Comment by kcplate
3 years ago
> If I would be young now, I'd say fuck it and go install solar panels or heat pumps
Amen. For me the advice I give the young—-go for a trade. HVAC (especially if you live where it’s hot) and plumbing to me are the most future and recession proof jobs there are. Literally by the time other folks are graduating with CS degrees and massive college debt, you have been making 70k a year for 3 years and are about to clip 6 figures for the rest of the time you want to work.
One day a computer will be able to write its own code (and that’s not that far off now), but no robot or computer in this world will be able to come to your house and fix a clogged toilet, or replace a blown capacitor in your heat pump and people will always be willing to pay nearly anything to get those two problems replaced.
Unfortunately, this is also a low cost skill to acquire, so the barrier to entry is low.
As all the mid level white collar jobs keep getting automated away, there's going to be a glut of people in need of income who are more than capable of learning a trade if their ego can handle it.
> Unfortunately, this is also a low cost skill to acquire, so the barrier to entry is low.
Why is this “unfortunate”?