Carpenter Training Michigan

adam5557

Hey guys i am 16 and am currently in a carpenter hands on training at my school which i just started. It is 3 classes a day everyday. I am wondering how i can go about obtaining a job in construction and also learn a lot more while getting paid. I have heard about apprenticeships if you join a union. Are carpentry unions hard to get into and was wondering if you guys have any ideas for me?thank you

Peladu

For some reason, as soon as I read you were 16, I started to read a lot faster, you know, like you were talking faster. You just got your drivers license, and you are thinking about this. Man when I was 16 the only thing I would think about had either blonde, brown or red hair. Honestly, not so much the red hair, but you understand.

Listen, you will most likely live longer life if you actually went to college and got a degree and used your head and not your legs, back, knees and all of the other places I had ice on last week. But if you are anything like I was you already know it all and have determined that you wanna do Carpentry.

But let me ask you this, do you want to be a carpenter? You see, I love being a carpenter and the things that I can do with my hands. But also I often say that I shoulda been an electrician. Better pay, less nonsense and more of a chance to start a fire. That last statement about fire was a joke, you young whipper snapper you. Carpenters do the most work and are the least paid.

I did the Carpenters Union gig....is it worth your while? hell yea it is, I have a pension waiting for me should I live to be that old. If you are gonna do it, do it right, learn from a Union shop. And don;t just learn the residential side, learn the commercial side too.

But if I were able to reverse my age back to the ripe age of 16, I would hit the books, and hit them hard...I was always good with numbers so I would have gone into the financial industry, after college and an MBA. But the one thing that I can never see changing would be the ever quest to find the next blonde or brunette.

Good luck kid, for the sake of your body, I hope you decide to go to college. But most 16 year olds already know everything. Look at it this way, I am not your parent and not a friend, yet I still will tell you to stay in school, and hunt the blondes, they are more fun that's no lie.

Peladu

Since you are a minor I did not want to tell you about the SC2C number.

adam5557

hahah and can you give me a hint on what that is...also Do i have a shot in actually getting in a union or is there no work.thanks

Mr. D

sounds like the kind of enthusiasm i'm looking for. look me up if you need a job next summer. don't know where you are in MI. but i'm in the pinky finger area.

Peladu

Something about this post suddenly reminded me of John Wayne Gacy

747

Something about this post suddenly reminded me of John Wayne Gacy

no its called the little pinky finger. Its great fishing in michigan. If memory serves me correct separating Lake Michigan and Grand Traverse Bay. There are like log cabins you can rent for weekend fishing. I can't remember the county its in though. But i think i'm correct.

Mr. D is my memory on the money above.

RYANINMICHIGAN

Big money in the "pinkey" that is for sure. I am with the troll on this one. Go to collage learn, learn,learn, major in finance minor in construction tech. then if you want to be a carpenter you are miles ahead of anyone learning the trade out of high school. That is if you want to be a business man in the construction ind. If you want to be a drunken laborer the rest of your probably short life then go right into it after highschool, heck quit school start now. See what I am saying? You can survive this biss if you are smarter then others. Then you higher and fire the drunk laborers.

4319hendrie

Just an opinion from someone pretty close to your situation. Im 19, Im in college, getting a business degree. Im taking carprenty classes, and im also working, I want to be a GC someday. Anyway heres my point, ive been workin now for a few years, i dont just do carpentry, but ill say this much. Its always fun, and i enjoy doing it, but the guys are right about icing things down once and a while, its hard work, and the way the labor market is going to be for us, things are gonna be real differant then they are for guys like peladu. Listen to Ryan, get some college under ur belt, it cant hurt, learn a trade and go from there.

PS. And listen to these guys, they really know what there talking about.

Mr. D

747 that's leelanau county you're thinking of. i just got off the river caught about 12 salmon. now I gotta go replace some logs on one of those cabins your speaking of.

durham

i gotta agree with the "old timers" here.
got the heatpad on my back as i type this.
should have stayed in school longer. do you want to be paid for what you know , or what you can do? I recommend you learn the business of construction. Worst case , become a carpenter later.
If this is not for you, then join the carpenter's union asap. with that many years of service you could retire at age 55, with full pension.
buy the best tools , and get a good chiropractor!