Likes?
Working (generally) inside a sheathed structure - not like our poor nail banging cousins who have to be out in the sh*tty weather as a matter of course.
At the end of the day, being able to point to an area and say "I did this".
Doing something that not everybody can (correctly - eliminating the handyman factor LOL).
Being in a trade where you need to have some creativity to get from point a to point b.
Being second only to plumbers in the "I'm gonna make a hole there...because I can" food chain.
Dislikes?
Working in unheated frames without windows (or panels to block the gaping holes) when the high for the day is -10F, and the wind is out of the NNE @ 20-35MPH.
Lugging my Hammer drill
and my hole hawg
and my benders
and my ladder
and my sawzall
and my parts bucket
and my hand tools to the third floor of a bazillion $$ house - only to have to bring down my Hammer drill,
and my hole hawg
and my benders
and my ladder
and my sawzall
and my parts bucket
and my hand tools at the end of the day. [whew]
Forgetting where the spare key is when I get to the site early, and having to sit around doing nothing
(and catching glares from the GC) while waiting for my foreman to show up.
Naggy H.O.'s who change their minds
after you've made the pipes pretty. (Remember, we're in conduit country)
The perpetual sheet metal cuts you get on your hands piping & wiring can lights.
Sawdust / drill chunks that sneak around your glasses.
Are the negatives enough to make me quit?
Nope. I studied too long and worked to hard to get here. Nowhere to go but up.
And besides, If I got out of the biz, I couldn't hang out here!