I’m an Electrician With a Six-Figure Salary — 3 Reasons I Left Office Life
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Pulling a high income doesn’t require you to stay chained to a desk 50 hours a week. And while you might not go to movie premieres, opportunities to earn on your feet aren’t limited to people living big-star dreams in sports and entertainment. Just ask Jordan Benjamin.
Benjamin is the president at Done Rite Services, a family-owned business providing HVAC installation, plumbing repairs and electrical services. Previously earning six figures working in financial securities, Benjamin chose to leave the office life for good.
As an electrician, his income is comparable, but the job offers advantages that his old career can’t. Here are three reasons why he left the office life behind.
Versatility
After moving to a new city, Benjamin was having trouble finding a job in financial securities.
“The specific type of work I had been doing was less common in my new location and so I found that trade work was available anywhere I happened to move,” he said.
As an essential worker, Benjamin’s current services are in demand absolutely everywhere. And since his income remained comparable, the career pivot was just common sense.
Variety
Office jobs can feel repetitive and are, by nature, stationary. As a technician, Benjamin found it much more interesting to move around to different environments than to sit in the same office all day long. Andrew Roughley, a fellow electrician and director at D.R. Electrical shares that opinion.
“What keeps me in it is the variety,” he said, “as one day you could be wiring a new build estate and the next you’re fault-finding in a listed building or fitting EV chargers for a business. You’re out and about meeting people, which I enjoy.”
Job Security
The final reason Benjamin has never gone back to the office is because his electrical work, unlike his white-collar, office job, is AI-resistant. Since being a technician requires physical dexterity and places him in unpredictable environments, a computer cannot easily replace him.
The Austin Career Institute found that AI may actually complement and enhance electricians’ work, a collaboration that could lead to increased productivity. This provides Benjamin a good deal of security and optimism in an increasingly unpredictable world.
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