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Canadian data · Ontario, Canada
You spend the morning on top of a car in a shaft, torque wrench in hand, adjusting a door operator that has been closing a half-second slow. Afternoon is a callback: someone stuck between four and five. You talk to them through the door while you work. You are dirty by ten and paid whether the building likes you or not.
Registered apprenticeship, 4–5 years, then a licence
An apprenticeship — a sponsor, then hours, then a ticket.
Near zero — you are paid to train
You earn while you learn.
$62k – $125ka year, Ontario
The low number is what you should plan on for the first years.
Openings a year
210 openings a year · More of it each year
Every tower going up is a machine somebody has to keep alive for fifty years.
Who else is asking
about 20 people per opening
Brutal at the door, comfortable forever after. The queue is for the apprenticeship, not the job.
Whether a machine takes it
exposure: low
Remote monitoring tells you what broke. It does not climb the shaft.
Where the work is
cities
Where the tall buildings are. Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, and almost nowhere rural.
Who actually does it
who's in the room
Skews young at entry and stays for decades. Family referrals still move the line.
How soon you earn
Paid almost immediately
Counted from the day you decide, not the day you start.
Hard to enter: roughly 1 in 20 applicants gets an apprenticeship spot in a given intake.
That's a real wall, and it's better to know now. People do get through — usually the ones who applied twice and spent the gap year in a related job. The near neighbours below have no such wall.
Shoulders and knees. And the on-call phone that owns your weekends for the first decade.
Inspection, service management, building systems consulting, your own service contract.
Sit in on a union information night — they're free and public. Ask what the last intake's applicant count was.
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