Being a supervisor working on construction site

[mr sunshine]

There are all kinds of construction work what are you interested in?
Carpentry
Laborers
Cement Masons
Insulators
Iron workers
Pipe Fitters
Steam Fitters
Plumbers
Boilermakers
Operators Engineers
Elevators installers
Gazers
Electricians
Line Men
Residential Construction
Sheet Metal / HVAC
I would suggest that you look at your interests research each field of construction (each one has its own + or -) then go through their apprenticeship program learn the trade. After you become a journeyman take what ever classes the company or unions offer learn all you can from your trade while taking outside classes that will further you knowledge within that trade as you move up in the company or trade union in to supervisory position.

He's only interested in being the supervisor.

 

[whitebb2727]

In my trade a foremans get $2.50/hour over scale. Is $2.50 more a lot of money?

No, but scale pay is.

 

[dbkick]

In the hvac field you can't even test for journeyman without putting 5k hours in the field and then passing a test on code which covers a lot of things you'll more than likely never touch in those 5k hours you put in before you're allowed to test , and even then failure rate is high. A decade or so ago all you had to do was have that 5k hours in the field , a couple hundred bucks and your signature and you were licensed.

 

[tangerinegreen555]

He's only interested in being the supervisor.

Where I worked, the supervisors made less, had medical insurance with higher co-pays and deductables, and no union protection at all...

And every fucking time they had a bad quarter...they fired a bunch of them and made other supers do their jobs...

They were the shitty jobs...and they took all the shit when we got mad at them and fucked off for the day...

 

[redi jedi]

With the way the construction industry is going, if you are skilled at what you do, your too valuable to promote. Skilled hands are in short supply these days. Everybody wants the cushy job...

 

[Six9]

He's only interested in being the supervisor.