So being laid off, moving from Denver to San Antonio, I find myself unemployed (I do desktop support/jr. systems admin stuff) and jobs here are scarce. Now, I am real good at what I do, and I don't come across as a creepy whackjob when I interview, so I am considering a possible career change. In the past, I've gotten the job I interviewed for except ONE time.
Alas, I am thinking of skilled trades. The oil business maybe? I like making money and the more I make, the quicker I can work to relieve boredom as opposed to I-have-to-pay-bills.
Electrician? I do have a bit of a fear of zapping myself, but new construction electrical would be relatively safe. :) Plumbing?
I am pretty handy with mechanical things and fix my own cars/motorcycles, wire my own home (network and electrical) and do my own plumbing, so I think it would be a crappy slave-position for a year until I can show that I'm not useless. It would also be nice to do real work with real physical results instead of a keyboard jockey.
I would love some sort of 2-weeks-on and 2-weeks-off deal like the oil guys tend to do, and if I were off-shore, there's a per-diem too. It would suck to be away from home, but making good money on 6 months effective work would be great.
Ideas? Working remotely would be ok too, or anything else off the wall and/or interesting...