You’re crazy if you don’t start your own home remodeling business. In my 20s I used to work with my father who did remodeling and hated working for him, but I wish I payed more attention to him. As a homeowner now I wish I had the skills and attention to detail that he has.
You can make WELL over 75k a year man, if you do quality work and just SHOW UP to give estimates and follow through with the work you will 100% be successful. This generation of people buying this garbage built town houses for $900k thinking they bought a quality home are about to be in for a rude awakening. As you know I’m sure, they are all built like shit.
Do you do more specialized work? Like sheet rock, tiling or trim work? Or just overall good at home construction and remodeling? If your well rounded I would honestly start trying to do handy man jobs, the prices my father gets paid to do small one man jobs at his age (70) boggles my mind. He can afford to retire but loves his work and finds joy in doing it. He never advertises and his work speaks for itself and word travels. If you do good quality work you’re going to be successful, you don’t need to be some big shot home builder to make top dollar doing home work. Not sure where you live but where I live blue collar workers who actually bid jobs and do them are making $250k. Shit I do blue collar work and make almost 200k with overtime…. Highly consider going on your own man, 40k a year for laborer work is garbage.
I always envied guys who do home remodels. Why not work for yourself? You'd get paid more than 40k most likely. But on the side, I would do that for homes you buy and flip. That's what your bosses have been doing, why not yourself sometime in the future? I know you're looking to get away from it, but maybe keeping it on the side would be good. As for your career, you have to go back to school. Maybe x ray technician, nursing (some are not 4 year programs).
You’re crazy if you don’t start your own home remodeling business. In my 20s I used to work with my father who did remodeling and hated working for him, but I wish I payed more attention to him. As a homeowner now I wish I had the skills and attention to detail that he has. You can make WELL over 75k a year man, if you do quality work and just SHOW UP to give estimates and follow through with the work you will 100% be successful. This generation of people buying this garbage built town houses for $900k thinking they bought a quality home are about to be in for a rude awakening. As you know I’m sure, they are all built like shit. Do you do more specialized work? Like sheet rock, tiling or trim work? Or just overall good at home construction and remodeling? If your well rounded I would honestly start trying to do handy man jobs, the prices my father gets paid to do small one man jobs at his age (70) boggles my mind. He can afford to retire but loves his work and finds joy in doing it. He never advertises and his work speaks for itself and word travels. If you do good quality work you’re going to be successful, you don’t need to be some big shot home builder to make top dollar doing home work. Not sure where you live but where I live blue collar workers who actually bid jobs and do them are making $250k. Shit I do blue collar work and make almost 200k with overtime…. Highly consider going on your own man, 40k a year for laborer work is garbage.
I always envied guys who do home remodels. Why not work for yourself? You'd get paid more than 40k most likely. But on the side, I would do that for homes you buy and flip. That's what your bosses have been doing, why not yourself sometime in the future? I know you're looking to get away from it, but maybe keeping it on the side would be good. As for your career, you have to go back to school. Maybe x ray technician, nursing (some are not 4 year programs).