>>2985343
>a very in-demand trade that pays great
True, it's very hard work.
>low barrier to entry?
Filled with alcoholic convicts who will steal your tools.

>>2985343
I'd barely consider it a trade.

>>2985343
>shop teacher today
>What do you guys think?
you need to be 18 to post here

>>2985343
Only if your a bad addict, dry wall is how addicts pay for those addictions, its one of those you drywall to drink and drug/ you drink and drug to drywall catch 22 life situations

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>>2985343
>drywall
Just get your CDL at a community college (you can use a pell grant) then apply for a lineman apprenticeship.

lots of fumes to deal with, but you get to wear stilts
in florida it's all cheap mexican labor. you never see a white guy on a drywall crew
however a handiman drywall repair after plumbing servicemen do a repipe or something like that
that pays and you'll get a white guy

>>2985343
Flooded with illegals doing the work sub minimum wage

Best drywall story I have was from a job I did for a big country club. Site supervisor was a huge asshole, wouldn’t let anyone park their van for more than 60 seconds to unload it. It was an upstairs 30 room add in hotel villa thing so the club was still in operation and they must have brought this guy in to keep the members happy. But the guy was such a bastard that it had the opposite effect. Once you make a few dozen tradesmen hate you good luck ever getting the job finished or done right. Dude was obsessed with trying to engineer shit on the fly himself so he was trying to tell the drywall guys from El Salvador to make this awkward access for me to finish running linesets. Drywall go barely spoke English and even he was able to communicate to site supervisor that it was just retarded and we can work around each other no access necessary. Well that fucked half the day up so when I’m talking my mile walk to the van where we had to park I see drywall dude in his Chevy s10, tallboy bullfight in lap, window down, lit Marb 27, and the road of the main drag to the country club beside him, filled with chicken bones he had tossed out at lunch, sitting there asleep. Site supervisor guy nearly had some kind of heart attach. Drywallers don’t give a fuck, it’s not a trade for smart people

>>2985343
Finishing pays 40 in my area with low CoL.

>>2985343
>>2985537
>Finishing
is the only thing worth paying for

>drywall guys lighting up their meth pipe
>JOSE GET THE STILTS, WE GOT A FUCKING JOB TO DO

>>2985389
ugliest birb to walk on two wings

i did the drywall in my garage
it was a lot of annoying work and it came out looking like shit

It's exhausting work but absolutely brain dead. If you're any good at it you can make some real bank with the right company or union work but if you're a retard drug addict who can't speak english you'll still have a stable job because I swear nothing short of murdering someone on the clock can get you fired from this line of work.

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If you want to make money in drywall start a drywall company. It's really not a skilled trade cause it's easy, but carpenters will probably fuck.you over in how they haven't installed blocking. I've done a lot of drywall over the years with full gutting and converting rentals. Always done it myself but next time around I'll sub the mudding and taping out cause that shit is a pain in the ass with the amount of sanding. Tip for drywall get yourself one of these to hang the ceiling. They're super cheap and work great. Situations where your ceiling is just over 8" I always mill a piece of 1/2" plywood (CDX not OSB) and screw it to the studs on the floor you'll be able to just lay it on that plywood and screw the drywall in without holding it up

>>2985933
So that lift only goes to exactly 8' height and not to 8'-1/2"?

>>2985369
It is a carpentry subtrade because of the need to install blocking.

>>2985941
No they go higher than 8'

>>2985933
>with the amount of sanding
Two coats, no sand

is drywall just a bunch of boards stuck to a skeleton like dimensional lumber framing
what kinda hardware store would sell these gypsum boards? same one that stocks plywood etc?

>>2986393
Gyp board is just trade lingo for drywall. Gypsum is chalk, fuck what google says
>While the chalk used on blackboards is often made from gypsum, this does not mean that gypsum itself is chalk.
Drywall is chalk sandwiched between two pieces of paper. It's easy to form interior walls and make smooth for paint.
Plaster and render methods need lath backing and multiple full coats. It's a lot of work to skim every single inch of wall. Drywall you only have to hit the seams and holes.

>>2985343
My mother did it for a couple of years in the 80's.

>>2986433
yeah but who would stock these gay boards the cement and rebar place or the plyboard place or the stone and tile place

>>2986447
Home cheapo, Blowe's or similar

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>>2986447
Most hardware stores have them. Any builder supply or yard can drop full bunks on a flatbed for you.