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Trades stereotypes:
Welders: not the brightest
Drywallers and roofers: in areas near the border, none of them are here legally. In the upper Midwest, they’re the guys who get paid last in the company- if they have any money in their pocket, they skip work to go to the strip club.
Ironworkers: welders are stereotyped as barely literate. Ironworkers are stereotyped as barely verbal. Very good at drinking and fighting though.
Electricians: like HVAC techs, usually a bit better at fancy book learning than the other trades. Kinda introverted, big egos, keep to themselves. Electricians have separate unions, boards, etc. They haze their apprentices worse but have more in-trade solidarity more.
Plumbers: fully generic in the trades, a few of the specializations are in the ‘book smart’ category like electrical and HVAC. Known for having multiple ex wives.
Carpenters: Hispanic but the legal kind that still doesn’t speak much English in places where Hispanics aren’t unusual. In places where they are, kinda generically lower class.
Elevator guys: they got the money. Lots and lots of money. They do take risks though.
HVAC: residential techs are used car salesmen. Commercial techs are aggressive personalities that it’s hard to tell if they’re racist or just misanthropic. Career installers are all jailbirds. All of them are the types that would have been better at school if they didn’t hate it with such a burning passion.
General construction: there’s a stereotype of them as crackheads, but recent trends make that unfair- they mostly do meth instead.
Truckers- heavily black, always about to quit. Like their prostitutes. Petrified of an accident.
Concrete guys: alcoholics recruited from the general pool of hard laborers in the area; around me thats illegals. More likely to have their immigration fraud actually done than roofers and drywallers, who mainly just hope nobody checks.
Oil field workers: they got the money, well they did before they spent it all.
Hot side tech(restaurant equipment): baby mamas, plural. Probably can’t pass a drug test, thé boss agrees not to impose one unless there’s an accident. Spends money like theres no tomorrow, but doesn’t earn enough to.
Painters: permanently acting high from all the fumes. Real oddballs because of it.
Pipe fitters: always looking for the next gig- because they’re employed for the job, not necessarily for the company. Broke a lot.
Millwrights: another ‘book smart’ trade, these guys actually liked school- lots of them have degrees in something related. They have a lot of parts on hand and don’t know what to do with them.
Maintenance- as in internal guys: these guys are the first level of what’s possibly three or even four layers of subcontractors. Good ones have breakers mapped out, roof access memorized, keys to everything located by person who has them, etc. Bad ones don’t know any of that, and they don’t know what they don’t know either. Most are somewhat in between, but all of them are fat.
That tracks with the HVAC and Electricians I've known.
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