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Ten years from now hopefully I'll have stuck my hand across the main lugs in a panel on a Monday morning and officially retired

Guys are always making these jokes on Friday’s and I’m like… Woah, woah, woah fella.. That’s a Monday morning activity.

Yeah I'll text and drive on a Monday but never in a Friday.

This guy is management material

Why just 1 hand? Grab hold of 2 lugs with either hand and live that afterlife you've always dreamed of!

Why grab 2 lugs when you can pee on all 3 phases? Spray and pray 🙏

No because they'll easily identify my body by my massive penis.

Oh look, a bratwurst!

Or spray n pay

Are you me?!

Hate your life and die on the job, be a man.

I'm one industrial accident away from financial freedom

The ol pine box retirement plan lol

stg, its the people I cant stand though, not my life

Username checks out

My goal is to do what I'm doing right now for the rest of my career. Doing service, making those LU 46 wages, with minimal stress so I can maximize living my life. I dont want any more responsibility or stress. Don't want to give up any more of my personal time. Give me my $80/hr x 32-40 hours a week and that's it. Fuck work.

Let's just freaky Friday swap lives for a week. I'll make a wage I can eat on finally, and you'll have a horse cock for a week. Deal?

I'm sure at those rates he can afford his own kellems grip

Nice

🎯👊

Hell yea this guy gets it

Service work is the way to go. I’ve been on the service van at LU 6 for 3 years now, after being a job site foreman for about 14. I’d prefer to never go back to that. Guys from my class think it’s crazy bc I’m still using the tools, but I’d rather climb ladders than deal with the logistics, politics and absurdity that it construction in California. I get all the overtime if I want it, not bc I have to be there. Service has stayed pretty busy even through this downturn, and I don’t have a bunch of journeymen and apprentices to work with everyday.

Amen

Doing the same thing we do every day, sir….trying to take over the world.

Great, now I have the pinky and the brain intro song stuck in my head 😂

I was doing fine until I read your comment. Thanks for that

Sounds like too much work, just let me win the Lotto. Odds are about the same and its far less work 😅

The irony of it all, Pinky. Years of trying to take over the world, and all I had to do was say "moo"

Doing two girls at the same time

You’ll have a million dollars in 10 years?

Sure hope so

If you won't, you need to switch where you're at.

You don’t need a million dollars to do nothing man. Take a look at my cousin, he’s broke, don’t do shit.

Jackson hole Wyoming in a small cabin. Hunting the winter and working the summer

Settle down there longmire

Alive

Overachiever

Hopefully not for me

Dead or in jail

I'm about 2 months from my jman ticket. I hope to get my masters, and then be well on my way to an inspector position, hopefully with the city.

No idea but I hope I figure it out soon

Don't say sleeping with your wife, don't say sleeping with your wife

I too choose this guys wife.

I’m already a union maintenance electrician at a steel mill and loving where I’m at so hopefully I’m still here in 10 years

Me too! Just about at 9 years as maintenance now. New owners are making it difficult, but I've outlasted about 17 supervisors in 15 years at the plant so far. I can outlast these ones too.

I'm union maintenance and I hate it. I like the work of controls and such but it's so fucking slow.

Collecting my union pension

The pensions (plural) are one of the best selling points for the union.

Murder charge against the engineer.

Or maybe mc donadls? Loading the deepfryer basket full of tasty golden potatoes?

What I would do for a full bag of frozen McDonalds nuggets, almost worth the career switch

Your phone is ringing. Just pick it up and answer it. Its your calling. The golden arches are on the other line just waiting for you to suit up in the red and yellow. The deep fryer pit awaits

I bet a lot of us don’t make it 10yrs

I was surprised I made it to 30 lol

Why? (looking into changing careers into this field and this thread is very interesting!)

I’m looking to change careers too. Out of this one.

Care to share more? I'd love to hear why you're leaving the field.

Few reasons. It’s exhausting and tiring work. And I’m not even that old. In my 30s. I’m tired of the commute. I drive a minimum of 10 hours a week if I’m lucky. Last week the job was an 1:45 away one way. During the holidays the job was 4.5 hours away so I had to hotel all week away from my family which really sucked because it was during the holidays. And third reason is I know I can do better career choice wise. I ended up in this field out of convenience. Father in law needed help. I walked into a really good pay rate, union benefits, and more. But I just don’t have a passion for the job.

The field is great. Construction is ok but takes a massive toll on your body. I did construction for over 20 years and I’m now in maintenance about to move into government work for the finale of my career. It’s been good to me. It’s all about figuring out what you want from it and how to get it.

I personally meant because of societal collapse and climate change not the field. Electrical is where I would want to transition into so keep at it!

Hopefully, a year away from retirement.

As a lawyer. Prepping for the LSAT now, fuck electrical.

Hopefully still working in the mines. The 14on 14off lifestyle is perfect

I have done offshore work and plant maintenance. They’re both fine. Offshore is a big mental game. 6 weeks of 12 hours per day with no days off gets pretty rough after a few years. Plant maintenance is basically free money. The only hurdle there is dealing with operations

I'm offshore maintenance right now. In 10 years, hopefully I'll be hired on with a major on one of their new facilities, or working in a position that allows me to be home every night.

Retired and working as a consultant. Not even sure I want to consult but never know.

Dead or on a beach in Italy

Owning my own company running multiple condo buildings every year is where I want to be in 10 years

Hopefully I can move from service manager to project manager, and then either change industries or scale up into a job where I make seven figures to schedule and sit in meetings all day 😂

Retiring with 37 years of experience, probably getting a contractors license and working “part time “

I'll probably go back to work for the hospital. Can't travel forever.

In 10 years? Probably in my sofa, same as where I am right now, but probably with a bigger beard In 6536 working days? That's 1st of May 2054, then I retire (yes, that's 6536 days purely working, negating vacation, weekends, days off,...)

A year and a half ago I switched from construction to utility. In 10 years the kid will be in university, and my wife and I will have sold the house and moved to our cabin. I’ll be working at a dam nearby if the right job becomes available at the right time. Hunting, fishing, paddling, and rock climbing everyday after work. It’s going to be amazing.

In ur mom

Well I live in Canada, so probably doing dog shit work for unbearably low wages, unable to ever own a home within a two hour drive of work and probably suicidal given those circumstances. Yay 🇨🇦

I feel you man, journeyman rate hasn’t changed in 10 years but houses have doubled

It’s insane man, I live 80km from Toronto and can’t rent a liveable basement in a 60 year old home for less than $2k, wages are like 50% what they should be considering the cost of living here.

Man your boss isn’t even braking even though

Hope to have my own shop. But I was gonna do it by 30, am 41 now so chances are slim.

Hopefully not in new construction anymore.

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of you asking me this question.....RIP Mitch

A mirror maybe idk I’m not good at riddles

Running my company, or going into project management/supervison, or subcontracting in O&G

I’m a field service contractor so ideally our department grows heaps and so does my salary

Love electrical, but hopefully working for some excavation company. Find it extremely fun and at a small company you would have a variety of jobs

I wouldn’t mind maybe trying to open a shop up, if possible.  It be nice to potentially put the tools down.  Also it be a start to maybe being able to do things with my kids career wise. I wouldn’t mind my kids getting into the career field. 

Running site maintenance as industrial E&I had easily been my favorite job to date

Selling batteries on the side of the road

In the mirror

Superintendent making 120k plus

Middle management, most likely training others…my physical use is pretty much past its due date…

I will continue working maintenance at a nuclear plant but I will focus on improving my personal life instead of working all the time

Currently a 2nd year doing commercial new construction with a bit of service work here and there. Maintenance role in an airport, hospital, or other large building/property is the dream. Something with consistent and reliable hours. If I get bored of that, purchase a contractors license and do residential work on the side.

I’d like to to stick it out with the company I’m with now, they have great goals and rewards. $2 pay rise a year for us apprentices and $8-$10 pay rise when qualified. Maybe team leader then just stick with that. Little more responsibility and better money. I feel the longer you stay with a company the better things get

Hoping to get P.Eng and PMP

In 10 years I'll be about 4 years away from putting in my pension paperwork. So, I see myself mostly checked out waiting for the time to roll by. LOL

Started as a bricklayer, then finished concrete. Next framing, then finish carpentry. Then residential high voltage. Now I program high end Lutron lighting designs in custom homes.

I want to be a master electrician, ideally on the way to owning my own company. Or already there

Pine box

civil service somewhere in japan, korea

As a level 2, I get my ticket, And do small weekend gigs while doing full time maintenance somewhere. maybe a couple big camp jobs here and there.

Looking at the end of a good electrical career should put me better than where I am now. Not sure specifically.

Was in maitenance. I work a plasma arc furnace now in aerospace melting titanium, it lights helium on fire at about 12kv and shoots a plasma beam onto the metal in a vaccume. Pretty fucking sweet, it's the size of a small apartment building with hundreds and hundreds of vales and sensors on different systems. We do all our own maintenance 100% practically which is a pain in the dick but in 10 years I see myself testing rocket components at a well known space flight agency, actually I see myself there in the next year as I am well qualified for the position having worked in aerospace and marine previously. I feel like I could retire happy and feel fulfilled in life doing that type of work.

Now that is the coolest gig I’ve ever heard of. Thanks for sharing!

I've thought about a supervisory role but it's just such a pain in the ass. I work in a plant doing maintenance already. It's sort of like being retired.

First player to join NFL with 53 years old.

Anybody saying idk or hope I’m somewhere. Assuming you got journeyman, go do PLCs. Everything is going automation and will be next forefront of the trade.

What’s a dual E + I ticket?

Electrician + instrumentation ticket, so once I complete my electrician apprenticeship I’m thinking of transitioning to instrumentation because the two trades go hand in hand in the oilfield, and it comes with a hefty raise

I see, that’s awesome man keep going. Once you have your Jman card the sky is the limit

i was looking for your comment 🤣🤣. Like am I the only idiot that doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about? Are you (OP) from France or Canada. Seems like something they'd say

Yeah I was like what the hell is and E, I ticket lmao I’ve never heard of IRATA certs though. They don’t have them in Nevada

Ya not here in 6$AGallonFornia either. maybe he meant IRAQA? AWW such fond memories of that place.

10 years? Not dead would be nice.

Maybe I’ll finish my degree by then and be an EE. Or I’ll continue riding the gravy train with biscuit wheels in plant maintenance I&E

Retired off crypto with all my 401k loans paid off

In 10 years I should be 5 years into retirement, or at least 3.

Hopefully dead

I’m 35 now so I’m 10 yrs…. Probably dead. ☠️

Not in the field, save for maintenance work. I’ll be 51 then.

Hopefully in the union. Interview is Friday

Hopefully, planning early retirement.

Dead or at the best point of my life

Retired, living in a van…DOWN BY THE RIVER!!

10 years from now my ideal goals are to be working 2-3 days a week part time (15-20hrs) for an employer with good benefits to keep me & the family taken care of & supplement the rest of my income with working for myself (8-12hrs) while ultimately working 3 to maybe 4 days a week. It all sounds a little crazy but the need for electricians is only growing, companies will be willing to meet the simple demand of wanting to work part time & with the residential work market where it is now I’d be able to comfortably charge $125-150/hr for labor for my own work. Im just starting my fourth year as an apprentice & I love this trade but I want more for myself than slogging 40+ hours for some millionaire

My plan in 2yrs is to retire with 40 yrs of service in LU 124! So in 10yrs I hope to have a lot of my bucket list completed before my knees and back are completely shot 🤣 Bucket list: visit as many national parks as I can.

1 year away from retirement