How do people decide to be plumbers? I mean damn...

[JP_614]

My pops is a plumber and he's clearing 80k a year not including side jobs mostly residential stuff changing water heats nature like that

He did the apprenticeship route and its within a union you have to pay union dues but they teach you how to become a plumber 5 year program and just have night school some nights

 

[jackswstd]

It's a dirty job but someone has to do it. Plus they get paid really well so I'm sure it's worth all the nasty shyt you deal with sometimes.

 

[Klyk21]

when you a man
you dont let things bother you like that

you do what the job takes

i dug out the septic tank for my parents' home multiple times growing up with my dad
whenever there was an over run
and we need to fix things

and i was a damm kid


hell my 1st tour in Iraq
I had to do feces burns
(where we would have to vacuum out the port a johns and put the shyt in a burn barrel so we set the shyt on fire and had to keep stirring it to keep it burning to get rid of it)
we were wearing chemical suits and gas mask
but u still could smell shyt, fuel and smoke



u cant be a man and be weak

I remember seeing that in the jarhead movie. More power to you "man". I'm not doing that, i'd rather kill a deer and cut it open to feed my family, hands still dirty but they don't have shyt on them

 

[Another Man]

The bread. If you dont at least have some trade skills, you take an L

 

[CarbonBraddock]

my uncle was a plumber for 63 years and his 3rd marriage was destroyed bc all of his bedroom activities devolved into various bathroom-related activities.

 

[Amerikan Melanin]

Union plumbers out my way can clear 100K 100K take home pay so thats not too bad a decision. You can move from a plumber to pipefitter or something less dirty real easy.