There's a massive undersupply of trade workers in Quebec, how funny is that... But people want the nice cozy office job where they'll browse Reddit most of their day or be allowed to work from home and then they cry when they realise that these jobs are filled up.

I went to university planning to be a college teacher, when I realised that every college will receive about 300 applications in the first day they open a teacher job I turned around and figured I needed to find something else to do in a field where I wouldn't be competing with thousands of applicants, that's how you end up with a good job, fill a gap where there's one.

My colleague's son started 4 years ago for a window maker and now he's making 32$/h, fully insured, part of a union and all that jazz, his brother followed him two years later because he realised he would be crazy not to...

Plenty of tradesmen work into their 60s, my grandfather retired at 65 and had been a carpenter all his life and the job was way harder when they had to do everything by hand!