If I knew how to install or repair air conditioning, I would absolutely want to go to work for a heating and cooling company in my area
Have you observed signs all over your hometowns saying Help Wanted or Now Hiring? If not, I know your neighborhood is in the minority, but one group I have learned is desperate for skilled labor is the heating and cooling companies in my city. The two of us use the air conditioning nearly all year, or at least for the vast majority of the year, because we live in the southeastern portion of the country where it is tepid plus humid most of the time. That means the air conditioning companies stay rather busy. Not only that, they also need to get people who entirely know what they are doing. If you are the AC guy who comes out to somebody’s house, if it takes you forever to fix the problem, you are going to lose clients because a better air conditioning professional could have done two jobs in the time it took him to do a single one. It’s not just the heating and A/C companies that need skilled labor, either. Just about any company that needs a tradesperson or a person who can go beyond just modest high school skills is now looking for qualified help. Not only that, just about everywhere is hiring around here. Everything from sandwich artists at the local sub shops to executive supervisors of associations all need help. If I knew how to install or repair air conditioning, I would absolutely want to go to work for a heating and cooling company in my area. I am sure that the heating and A/C professionals get treated fairly around here, but of course they do have to work hard. I often wish that I would have learned a skill like heating and A/C when I was younger instead of getting a darn English degree, which is essentially useless.