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A young man working on a job site

You are not behind.
You're early.

Half the people doing this work started exactly where you are. Some of them didn't finish school either.

This is mentorship, training, scholarships, and help getting into a trade. It's free. There is nothing to qualify for. It isn't a program you apply to and then wait on.

Pick one and look at it.

Electrical work

Electrical

You run power into buildings that don't have it yet and fix it in the ones that do. Most days you're working off prints on a site that isn't finished, or in somebody's basement finding out why half the house went dark. Everything anybody plugs in went through hands like yours first.

Starting out
$39,430
Median
$62,350
Experienced
$106,030

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2024 (national). Starting out = 10th percentile. Median = 50th. Experienced = 90th. Annual. Georgia figures to be added alongside national. SOC 47-2111. Real numbers only — never estimated, never rounded up.

How you get in

  • —A four-year apprenticeship. You are paid from the first day and your pay steps up every year.
  • —Or trade school first, then apprentice with credit for what you finished.
  • —Georgia requires a license to pull permits on your own. That comes after the hours.
  • —The Mustard Seed covers tuition, exam fees, and your first set of hand tools.
Everything about Electrical →

There are two dozen more.

What happens after you send this

A person reads it. Not a system.

You get an email back within a few days, from somebody with a name.

Then we talk about what you're interested in and what's near you. That's the whole thing. There is no application and nothing to qualify for.

If you're under 18, we'll loop in a parent or guardian before anything starts.

Faith the size of a seed is enough to start. That's the whole requirement.