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[quote=Anonymous]Skilled jobs like this pay well to begin with. The salaries, though, flatten out pretty quickly unless you move up into management. They also aren't jobs you can do for a whole career. Once a guy hits 50, being a plumber or cable installer gets harder and harder, as the years of heavy lifting and squeezing into tight spaces takes its toll. Most of the men I know who have gone this route have hit a physical wall in their 40s or 50s. Many women don't have the upper body strength to do this stuff, although some do. If my child were not academic, I might consider a path like this, but I would encourage him to move into management/ownership ASAP, even if that meant struggling through some business or accounting classes. [/quote]
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