Comment by axus

Industrial electricians have always been in the boom-bust cycle.

IBEW (Union electricians) have been doing really well this decade. Another option if you don't want to be a contractor or an Anthropic employee. But they've also gone years without enough work to go around.

Scroll down to this comment for a better discussion than I could give: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49098874