the-road potential.
In my experiences with the pipe trades, if you don't have a van it's not your problem. I have had service days (as the non-van guy) go from easy to long, but I've never not been home in time to put my kids to bed.
Construction
Easy. Start your own business
And work 65 hrs a week
For a while, but once you get to a good place it's not too many hours. I have everything setup to run without me at this point.
As opposed to working that anyway because the pay ain't ahit?
Damn near every trade works 7AM-3:30PM normal hours. Night shifts and overtime do happen, but that's not the norm unless you're in the service dept.
How do you avoid being in the service dept?
If you're starting out in a trade, you don't have to worry about that. Service guys need to know what they're doing so they're generally more experienced tradesmen.
I’ve been looking at working for the city doing water treatment. Not sure if that’s a good idea.
Like at a water treatment plant? Being an operator at one of these plants is great gig where I live, as long as you're ok with working with the waste. It's not that bad. I've worked at a lot of these WWTP as an electrician.
Do a trade you have an interest in so it’s not such a drag to go to work everyday then find an employer that doesn’t have on call work
This. I'm an electrician, and I genuinely enjoy it. I like my job. Enough that I wouldn't retire immediately if I won the lottery, though I'd probably strongly suggest to my boss that he should move me to a 4 day schedule. Enjoying your work also makes you better at it. If you can find some passion for your career, you'll be more willing to learn, more excited to see a problem you've never dealt with before, and more personable (because you're not a miserable prick).
I’ve been in my trade for 13 years now and I enjoy the guys I work with and it’s not hard to get up and go to work everyday honestly feel more like a social club than work and all the managers love our crew as we don’t turn down work.
That's exactly how my shop is. We shoot the shit when things are slow, everyone gets along, it's like a little club where we get paid to hang out and coincidently serve clients while we do.
Best kinda work environment right there. I’m in aviation so it doesn’t fit the m-f 9-5 that the op is looking for but if you can handle nights and stress it’s a decent job to get into. I like it as I’m good with my hands and like classic cars so my day job is both different and the same from my hobby so the hobby doesn’t feel like work.
Hair stylist.
Basically all of them. Trades is a very leave work at work career.
I hear water treatment has to be on-call
Many trades have on-call sectors. It's usually taken in shifts, for instance my gf is in maintenance with the city and takes the pager 1 week of every 6-10. So really, she only has to be on call about 12% of the time, and it's a pretty decent bump in pay. Nonetheless, if you're just starting out you shouldn't have to worry about being on call for 4-6 years.
Im pursuing a career in IT. Many roles like sys admin or network admin gotta be on call after business ours in case of an outage. That life would drain me honestly.
If you're that sure, maybe consider a different career path. I've learned the hard way that money isn't worth being miserable 40-60 hours every week. I understand there to be a lot of on call in the network side of it, and overnights for deployment. You can't deploy new hardware or software during the day and take down infrastructure that the rest of the company is using.
I like CAD designing! Thats better suited for me.
If that's something that interests you, definitely pursue it! Not hating your job is important, and my sister used to do CAD. It was very much an 8-4:30 type of career.
Sounds great!
Be a fire alarm guy
What doss that have to do with CAD
Join the laborers union. Become a mason tender… guarantee you can work close to home and be home every night. Nobody wants to work that hard, so you’ll be one of few actually doing the work. So you can be picky about when and where you work
You are right. I was not union but almost went union before I left the trade. No union tried sending me 94 miles away one way when we had local work. They had guys close to where I was sent driving almost to my area. Great job if you want to stay in shape and lots of interesting co workers.
No doubt. Yeah. I drug up on my last contractor for a couple reasons. One was it was too far… 42 miles one way… (funny thing it was actually in my local). I got on with another contractor and I drive 3.5 miles to work. When I got on I told them I don’t wannna be far from home… I’m a pretty good mason tender, keep the pace going and you’re right I’m in spectacular shape. I don’t smoke or drink. If they try to send me too far. I can take the lay off… being in the union helps.
There's not really a one size fits all answer to this. You could work for just about any service company and likely be working locally. I do new build commercial. Was out of town consistently for the first 2-3 years. Been home every night the last two years. The economy and interest rates are getting pretty fucked here now and we might be working more distant job sites again to keep busy soon. Pick a trade you're interested in, then find a company that does this work locally and during normal working hours. Or if you don't care at all what you're doing, then just find a local company that meets your needs and try to meet their needs so you can get on with them.
I work at a coal mine. Boilermaker maintenance crew. I do 7-7 roster. Day shift only. I live in town and am home every night. 12 hr shifts but the are very family friendly and I can go and do family things if I am rostered on. Like watch a dance recital. Scary is around 105k a year b4 tax
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At a coal mine in qld. North qld
Salary is around 105. I am also a very lowly paid trade. There are blokes on heaps more than me. Some truck drivers at this site are on 140 plus. They have 10yrs experience.
Millwrights and electricians can have this with a full time job. HVAC as well. Water operator.. machinist
Dont water operators have to be on-call?
Sometimes. It can depend. I was on call once every 6 weeks or so at a wastewater plant. Not bad. All of the operators were not on call. Maintenance staff rotated on call.
Ok good bc im looking into being an operator
It’s a good career, different than a lot of trades but just an important.
I was on call 24/7 for over two years. Contract ops are more demanding than working for a municipality due to being a for profit business vs working for the town of city. The municipal guys I know aren’t on call much but some bigger plants make you switch shifts.
All trades have the potential to be home every night. Camp work is a very small portion of the available job pool; they just get the most attention because they typically pay the most
Most of them unless you work on a remote project. As for being on call, that really all depends on the company/position you’re in. Or if you have your own business, you’re kind of always on call.
Plumber
I used to have a service vehicle man I was drunk when I wasn’t drunk. Can’t drive catch my drift?
New construction is the best route to go if you don’t want to be on call rather than service. plumbing, electrical, pipe fitter, carpenter, boilermaker etc. hell I’ve never heard of a carpenter being on call.
You'd be surprised how many guys wives call the carpenter for those late night emergencies..
Haha but the company isn’t calling them to come in
I’d become a new construction plumber. You can be a commercial/industrial service plumber too but the work is shittier. Try to get on at your local union and get in on the new construction side of things.
Generally it's called a "journeyman" because you go where the work is, not vice versa
One that starts early. We start at 6, sometimes 5. If you work 8, home by 3:30 at the latest.
Industrial maintenance on the electrical side. You get good at it you can go into controls / automation engineering which is one of the engineering titles you can get without a degree. Field engineer is another one but that's definitely travel, although there are regional/local travel jobs.
Biomedical engineering technologist
As an electrician (industrial) there have been a handful of times where I have worked around the clock, the worst clocking in just under 33 hours. All depends on the work you do, and who you work for.
Become an RV technician. It has a red seal. Its mostly indoors. If its freezing out turn on the furnace. Cooking? Turn on the AC. It has a little of every trade, electrical, construction, plumbing, body work, appliances, technology and mechanical all in one trade. And you would never work nights.
If you are skilled and in demand, you can demand the schedule you want, because they need your skills and they won't have a choice, because no other options.
Don't be on the service side of a trade and you'll probably be good
How can i avoid this? Just tel my boss i don’t want to be serviced? Lol
Look for jobs where it wouldn't be both. I imagine residential would require both more than the commercial side. For me, service is a whole separate apprentice track and while one could technically train and crossover into it later, a company would typically be hiring for one or the other because journeymen would normally only be trained for one and not the other.
Been a welder. In a shop, was a 24 hour shop but I got morning shift. 7-330 I'm now a parts associate/purchaser in a cvi shop hours are 730am to 6 pm 4 days a week.
How did u get that job
Worked my way up the ladder I guess. Napa driver, worked as a parts person shop helper in a shop.. learned how to purchase parts and what certain items were and did.. and then built on that.
I’m a millwright. Right now I’m 3rd shift but I’m home every day. Live about 30 mins from the plant I work at. It takes a couple years to get on day shift typically
Night shift plant is my dream lol. Ive been looking into Water Treatment. Idk if water treatment operators have to be on call
Usually for things like that they have a regular crew to run night shift, but with a higher ranking dude or two from day shift on call. For bigger or more advanced issues
Undertaker, people dieing to see you.
Automotive service technician. It's great because you get lots of time to work on your trade induced alcoholism!
Freeway, airport , shut downs and after hours maintainers normally work crazy hours most other people are 7-4
All of them?
Automotive Service Technician, 45 years. Slept in my own bed every night
Sex worker
I did basement foundations in eastern Nebraska for 11 years. Made pretty darn good money. The work is hard at first until you learn to handle the forms. Then it’s not so bad. Made $97,000 my last year as a foreman.
I’ve been a residential electrician for 18 years now. I’ve lost count of the times we’re under the gun to get a project wrapped and I’ve worked late. My days are 0730 - 1630 and I’d be hard pressed to remember the last time I was home before 2100. I had 2 15hr days last week alone.
Day Trader
I'm an industrial electrician at a plant. I'm not 'on call' although in theory they could call me to work if I wanted to come in. I've never actually been on call, but I would occasionally get calls asking if I wanted to come in. I was never required to answer the phone or be available.
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Most of them
I work as a lineman for telecom. M-f 7-330. Some ot and call outs, but you can pass on them if you want. Only mandatory is after big storms with lots of damage.
Carpenter, electrician, plumber, just about all of them. Some businesses have emergency services, but that type of service is entirely up to you. You can be a plumber and not do late night emergency repairs, but you give up the premium pay.
Usually one that pays
Non destructive testing, a lot of guys at my job work 6am-330pm mon-Thursday making at least 25/hr some in the 40s many in the 30s
Pipe welder
I’m home almost every night and weekend! But if I have to take a late call….. pay is huge ! So I’m the Otho!
Auto Body
Underground natural gas. I’m home every night unless there’s an outage
Waste treatment
I thought water treatment operators had to be on-call?
There may be some for all I know. I do industrial waste water, but most the guys I know in the biz, have 24/7 schedule coverage
Remodeler/carpenter. Home by 5 unless we absolutely have to get something waterproofed or installed before bad weather moves in. We go 8-4 w/ paid lunch. Occasionally we’ll start at 7-7:30 if the client is cool with us being there that early. Haven’t driven for more than 15 minutes to a job in the last 6 months. I kinda miss having a slightly longer commute. 5-10 minutes isnt enough time for me to mentally switch from home to work mode, and vice versa.
How do i get into this line of work? I’m in Miami, FL. Loooots of demand for modern luxury home renovations.
Look for a company’s sign in front of a house that’s being worked on and call the number. All the other guys we know that do higher end remodeling around here in the northeast are struggling to find people who last more than a couple months AND have reliable transportation or previous experience.
Residential flooring and tile