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1701532 No.1701532 [Reply] [Original]

What's it like being a carpenter?

>> No.1701543

Shit base pay, the only way you make good money is by working overtime so you have to sacrifice more of your life into the trade. You are going to be the general labourers of the site and have to do carpentry shit

>> No.1701548

>>1701532
i hated wearing a tool belt all day

>> No.1701549

>>1701543
If you have your own business you make alot. I know these fucker charge like 65$ and hour.

>> No.1701843

>>1701549
>now you have to sacrifice all your life into the trade
no thanks, I want to go home and forget that i'm blue collar

>> No.1701849

>>1701532
Being a carpenter means your superpower is drilling holes at stupid angles and not getting fired

>> No.1701885

>>1701849

You're thinking of electricians and plumbers. Carpenters don't actually drill very many holes when building a house.

To answer OP, though, being a framer is fun and hard and you have to be something of a gymnast and acrobat on a non-OSHA site. If you have the skills or potential to learn, get into interior trim carpentry and work your way into a crew that does high-end houses, and you will seldom be bored and might make decent tradie money.

>> No.1701895

>>1701532

if all you can do is use a nailgun, you will be paid like shit.

however, if you know trigonometry and can use that in pair with some creativity to come up with solutions no one else on the jobsite can do, your skill will be recognized very quickly.

but that's the same with all jobs. do something that puts your above the other workers and you will move up.

>> No.1701903

>>1701532
I'm an industrial formwork carpenter. My base wage is $36.75/hr.

I fucking hate the sheer amount of weight I deal with, no matter what I'm doing. I carry about 30lbs 9 hours a day, then add in whatever I may be working with. Right now I'm building system scaffolding, so components range for 7 lbs to 40 lbs each, and when I'm not scaffolding I'm dealing with PERI Trio wall forms, which range from 40 lbs to 250 lbs for manual labor, and then up to around 900 lbs when we have use of the crane for assembly.

>> No.1701912

>>1701895
my mum says im good at maths, should i do carpentry?

>> No.1701924

>>1701912
no. you should do engineering

>> No.1701928

>>1701924
I don't want to go to university.

>> No.1701945

>>1701928
Even tradesmen have to go to school.

>> No.1701989

>>1701532
You get to go home to your 8 kids and fat wife who made beans and cow tounge

>> No.1702049

>>1701903
is your back broken?

>> No.1702054

>>1701543
He said carpenter, not laborer. Thats a different job.

>> No.1702068

>>1701532
what kind of carpenter do you want to be?
Framer/deck builder?
trim carpenter?
cabinet maker?
Glorified laborer?

There are niches to every trade and while the basic skills are likely the same the day to day will differ greatly.

>> No.1702069

>>1701989
>beans and cow tounge
>cow tounge
>tounge

...

Illiterate faggot

>> No.1702114

>>1702069
¿Por que?

>> No.1702116

>>1702054
t. never been on a site

>> No.1702121

>>1702054
Here we call them tarpenters,
Because all they do is hang hoarding

>> No.1702124

>>1702054
Carpenters do any job they get offered. I've seen them rough in dwv, lay concrete slabs, install chain link fence. I can't speak for union guys but I've even saw carpenters fitting gas pipe. They have their specializations but a lot of them are handy men outside of that.

>> No.1702230

>>1701895
This is bullshit.

Protip, someone with 20-80 years of experience will always hang that over your head. You will make Walmart wages and watch the elders either do the only work that requires any thinking or hopelessly fail at it.

>> No.1702232

>>1701549
Remodeling is like 50/man hour in the poor and stupid states. Only rich pricks will pay this to established companies. This is despite the fact that the same dumb $12-18 / hour monkeys will be doing all the installing.

>> No.1702607

>>1701532
Lots of fun.

>> No.1702745

>>1701549
>65$ and hour.
we charge 125 for commercial installation of cabinets/reception desks, ect

>> No.1702790

>>1702230

and then there's this guy. he's partially correct also. there will always be that old fucker on the job that's been there for 50 years and "knows everything" and everyone on the jobsite trusts him, even though he's slow as fuck and a hack that can't do shit.

just wait until he has a heart attack and then take his place. but again, that's every job ever. you always have to wait your place in line.