Looking for a great career path that is transportable, offers variety, and is rewarding?
Jobs in construction ARE transportable. You can work in many countries around the world or in other states or territories.
Career Paths
Jobs in construction DO offer many career paths. You start as an apprentice, or study at TAFE or Uni, and then you can choose from diverse jobs from trades such as carpentry, bricklaying, and plumbing, through to estimating, building surveying, sales or project management.
Jobs in construction DO offer many career paths. You start as an apprentice, or study at TAFE or Uni, and then you can choose from diverse jobs from trades such as carpentry, bricklaying, and plumbing, through to estimating, building surveying, sales or project management.
There is plenty of variety available in construction jobs. There are residential, commercial, industrial, retail and civil construction jobs from small domestic works to major billion dollar projects to work on. You can also specialize in new home construction, renovations, fit-outs or supply.
Financial Stability
And jobs in construction ARE financially rewarding. Did you know that many of Australia’s young & wealthy got rich by starting in a trade? They then worked hard to build successful businesses.
BRW’s Young Rich (BRW, 27 October 2007) identified where some of the young rich (defined as 40 and under) started out and estimated their current wealth.
- Shane Wilkinson, then aged 35, worth $21 million, earned his fortune through property development after getting his builders license at the age of 22 in Melbourne.
- Jay McAlister, then 33 years old and worth $44 million, did an apprenticeship as a carpenter and started a commercial construction business early in his career.
- Mark Etherington, then 36, worth $40 million, did an apprenticeship and became a carpenter. He runs a building and maintenance service company, and has developed and owns commercial property.
- Chris Anderson, then 39, worth $60 million, also started as an apprentice carpenter and now runs property development and services businesses. He gets involved in charitable work too for Hero Australia.
- Frank Hargrave, worth $544 million, started as an electrician and now owns a chunk of the listed labour hire Skilled Group and still has his Electrical Trades Union membership.
Success
The list proves that you don’t have to invent a new technology, dominate a major sport or appear in Hollywood blockbusters to make it big financially at a young age. These successful tradespeople provided good service and made their businesses winners.
Also, there is an aging construction workforce. The average age of bricklayers for example is around 45. So young people will get heaps of opportunity to advance as people retire from the industry in the decades ahead.
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