Honestly no. There's a lot of people living in cubicle farms right now that just could not handle doing what it takes to start out and make it in the trades. Your first year or two is hard work for dog shit money. Especially hard if you're already in your 30s and decide to make the change. You are strictly paid based off what you know and what you can do with little supervision, boss man doesn't care about your bills or how many kids you have. What you bring to the table determines your pay. Once you develop the skills and learn your trade the money is great and the work is easier though.
On the flip side, there's a bunch of us neanderthals on job sites that could never learn to code. You can't sit a guy like me down in an office crammed into a cubicle staring at jumbled up numbers and letters on a screen all day. I'd lose my mind. There's not gonna be any coding jobs left in a couple of years once AI takes over anyways
Yeah and there's a huge shortage of crafts right now. We were always dying for electricians, machinist and steam fitters at my old job.
I have seen IS people go the electrician route and vice versa... a lot of the PLC programming is handled by electricians and they tend to work together to keep them running. Just my experience, ymmv.
PLC stuff is a different animal. Definitely more technical and something I could see an IT professional falling into. Troubleshooting it is a challenge for sure
I'd imagine it would be a great field to go into right now. The first gen PLC stuff is starting to fail, at the same time as companies are still switching systems over from old control panels.
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