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Sadly I have no idea how trades work in the USA but I'm a journeyman cabinetmaker in Canada. I work in a fairly big shop (25 people-ish plus sales etc. upstairs) so all this is my personal experience in a shop that a good amount of equipment. It doesn't pay as well as carpentry, but it is more indoors, has more computer work (we have a computer controlled saw that can cut 4 4x8 sheets of material at a time I love it  ), and is a very precise and detail oriented trade. Our regular journeyman rates are $21-23/hr, but supervisors, service people and installers make more than that. And one of our installers who works with one other guy is a woman in her mid-late 20s who's like 5'5" and lightly built, she's just hardcore. Before I started at my job I had a couple years woodworking in high school, a couple months volunteering at Habitat for Humanity, and a bachelors in biology. My boss basically gave me a chance and it worked out really well for both of us. I like my job, I'm good at it, and in Alberta at least, cabinetmaking classes are usually 1/4-1/3 women which is pretty cool. No idea about the USA of course.So my advice would be look into cabinetmaking too, or find out if that's considered carpentry where you are, and finish carpentry is the fancy careful stuff like edging and baseboards and door frames while framing carpentry is throwing together the actual frames of houses and other buildings.
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