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2129 sats \ 31 comments \ @redlight_pleb 27 Feb AskSN

Here’s a hypothetical scenario for SN:

You’ve been forced out of the profession you have done well in for 15 years and without the ability to find a new job within the same profession.

You’ve decided you want to do something practical with variety in each day, ideally with the outcome of being a sole contractor/small business within a new trade.

You can financially front/make up for the up to 3 year or so apprenticeship

If you had to completely start a profession anew; what Trade would you spend your time doing?

Welder / fitter? Refrigeration? Electrician?

What would provide you with satiation, job security, and ideally adds experience to working in Bitcoin related ventures.

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111 sats \ 2 replies \ @IamSINGLE 27 Feb

Chef! Is that an option. Cooking food is a trade will always be in demand.

19 sats \ 0 replies \ @sox 27 Feb

+1, I love cooking, that’s what I would do too

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Oh 100% chef is an option. I’m super wary of doing things that you “like” as a hobby - as a job. I enjoy cooking too - but doing it as your grind - high pressure and dealing with unhappy patrons.

Actually I think it was watching The Bear - tv show put me off!!

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @kruw 27 Feb

Electrician?

Working to introduce Bitcoin mining to people so they can heat their homes cheaper :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Yep along the same lines as my thinking. Trying to understand if refrigeration would make more sense for home integration mining as you’re working more often with heat exchange to different mediums?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Feb

That's what I was thinking.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @cryotosensei 27 Feb

I wanna be a decluttering expert like Marie Kondo

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Minimise and Feng Shui

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scroogey 27 Feb

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133 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 27 Feb

Carpenter. If I could choose, I'd do interior finishing. I'd make furniture in my spare time and charge bitcoin for it.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @johngribbin 27 Feb

My brother in law has "great hands". I tell him all the time to pack in the bs carpentry job and make high end furniture and sell it for bitcoin.

14 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Damn a based Bitcoin carpenter , doing intricate art for sats.

142 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Feb

Electrician

41 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Reckon you’re in the right ballpark, hands on without being grot- plumber style

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 27 Feb

Same. Easily the best trade to go into.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 28 Feb

I wud probably specialize in wilderness terrain navigation on foot and by canoe/raft, with air of ropes as needed. i wud become more skilled in first aid as well, such as trauma and accidental intoxication.

the usual urban adventures will become dangerous, full of zompires (zombie-vampires), whereas villages/suburban communities will become way too anxious and tightly knit, suspicious of all strangers.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jerrybature 27 Feb

Of course electrician.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 27 Feb

I'd do a "try before you buy" if at all possible.

In other words, I'd go find some people in the target professions, talk to them, and see if you could be there assistant for a couple days.

They'd be flattered, and you'd get some great information on what the real day-to-day work is like in the profession.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

I think this is truly the answer. All the reading and searching you want and you’ll have no idea til You’re in it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder 27 Feb

i think if i had to and was going to pick a trade, i would pick electrician, they get paid well, it's not usually as dirty as some of the other trades and i feel like there is a closer affinity with bitcoin, since it's kind of backed by electricity and maybe you could do work for btc mining company or something

i don't see much of an overlap with welding and btc tho lol

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @flat24 27 Feb

Occupational security: a concept that was handled in the 50s. Today that no longer exists.

50 or 100 years ago there happened to find a job or prepare yourself with skills and that you will work until the end of the days.

Today that does not apply. If today you do not have the ability to reinvent yourself and develop other skills is complicated.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

I beg to differ. If you are willing to be humble, re-engage the learner mindset , have daily gratitude - you can do anything

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 28 Feb

I think that what you mention is not related to the main issue, which was whether it is good or not to believe in "job security" today in 2025.

taking into account that the model of the employee who has a job for life is a burned-out model from a few decades ago.

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @SatsMate 27 Feb

Huh, great scenario you are outlining. I would say I would do something out in the oil field, be a trucker or work in a recycling center.

Just high-level things that I would like, I am not technical enough to do the refrigeration, AC, or electrician stuff. I also am not super good with my hands, unfortunately.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

I hear the oil side earns a good wicket - reckon it’ll be some hard graft out there! Honestly cruising around in a truck kind of seems like bliss

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SatsMate 27 Feb

Honestly cruising around in a truck kind of seems like bliss

Bingo, Just in the truck listening to bitcoin podcasts all day lmao

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @User21000000 27 Feb

Electrician or high voltage heavy machinery type electrician to do the electrical conversion of all heavy equipment that’s coming

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Oh good shout - high voltage is only going to be more needed. I am now doubtful that these heavy diesel vehicles will get converted, they’d be doubly big and heavy and have more downtime to charge!

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @User21000000 27 Feb

In the mining earthmoving industry being a diesel mechanic is going to be less and less needed as the machines go more and more electric

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @redlight_pleb OP 27 Feb

Interesting! Wonder if qualifying in it is the same as auto electrician - or more solar on wheels - being DC and all

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @User21000000 27 Feb

I think std auto e is different well it is in Aus . All the new caterpillar machines are starting to come out electric drive