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No Experience in the Trades? Here’s What You Actually Need to Start
Want to become an HVAC technician in Texas? Learn the training, certification, registration, and career steps involved, plus how Tradecraft’s six-week HVAC program can help you start building hands-on skills faster.
How to Become an HVAC Technician in Texas
Want to become an HVAC technician in Texas? Learn the training, certification, registration, and career steps involved, plus how Tradecraft’s six-week HVAC program can help you start building hands-on skills faster.
Why Aren’t Guidance Counselors Pushing Trade Schools?
The win is not getting a kid into college. The win is helping a kid build a successful life. Jacob Doss, Co-Founder of Tradecraft Schools, on why students deserve to understand every credible path in front of them after graduation.
What to Look For in a Trade Program
Not all trade programs are built the same. Learn what to look for in HVAC, electrical, and plumbing training, and how Tradecraft’s six-week, hands-on programs help students start building real career skills faster.
Skilled Trades in Demand: HVAC, Electrical, Plumbing Jobs
Skilled trades are seeing wage growth and job openings that outpace a lot of white-collar fields, without the four years and six figures of debt a traditional degree usually requires.
How Much Do Plumbers Make? Texas Plumbing Salaries
Plumbing continues to offer steady career potential because the work is essential and needed in nearly every community. Homes, businesses, hospitals, schools, restaurants, and industrial facilities all depend on plumbing systems that need to be installed, maintained, repaired, and replaced over time.
How to Become an Electrician in Texas
Most electrical programs bury you in theory before you ever wire a circuit or touch a panel. Tradecraft flips that. From day one you’re in the lab, and classroom instruction is built around making the lab work make sense, not the other way around.
Trade School vs. College: A 6-Week Path to a Career
A four-year degree asks a family to finance years. Tradecraft asks for six weeks. That is the entire differentiator. Students are not financing a decade of repayment, they are financing a few weeks that change everything.