Is 30 Too Old To Be A Carpenter

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Is 30 too old to be a carpenter. Experience and education will give you the opportunity to make more up to 69000 a year. I just want to take a moment to give a really big thanks to everyone for responding. Im a bit younger mid-twenties.

This may mean that you have another 27 or 28 years of work until you get any support from the state. Compare the job duties education job growth and pay of carpenters with similar occupations. 30 Jan 2013 340AM.

Carpentry is not the best trade to learn IMHO there are heaps of them and its hard on the body as you get older. Its also a good idea. The median annual wage for carpenters was 49520 in May 2020.

The median annual wage for carpenters is 49520. The median wage is the wage at which half the workers in an occupation earned more than that amount and half earned less. Before you complete your apprenticeship you will make less than this.

A career in carpentry begins after acquiring a degree or certificate. Im forty-one years old and Ive been working as a carpenter of some sort since about 1990 when I began by helping my neighbor build decks on weekends and during the summer. I have been searching now for well over 2 years to get myself into the trade but have had no luck in finding an employer or somebody who will take me on as self employed so i can learn the trade that im studying at night college to give me the onsite experince i really need.

He applied for conscientious objector status during the Vietnam War. It may be a different situation here because there is not a steady stream of 19yos entering the trades. Youre no longer the fresh-faced 21-year-old that pushed and pushed to get you where you want to be and you cant stop thinking about packing it all in and trying a career change at 30.