Hypothetical: your new construction job.

[Rain Man]

Here's the situation: You go into a 7/11 and witness a mass murder. Running out the door, you escape, and when the police arrive you give them a description of the murderer. (It's a bigger guy with bad glasses wearing an orange jersey that is two digits, first digit being a five.)

In order to protect you, the FBI gives you a new identity and a job working at a front firm operated by the FBI. It's a construction company, so you're required to take a construction job. You will receive the necessary training to do the new job.

What occupation do you take?

Poll coming as soon as I get my toolbox open.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by RubberSponge

I wanted HVAC but Electrician will do.

Originally Posted by Fire Me Boy!

In which of these jobs would I be in air conditioning?

Aha. I have an answer. HVAC people are not categorized by the feds as construction workers, but rather are classified as Installation, maintenance, and repair. So you can't be an HVAC worker in this exercise.

[Beef Supreme]

Spoiler!

I would blackmail Von Miller to stay quiet

[Dartgod]

Where's the option for the guy that installs network and A/V infrastructure? Cabling and such?

I want to be that guy.

The closest option was electrician, so I selected that.

[Iowanian]

I've done several constuction jobs working my way up....I've been a flagged on road constuction in College for a summer....most boring job on the planet, bonus I taught myself to juggle with rocks during the endless hours of desolation. I've been a construction laborer for a couple of summers, have roofed, laid tile, some concrete and spent a summer installing sewer pipe.

I know what my body won't do anymore and several of these jobs are very physically demanding.....I don't want to be a stone mason, roofer or floor/tile installer...too hard on the back and knees. Big ups to the men who can do that.

If I had to choose I'd pick equipment operator due to the pay and it's match with my age and experience with GPS and equipment.

That said, I know for sure that if I started day one as a general laborer it wouldn't take long to move up the food chain to a much more desirable job. If you work really hard and prove yourself capable they don't leave you on the end of a shovel very long.



If I were advising a young person to choose something from that list I would tell them to be an electrician. Pay is solid and there will be huge demand in the field as so many are retiring. I believe skilled trades will be in big demand soon and the pay will demonstrate that.

[The Franchise]

Originally Posted by Dartgod

Where's the option for the guy that installs network and A/V infrastructure? Cabling and such?

I want to be that guy.

The closest option was electrician, so I selected that.

This.

But I chose painter.

[patteeu]

I'm going to be a glazier. I bring sunshine to people.

[Beef Supreme]

Originally Posted by Pestilence

This.

But I chose painter.

So you like to smoke weed.

[Iowanian]

I wish I Had chosen electrician.....I took the day off and need to go install a couple rows of lights and a circuit of plugs in my shop. I'm not very good at it and usually get shocked or do things twice to make it work.

[Pablo]

Originally Posted by BigChiefTablet

So you like to smoke weed.

Nah. You'll never meet a painter that isn't an alcoholic. Weed is secondary.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I'm going to be a glazier. I bring sunshine to people.

I had to look that one up. I thought it was the guy who brought doughnuts.

[Eleazar]

You forgot the job where you catcall all the women who walk by the job site

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Iowanian

I wish I Had chosen electrician.....I took the day off and need to go install a couple rows of lights and a circuit of plugs in my shop. I'm not very good at it and usually get shocked or do things twice to make it work.

Do you want to choose it to learn more about the profession, or do you want to choose it because you enjoy being shocked?

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I had to look that one up. I thought it was the guy who brought doughnuts.

It's hard to go wrong bringing people sunshine or doughnuts.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

I wasn't sure how this would turn out, but we seem to have a strong pattern in what we feel are the most most desirable or easiest jobs. I'm not particularly surprised that hazardous material removal isn't getting a lot of votes. How does a person end up in that profession anyway? You must be really uncertain of your career path and then get recruited to do it.

I'd do it. I know how to handle chemical.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I'd do it. I know how to handle chemical.

If Chiefsplanet starts a construction company, I may need you to do it. And I'll assign a few of our electricians to be your assistants.

I look at these jobs, and boy, I would not be a good construction worker. These all require skills and aptitudes that I simply don't have.