I haven't done much industrial so I can't say anything about that. Lots of commercial. The money was good, (speaking from a contractor's perspective here), but the hours were generally longer. Lots of times there were crashed schedules to deal with. I switched to doing residential work when I started a family. Now I am just about always home at nights. After some real trial and error, I learned how to make a decent living doing that work also. The down side of residential work can be some of the general contractors you get to contend with. Learn to weed em out and things get better.