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

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Like everyone else said they make good money and if you're good at what you do then you should eat well because plumbers are needed :ehh:
 

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Thats the beauty of trades and something young brehs should consider cuz college isnt for everyone. Electricians, plumbers, bricklayers, machinists, mechanics, etc., are all viable options.
 

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You can touch 100k early in to being a plumber, if you work smart.
Same with HVAC/locksmith/welding etc.
I'd be a plumber long-before I work a dead-end skill-less job.
 

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The term "good money" is relative to the individual when you have to deal with human feces for a living. Like, if you don't go home and soak for at least an hour after work, then you :trash:
Yup. Garbage men and people who work in sanitation make good money in NYC too, but I can't see myself doing that kind of work for "good money" :manny:


My hats off to em' if you can deal with the foulest stenches and sites in human existence...more power to you, but me? Nah I'm straight
 

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Worked in the plumbing industry for about 4 years. After incentives for up selling services they would make on average between $42 for a terrible plumber to about $65hr for the better ones.

Mostly it's water heaters, fixture changes, and re piping houses that were the money makers. Occasional main water line digs as well cost a lot. I would say it was about 10-15% sewage work and when that happened the plumber would make the apprentice do the shyt work for them :lolbron:
 

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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:scust:



u cant be a man and be weak
 

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Sad truth....if many of the unemployed college grads out here had gotten into lucrative trades instead of stacking debt at a 4 year institution the student loan bubble wouldn't be popping like it is.
Then you'd just have a lot of unemployed electricians, plumbers and welders.

Unions keep a cap on the licenses of those things by limiting the number of people in them....sort of like doctors
 

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Sad truth....if many of the unemployed college grads out here had gotten into lucrative trades instead of stacking debt at a 4 year institution the student loan bubble wouldn't be popping like it is.

People wanna sit at desks and surf the internet instead of learning a productive skill :smh:
 

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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:scust:



u cant be a man and be weak

Sounds like y'all made the best out of having a lack of options :wow: Y'all were literally stirring sh*t up in Iraq :wow:
 

Dameon Farrow

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Most of the time they're fixing things that wouldn't cost a thing to fix on your own and takes no time and they can jack up the price and no one would know any better
Gonna be like 150 to change out a fill valve on a toilet and that shyt costs less than 10$ on your own. But since it's a toilet most would gladly pay someone else to go near it.:russ:
 
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