Sorry but i disagree with your advice. Sometimes you get into a job that you didn't know was gonna be horrible. Example...employer tells you in interview...we don't have on call in the summer...and then you find out a week into the job that you will be on call every other week for a week at a time during the summer. We have great health insurance....and it only costs you $500 a month out of your paycheck. How about we care about our customers and honesty is what we are looking for and then you find out that every service call you go on your owner EXPECTS you to sell a new system no matter what the problem may be. My point is.....sometimes you can ask every question you can think of during an interview and think you are making a wise and educated decision and if you were lied to through that entire interview how does that become your fault? I love what I do, but I hate this field. Maybe I have just had bad experiences or want to believe people and am not a good judge of character but I have had 4 jobs in 6 years and 3 out of the 4 have lied to me about major things either about how the company ran or what was expected of me.
My job now, which is soon to be my last job, is steady income but it is a complete dead end job. I have learned all I am going to learn, I am not being challenged I am bored and I go through the movements like a robot. I want to challenge myself and this career I have been thinking about doing for years and now is the time. I cant stay where I am any longer, I look at my 10 month old daughter and know its time for a change not only 4 me but for the family also.
Big difference between how you have described the situation and the description from the starter of this thread. I completely understand where you're coming from. I personally just left a job that I thought I'd retire from when I took it many years ago. That was before I was sold as slave labor to a company that shall remain nameless because the only thing I have to say about them will get me banned from this site. Love what I do so much, I wanted to cry when I left, but I left because IT was THAT BAD. Had a girlfriend one time that treated me bad, but I ended up married eventually 'cause not all women are rotten. I feel for the guy, but my problem with the original post is the "hvac s***ks. If someone is looking for a career change I wouldn't advise this field. HVAC s***ks". Change if it's that bad, but don't let your emotions cause you to start insinuating that a field that's been good to the rest of us is nothing more than a way to make a paycheck for people who can't do better.
I really love my job in this field, but the field has been kicking my BUTT up and down every roof and mechanical room this winter. I feel like i can't do anything right no mater how much time i spend.