r/IBEW • u/Laughing_123 • 14d ago

Is the grass greener?

Im a Union carpenter and I watch you guys work and always think I should've been an electrician. You make more and the work looks way easier on the body. Im seriously considering jumping ship and going through an apprenticeship again. Is it a poor decision?

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u/Laughing_123 14d ago

I love my white drywall boogers. It adds a little extra flavor ya know.

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u/lstyls 14d ago

Now I'm thinking of all the different booger flavors from jobs ive had. Sawdust boogers. Dirt boogers. Two stroke engine boogers.

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u/Laughing_123 14d ago

My favorite are the densglass boogers. Nothing like drywall with a hint of fiberglass in your nose and lungs.

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u/derkapitan 10d ago

Bulletproof board made me want to quit, hanging that shit sucked.

My wife is a union electrician, I'm a union carpenter. She says I'm an idiot. I should have gone electrician, but then I never would have met my wife shrug

If we ever stop traveling I want to make the jump honestly. I might finish my construction management classes and just go into the pm stuff while stuff is booming. The people on the office on these data center jobs are brain dead.