Jacob said after high school he entered college during the pandemic and hated the zoom classes and felt maybe university wasn't the right choice like a lot of students during this period. After dropping out bounced around from between several jobs until he had a chance encounter with an electrician who did the electrical installation on his mothers hot tube witch lead on the path to become an electrician.

After spending a couple of years doing grunt work and studying he said he was able to gain enough hours to take his states test to for an electrical license and "in January 2024. Just a month later, at 21, he opened his own business, Palmer Electrical. By the end of that year, according to profit and loss statements reviewed by Fortune, he grossed nearly $90,000. Year-to-date in 2025, he’s already exceeded that".

In the article he also says “I’m a one-man, one-truck operation,” adding that after starting out working for friends and family Soon, word-of-mouth referrals began to flow. Then as of early September 2025, he had booked out a month in advance. Now He’s 23, debt-free, and fully independent saying “I don’t owe anybody anything,” compared to his college-bound peers saddled by loans and job uncertainties.

The article goes on to show a statistical trends that back up a trend in with many younger people choosing this option and also profiles the new bread of trade related influencers popularizing this the benefits of this path.