I think my 21 year old son made a good move getting into the electrical trade

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20. It all depends a lot on the economy.

We have been in a building boom for quite a while and I expect it to crash soon. During the last recession we had over one thousand journeyman electricians on the bench. When we were doing a major renovation at the plant you had to be pretty high up in seniority to have a job. Construction trades employment goes up and down by huge amounts. The smart ones are conservative with their money when times are good. I knew one journeyman electrician who started his own duct cleaning business because there was just no work. I had an instructor in a class who used to make about a quarter million a year running his own electrical business and took the teaching job because the work wasn't there.