Way ahead of you. I technically work for the government doing conservation on historic monuments. Tidy pension, salary wage, not pressed hard, and possibly moving into a management position soon. I miss the outside world, and the sedentary pace here fucks me off, but it’s well easier on my body.

The thing with apprentices is absolutely real. We just had an apprentice who has essentially fired himself. He’s got talent, if he wasn’t so up his own ass with entitlement and had an actual work ethic, he could be the real McCoy. And that’s around half the apprentices I’ve dealt with. I’d love to blame it on the youth and lack of gumption or whatever, but it’s just people not wanting to work hard…