Is Plumbing a good career for me

[Badcompany]

18 from london thinking of either becoming a Plumber or Electrician i like the sound of both but not sure which to choose.

 

[leelister6]

Read some of the similar threads on here......................Then think again!

 

[PlumbBobBob]

spend a couple of hours reading through the threads before you decide. the industry is flooded (no pun intended) at the moment and there is not enough work to go around.

 

[leelister6]

There needs to be a dedicated thread on here regarding this subject! Come on mods and admins, earn yer corn!!

 

[GQuigley67]

no one is taking anyone on at the moment, it would be a miracle if you got an apprenticeship in this current climate, and have a read at this article

http://www.ukplumbersforums.co.uk/plumbing-courses/19241-info-people-considering-fast-tracking.html

as I'm sure you know we are still in a recession and the building trade is one of the hardest hit

 

[fuzzy]

loads of threads on here about plumbing careers and courses

 

[Badcompany]

Do you reckon the climate wil get better in the next 5 years or so ?

 

[Badcompany]

spend a couple of hours reading through the threads before you decide. the industry is flooded (no pun intended) at the moment and there is not enough work to go around.

Thanks
To be honest i dont have much options , cant afford uni dont have no qualifications etc.
Learning a trade is the best thing for me i think , just need to decide which one.

 

[fuzzy]

well if they have trained 50,000 new plumbers in the last 7 years i think its enough to cope with an increase in demand so id say no.

i think the crunch will come in 10-15 years time. Many people re training are in their 40s and 50s, they will be dropping out of the trade by then

 

[GQuigley67]

yes it better be anyhow lol, plumbing and heating can be a good career with constant changing technologies and now we have renewables to look forward to in the future, there is a diversity aswell your not always doing the same thing day in day out you could work in domestic, commercial, industrial and work abroad.

If you could get an apprenticeship at the moment then take it, but I highly doubt it everyone is getting paid off at the moment, my old company have almost cleared out all their workforce and are down to just a handful of small contracts where as before they had alot of big multi million pound ones

Although the word recession does annoy me, if the banks can make money out of thin air then why do we have recessions in the first place ??

 

[Badcompany]

Is plumbing enjoyable ?

 

[fuzzy]

i know a company thats 100 years old and very respected with big contracts go under, apparently coz the bank pulled the plug on the overdraft required to purchse materials for big contracts before money came in, 100 years down the drain parden the pun

 

[Badcompany]

I reckon i would be able to get an apprenticeship.
What qualifications should i be loooking for ?

 

[fuzzy]

I reckon i would be able to get an apprenticeship.
What qualifications should i be loooking for ?

quals are the easy bit, its the apprenticeship thats gold, get the job GET THE JOB,

 

[GQuigley67]

my old company is around 113 year old, they seem to be surviving so must be doing something right, although no one has had a raise in pay in around 2 years and are on week rolling contracts