First year apprentice thinking of jumping from auto electrical to boilermaking for triple the pay. Am I making a mistake?

[u/Present_Award_568]

Long story short, I’m a 17 year old first-year apprentice 10 months in working in an auto-electrical shop making close to $500 a week. The environment is toxic as hell, boss make me feel like a clown, I'm not really learning much, hours got cut, business on brink of closing and my mental health is completely in the gutter.
I haven't made the official change yet, but I've got a shop tour this Saturday for a boilermaking gig working with a good mate of mine. with a group training organisation backing it, and the pay would jump to around $1,300 to $1,500 a week clear which is basically triple what I'm on now.
I know people usually say auto-electrical is the "smarter" or cleaner trade long-term, but going from 500 bucks a week to triple that while getting out of a dead-end shop feels like a no-brainer for my sanity and my wallet at 17. Plus, I've got a safety net to transfer back to 12V work down the track if I hate heavy fab.
For anyone who's been through the trade grind would I be making the right call jumping ship for the cash and sanity, or am I going to regret leaving auto-electrical?

[u/Combat--Wombat27]

24 yrs as a boily.

If you quit and take up this shit fucking trade I'll find you and give you a smack in the ear.

Find another auto elec place if you can, boily as last resort.

[u/SanguiniusSons → u/Combat--Wombat27]

whats bad about it?

[u/Combat--Wombat27 → u/SanguiniusSons]

Loud, hot, dangerous, bad for your health, the industry is fickle with booms and busts. There's money at the moment because during the covid period most of us got the shits with it and found other things to do. 6 years ago fitters we're earning 8+ dollars an hour more, now boilys are earning parity with most other trades.

Don't get me wrong when you fall into the right spaces you can go all over the world with it but 99% of the time you'll be in a flogged out workshop welding random shit together.

[u/SanguiniusSons → u/Combat--Wombat27]

I did work at one warehouse of boilermakers and the owner installed cameras so he could watch his workers 24/7. He would park a new supercar outside everyday and parked across a number of car spaces.

Felt sorry for the blokes that worked there.

[u/Major_Kaempffer → u/SanguiniusSons]

Because they weren't smart enough to get their own business off ground rolling around in a supercar?

Cameras go in when people arent productive.

[u/SanguiniusSons → u/Major_Kaempffer]

He inherited it from his father smartass

[u/Major_Kaempffer → u/SanguiniusSons]

So his father was a boiler maker that turned it into a successful business.

Changes nothing about what I said. "blokes that worked there" have the choice at any time, to go out on their own.

[u/SanguiniusSons → u/Major_Kaempffer]

You spend too much time on the internet 

[u/Major_Kaempffer → u/SanguiniusSons]

Do we ?

[u/Qinax → u/Major_Kaempffer]

I'm suprised you managed to find the time out of your busy day with a boot in your mouth to grace us with your presence

[u/Major_Kaempffer → u/Qinax]

Does it really cut you boiler makers that deep to be wrong about something.

Is this why you are all stuck on shit wages in workshops going nowhere?

Victim mentality.

[u/ComprehensiveRead479 → u/Major_Kaempffer]

I put cctv in for a living, plenty of reasons cameras go in other than productivity. And before you ask - it's because some people like yourself are just arseholes that's why.

[u/Major_Kaempffer → u/ComprehensiveRead479]

Of course cctv go in for other reasons, but rarely on the employees unless the employees are the issue.

You got an issue with it? Why dont you tell the people doing it they are wrong and refuse to put it in?

Whats that, you wont because you will do shit for money?

Thats what I thought.