Newbee help please

[DeltaT]

Daz son you have missed out on a apprenticeship & that 4 years of the one-to-one of a journeyman, their tips & skills can't be learned on a mickey mouse course or at college.

Bits of paper will never make you a Plumber, doing a Bathroom change or a combi boiler swop in a day to a high standard, is what people are looking for - speed & skill, speed & skill.

Even with the credit crunch, we only retain fast, high skill guys and never ever would employ CC/CCCs.

So, back to the rounds Pat!!!

 

[dazmanplumber]

well if you say so Delta T back to the rounds it is. Who am i to disagree with a timed served plumbing and heating engineer.

I suppose the 22k i get for walking round in the fresh air will have to do it is a hard life i lead no boss 6 weeks paid holiday, sick pay, pension etc etc but hey if its what us thick as mince posties have to put up with oh well.

i suppose the jobs im getting at the moment will be nice beer nights out and holidays etc

 

[Paul Barker]

yes i may be on the first rung but its a career path hence the progression up it.

Cheers Daz

Daz I fear for you that you will not make the money of the post man job. I have yet to make the nurses pay after 8 years.

When I was doing work for BG it grossed at £20 an hour, but when you take off fixed and variable overheads it is £11 an hour before tax. People earn £10 hr for stacking shelves overnight.

The problem with £11 /hr is that it doesn't compensate you for the responsibility of leaving 10 properties a day 's gas appliances and systems entirely in your come back your jail sensence should anything go wrong. which far outweighs that of a shelf stacker.

Gas fitters wages are now far too low, and the wage a self employed cc can achieve is well below minimum wage. I bump into people all the time who have found that the hard way given up and are now doing a totally unrelated job, but actually earni8ng money.


There isn't a 20th of the work out there now that there was when I started, and what few jobs there are there are 20 guys in every local paper, you are unlikely to even be picked out for a phone call, let alone win your job when you go compared to all the otheers they will get quotes from. Job is finished for the time being.

 

[roguetrader]

Anyone know of a course for removing chips?............Try Gavin from Autoglass.
HTH......................

NO! Gavin from autoglass just injects his special resin into cracks, my wife told me so.

 

[Paul Barker]

well if you say so Delta T back to the rounds it is. Who am i to disagree with a timed served plumbing and heating engineer.

I suppose the 22k i get for walking round in the fresh air will have to do it is a hard life i lead no boss 6 weeks paid holiday, sick pay, pension etc etc but hey if its what us thick as mince posties have to put up with oh well.

i suppose the jobs im getting at the moment will be nice beer nights out and holidays etc

You got no chance of earning that as a cc plumber.

 

[Keston]

I didn't do an apprenticeship and im shaping up ok. Although I do see the HUGE advantage of doing 1 providing the guy in charge doesn't "like" young men

 

[onlyfitidealboilers]

back door merchants have destroyed this trade so why would we want to help them out, what for? so they can undercut us an steel our work
joke this.