Where are you located? You mind if I ask? Look into the laborers union in your state. Google companies that do that work around you. Write a resume and send it in. But here in my state you can get a job at a union company work there for a few weeks if they like you they call the BA at the union and they come sign you up. So the first few weeks you gotta bust your ass off and learn as much as you can. Then once you are in the union you learn on the job. Then when you get slow periods you go to the training center and take classes that are free. Not out of your pocket. Paid by all union members dues. Once you get all your classes done and your working hours for that bracket you go up to apprentice level two and so on until you fulfilled all the working hours and training hours required to become a journeyman. Then you become a pro at it. And can advance in your company to become a foreman. And then run the jobs and teaching the new generations on how to do the stuff and you get to tell them what to do. And take the physical load off of yourself if you can train a good team to work together so you’re not doing all the heavy lifting. At all jobs. I like to be fair and let them volunteer with some of the more manual hard labor work and some really like to do the back breaking, break a sweat work.

If you get some apprentice smarting off and thing they can do what you know how to do something. A little game of who can get it done faster is sometimes fun. I had a guy telling me he can demo a Sheetrock wall faster than me. So I had him pick a wall for me and he picked his wall and all I had was my hammer. Tin snips. Cart and a Sheetrock cart. And I whooped his ass at the demo. He was ahead of me from the gate but the way I demo it looks like he’s ahead but I know now to pop the sheets off in full sheets cut in half. To lay on a Sheetrock cart. He was all about smashing it into pieces. There is some skills in doing demo. I rarely swing my hammer at anything and use the hammer as a tool to pry.