Sure, trades are great. If you enjoy digging ditches or clearing block sewers or crawling in roofs and under floors until you're 65.
Been down that road, and now I enjoy an air conditioned office with the best view in the world and coffee personally delivered at the push of a button....
I dont do any of the above and I am certainly not going to work until Im 65. Trades have come a long way in the past 10 years. This idea of what tradies do cracks me up. Thats what labourers are for and then they become tradesmen if there switched on enough.