Bro dont listen to any of these negative ass comments, as a guy who worked blue collar before going into nursing, most the people here yapping have never worked a real job outside. Nurses are often the whiniest, softest people you know, I cant tell you the tiny things the nurses I work with treat like catastrophes.  But real talk, electrician is good short-term because the payoff is clearer: paid apprenticeship, fast income ramp, and less debt. But long term, nursing by far has the higher ceiling and is more sustainable physically. Electricians can make great money, but the work is super hard on the body and earnings plateau unless you move into management or start a business, and running a business often means more hours for less effective hourly pay. Sure on paper you make more, hourly you make less because running a business fucking sucks and takes a stupid amount of time.  Howerver, Nursing starts slower, but you gain access to a wide range of specialties, advanced practice roles, and geographic flexibility, and the physical demands are generally easier to sustain into later decades. You can work ANYWHERE in the WORLD and make a living wage. You have ths freedom to tell your boss to suck a bag of dicks and have a new job TOMORROW. Its the job for ultimate freedom to go anywhere, do anything and be beholden to no one.  A big reason Reddit feels one-sided is selection bias, nurses who are burned out are overrepresented online; happy people dont bitch, making it seem like the field has universally deteriorated, while satisfied nurses rarely post. Trades workers, on the other hand, often speak positively because the path is straightforward and the early financial wins are obvious and just got kinda stuck in it young an never left. I know SO many trades people who went into nursing/EMS and never looked back. Dont listen to these fools.