A lot of trade unions will take you on as an apprentice if you want to get in on construction. They teach you the trade, they pay you, and you get on the job experience.
IBEW has an apprenticeship program for electricians. I even hear radio ads for it every now and then.
http://www.ibew.org/Tools/Local-Union-Directory
The UBC affiliated union in my area has a millwright apprenticeship program. You might look and see if there's a Carpenters Union with a program in your area
https://staging.carpenters.org/regional-council/
UA represents a pretty wide range of trades workers, plumbers, pipefitters, welders, and HVAC technicians, but not every local will have an apprenticeship program for all trades. Look into the local in your area for more info.
http://www.ua.org/locals#
There was one more I was thinking of, but it's slipped my mind. Hopefully you can find something you like. If you had a different trade in mind let me know and I might be able to find something out.
That makes sense. Maybe more applicable if you have more people or you have one person you work with who you can trust, but you might be interested in the works of Stafford Beer (yeah that's his name). A lot of what he did was around organizations and systems but a lot of it has applicability to co-op type organizations. Like how to run an organization without heirarchy. His work is pretty technical so I'd also recommend any of the episodes of the podcast General Intellect Unit that cover him as well as their one about the Viable System Model which is indirectly about him.
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A lot of trade unions will take you on as an apprentice if you want to get in on construction. They teach you the trade, they pay you, and you get on the job experience.
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IBEW has an apprenticeship program for electricians. I even hear radio ads for it every now and then.
http://www.ibew.org/Tools/Local-Union-Directory
The UBC affiliated union in my area has a millwright apprenticeship program. You might look and see if there's a Carpenters Union with a program in your area
https://staging.carpenters.org/regional-council/
UA represents a pretty wide range of trades workers, plumbers, pipefitters, welders, and HVAC technicians, but not every local will have an apprenticeship program for all trades. Look into the local in your area for more info.
http://www.ua.org/locals#
There was one more I was thinking of, but it's slipped my mind. Hopefully you can find something you like. If you had a different trade in mind let me know and I might be able to find something out.
I'm not really a "manager" but yeah being in charge of other people when there's no good reason to fucking sucks.
Well the good thing is that under a co-op, there's not really a manager unless they are democratically chosen to lead some aspect of the project.
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That makes sense. Maybe more applicable if you have more people or you have one person you work with who you can trust, but you might be interested in the works of Stafford Beer (yeah that's his name). A lot of what he did was around organizations and systems but a lot of it has applicability to co-op type organizations. Like how to run an organization without heirarchy. His work is pretty technical so I'd also recommend any of the episodes of the podcast General Intellect Unit that cover him as well as their one about the Viable System Model which is indirectly about him.