Had to pick between a steady city job and moving rural for a trade gig 8 years ago
I was working a desk job in Omaha making $38k a year, but a buddy offered me a spot in his construction crew up in a small town. I chose the rural move because I was tired of staring at a screen all day. After six months of framing houses and learning on the job, I caught on with a local contractor and now I run my own crew. The pay topped out around $55k eventually, but the real win was not hating every morning. Anyone else make a big geographic shift for work and have it work out different than you figured?