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Your first five hires decide the next five years

Hire for the company you're about to be, not the one you're tired of running alone.

GuideTradesAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

Work Forty Years in the Trades Without Wrecking Your Body

The guys still working at sixty aren't lucky. They locked in a handful of habits early and never negotiated with them.

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GuideTradesWes DunbarSep 23, 20265 min

How to Get Hired Running Heavy Equipment

Excavators, dozers and haul trucks pay a real living without a diploma from anywhere. Here's the license order, the training paths, and what the yard actually looks for.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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Your Knees Are Not a Retirement Plan

Nobody's handing a self-employed electrician a gold watch at 65. Here's how to build the pension yourself, starting with this week's deposit.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

GuideTradesDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

The Tools a First-Year Apprentice Should Actually Buy

Skip the rolling box. Buy the twelve things you'll touch every day, spend where it counts, and let the company pay for the rest.

GuideTradesRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Union or Non-Union Trade Work and How to Actually Choose

Same trade, same skill, two completely different systems for getting paid and getting trained. Ask these questions before you sign anything.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideTradesAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

The Lineman Paycheck Is Real and So Is the Price

Six figures without a student loan, a Class A CDL, 7,000 hours of apprenticeship, and a job that will absolutely kill a careless man.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideTradesRay OkonkwoSep 23, 20266 min

Price the Job So You Actually Keep the Money

Busy and broke is a pricing problem, not a work problem. Do the overhead math, use the divisor, and stop bidding against the cheapest guy in town.

GuideTradesWes DunbarSep 23, 20266 min

Which Kind of Carpenter to Be and What Each One Pays

Framing, finish and cabinetry share a name and almost nothing else. Pick the lane before you spend a dollar on tools.

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GuideTradesAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

What It Actually Takes to Become a Plumber

Four or five years of logged hours, a state exam, and work nobody can ship overseas. The honest version, including the parts that stink.

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GuideTradesDean ShawSep 23, 20266 min

How to Become a Diesel Mechanic and What It Really Pays

The licensing, the apprenticeship routes, the tools worth buying first, and the hazards that put techs in the hospital.

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GuideTradesAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

HVAC Work Doesn't Stop When the Economy Does

Furnaces don't check the stock market before they quit in January. Here's how the licensing, the pay and the on-call nights actually work.

GuideTradesAde FisherSep 23, 20266 min

Welding Pays Well If You Chase the Right Certifications

The test that separates a $22-an-hour shop job from traveling pipe work takes about six hours and most guys fail it the first time.</title> <dek>The test that separates a shop job from traveling pipe work takes about six hours, and most guys fail it the first time.