Trades do offer good money, but as others have said, the physical toll is pretty high, unless you only plan to work in a trade for 5-10 years.

I have uncles in trades they're in there mid -forties and look 60 , all complain about knee/back pain, many are out of shape (their jobs exhausts them daily they don't have any energy to come home and work out, not to mention a shit diet, again out in the field, they don't have the luxury of finding healthy food.). One does have a nice boat and they all have decent homes and their kids are well supported, but its a touch life..