Don Ravioli
7:03 Sat Mar 30
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Kitchen fitting on new build sites is an easy trade.
Units come ready made, no plumbing, no elecs, walls are pretty much square.
Money is good as well once you get your speed up and are doing one a day.
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michael
6:11 Sat Mar 30
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Do the knowledge
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pulhampete
12:13 Sat Mar 30
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To become a gas engineer you first need to work on your god complex. Other trades are not worthy to be in their presence.
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bruuuno
12:03 Sat Mar 30
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Funny enough w4 I worked as a window cleaner when I was 17. I couldn’t hack the physicality of it, especially after a heavy night on the gear. Would be a different story now. Surely the hard part is getting a good customer base?
That’s interesting Joe - gas engineer was the other one I was considering.
Thanks for your input chaps
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w4hammer
11:44 Sat Mar 30
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£40 (Forty) 4 zero an hour, ovs ;-)
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w4hammer
11:42 Sat Mar 30
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get yourself a ladder and start cleaning windows- round my way they wont take on new customers and unless you have them booked in regular ( monthly) they will quote about 6-8 weeks lead-time.
Works out about £4) and hour, cash. no supplies or consumables apart from the odd chamois leather.
perfect business in combo with a grass cutting service- truly the easiest money on the block IMHO
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ironsofcanada
11:27 Sat Mar 30
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Is learning to code a trade?
That is what the internet is telling journalist whose click model is not working.
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Pop Robson
11:16 Sat Mar 30
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Plumber more demand, I was a sparks ain't done full time for 20yrs but kept my ticket up to date.
Doing houses up is shit, I did mainly commerical work for the larger compaines
All plumbers are richer, in fact I'm thinking of given it a go myself
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BRANDED
10:39 Sat Mar 30
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I used a sparky on the Isle of Wight who was literally the shittest tradesman I’d ever used. Everything needed redoing.
Go for it
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Eerie Descent
10:38 Sat Mar 30
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Personally, if I was going to do it, I'd do Carpentry. It's the one trade where you can take it on a few levels if you want to, get into designing bespoke stuff, extensions or whatever.
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pulhampete
10:35 Sat Mar 30
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To see if you like it, first spend 8 hours crawling around in your loft. Then do it again the next day and the next....
That is pretty much the first 12 months of an electricians apprenticeship.
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Chrisel
10:33 Sat Mar 30
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Toe Rag,
Again, that's why God invented apprentices!
I actually hear the phrase "bloody hell a sparks that cleans up!"
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Chrisel
10:30 Sat Mar 30
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overbyyer is correct.
But then that's why God invented apprentices.
I have two guys (one apprentice) working for me you can't just keep working flat out for ten years.
If you want to start earning decent money you do have to have guys working for you, although that then brings in it's own problems
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Toe Rag
10:30 Sat Mar 30
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DO YOU KNOW WHAT A BROOM IS YOU MESSY SPARKY CUNT?
Get used to hearing those words.
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overbyyer
10:15 Sat Mar 30
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A word of caution - most trades are physically demanding at even young ages, the reality of climbing scaffolding and ladders in winter is very different from the idea of picking and choosing a bit of light domestic jobs.
If you think you'll need to work well into your 50's then forget it.
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Chrisel
9:21 Sat Mar 30
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Retrained at as a sparks 11 years ago (at 33).
Different way of life to working up in the City.
My son is now 9 years old, I've seen much more of him than I would've if I still worked for the banks. Actually get to drop him off and pick him up from school some days
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JLAP
9:20 Sat Mar 30
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You can do what you want bruuno, fuck it, age is no barrier.
Do it mate, may be the best thing you ever did or it also may be a mistake, better off finding out than spending the rest of years thinking what might have been.
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Joe C
9:12 Sat Mar 30
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Good mate of mine has just wound up his building firm and completed his training and certifications as a gas engineer. Reckons it’s the best decision he’s ever made - a lot happier, less stressed and “a lot less time outside in the fucking cold”
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Westham67
9:08 Sat Mar 30
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That's where the money is go for it 40 now loads of working life left
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Eerie Descent
2:16 Sat Mar 30
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What a fucking pussy.
Tell her I said that, Sold0 son.
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Northern Sold
1:34 Sat Mar 30
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BEST MATE done it at 38.... gave up his head trader in the Oil Exchange.... had paid off his mortgage so decided he wanted to do something else... trained for a couple of months to be a tiler.... bought all the gear... a van... got a gig on site... lasted one day... week later back in the City trading oil...
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