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'My life is a million times better': A man who quit his desk job to be an electrician shares his takeaways from the switch

Unhappy with his career, Dustin Snyder left his office job to become an electrician. He shared key …

Christine Ji   


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I floundered in white-collar jobs until I found my calling as an electrician in my 40s

Rachel Hoobing worked white-collar jobs after going to college, but switched to a trade in her 40s.

Ella Hopkins   


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She grew up in Ukraine, studied accounting, and joined the army. But since Russia invaded, she did a hard career pivot — twice.

The war has created a big need for blue-collar workers in Ukraine. Women, like 32-year-old Yuliia K…

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She's a 27-year-old electrician and she makes $200,000 a year off social-media posts about her job

Since 2022, Lexis Czumak-Abreu has amassed 2.2 million followers, who watch her work as an electric…

Shubhangi Goel   


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From construction workers to electricians, these are the infrastructure jobs set to boom in the next few years

Insider looked at some construction, housing, and infrastructure jobs that have projected employmen…

Madison Hoff   


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I went to pre-med school, wanting to be a surgeon. I became an electrician instead and have no regrets.

An electrician shared why she chose that career instead of becoming a doctor after studying pre-med.

Ella Hopkins   


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Consider getting trained to become an electrician — and fast

As the US races to meet green energy targets, it needs tens of thousands of electricians that will …

Catherine Boudreau   


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I got my first job by giving away home-cooked breakfast with my resumé. I was 15 at the time.

The 15-year-old's ingenious approach meant that he was getting paid before any of this classmates. …

Jane Ridley   


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The 10 highest-paying blue-collar construction jobs in the US

The highest-paying blue-collar construction job in the US earns about $100,000 annually, according …

John Towfighi   


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Welcome to the red-hot blue-collar job boom

Walmart and UPS offer six-figure salaries and lucrative benefits. White-collar workers, meanwhile, …

Juliana Kaplan   


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AI could force 12 million workers to switch jobs in coming years, causing unprecedented competition

Workers will need to retrain or skill up to stay competitive in the job market in coming years, lab…

Jennifer Sor   


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I'm an electrician in Oklahoma, where snowstorms rarely hit but can be dangerous. Here's what my job is like.

Clayton Helvy says he worked from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Tuesday to fix a burned-out utility pole tha…

Kristi Eaton   


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A federal climate jobs program could hire 20,000 workers this year

The American Climate Corps is modeled after a New Deal-era program that hired millions of men to co…

Catherine Boudreau   


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I quit my day job at 29 by investing in real estate. I'm now a stay-at-home dad building generational wealth for my kids.

At 30, Matt Krueger is a stay-at-home dad thanks to his real estate investments. He first started h…

Charissa Cheong   


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AI models like GPT-4o could give some blue-collar jobs a leg-up and force white-collar workers to adapt

OpenAI's new multimodal model could help plumbers and electricians do their jobs more effectively, …

Erin Snodgrass   


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The labor shortage may have an old-fashioned solution: carpenters, electricians, and other trades are good jobs that make workers happy

The skilled trades have a labor shortage, too, but the work is high-paying and popular. Experts say…

Madison Hoff   


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Sen. Amy Klobuchar says 'we need kids to go into jobs where we have shortages' like healthcare workers, plumbers, electricians

"We don't have a shortage of marketing degrees," Klobuchar said. "We have a shortage of plumbers, e…

Katie Balevic   


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Get trained to be an electrician and get paid as much as an engineer

Indians are training themselves to not just become doctors, engineers and data scientists. A large …

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Bet your career on these 6 climate jobs in 2024 — many pay well and have an average salary of more than $90,000

Many of the fastest-growing climate jobs pay well and have an average salary of more than $90,000. …

Catherine Boudreau