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At 40 with basic knowledge of both plumbing and electrics which would you advise retraining for ? ie. Is either oversupplied now / any difference in the amount which can be made self employed ?
 
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Re: Electrician or plasterer - career change ?

i reckon a plasterer can make more ,they will finish earlier and leave all the ****e for somebody else to clean up it's win win win
yourse benji
 
Re: Electrician or plasterer - career change ?

eye but they will have to work ALOT harder for it, and have to drive round with all that muk n sh*&e all over em! lol and your further up the pecking order been a plumber or a spark, rather than a wall butterer! lol
 
yeah absolubtly me best mates a plasterer, you can make very good money doing it, spesh the dry lining. dont agree with how if your on a site its all rush rush plasterers coming in, then they dont even clean the boxes out!!
still spark or a plumber?? get a lot of money for doing a boiler swap, in comparison to doing a consumer unit swap.

rich
 
my mates a plumber and sometimes i wonder why im doing my sparks course as i could have been a qualified gas safe fitter by now.
 
Plumber is definitely easier and the pay is better. In fact the only downside is having all the sparks think you're thick. Put it this way, if a light stops working, 'oh well, it doesn't work, we'll get it sorted when we get our bonus'. On the other hand, if your whole house smells of poo, you're going to pay anybody anything to get it sorted, aint ya!?:D
 
That is the one reason I went with electrics could not handle messing with somebody else's poo!!!!! Fathers a plumber....
 
And another drawback being a plumber is you have to pick up the entire contents of your fittings bag or box and tool bag from the floor every afternoon about 3pm
 
What would you rather? Being Electrocuted or being covered in crap?

Plumbing's easy anyway. All you need is a bit of copper tube, some solder and a blowtorch. Don't need any woood drill bits as you lay all pipes on top of joist's as close too the floorboards as possible so you can charge ton's too repair the pipe when some unfortunate soul nicks it with the saw :p
 
What would you rather? Being Electrocuted or being covered in crap?

Plumbing's easy anyway. All you need is a bit of copper tube, some solder and a blowtorch. Don't need any woood drill bits as you lay all pipes on top of joist's as close too the floorboards as possible so you can charge ton's too repair the pipe when some unfortunate soul nicks it with the saw :p

Plus you can join pipes wherever you like - hidden or not, using anything from hoseclips to solder ring and it all complies.
 
we were always told at college that a plumber is just a sparky with his brains bashed out. Just a joke of course I have a bit of respect for plumbers, joiners now well that is a different matter sepecially when they nail or screw a cable and for some reason they always pick the cooker or shower circuit
 
if you can read, write, spell and add up something apart from your bill - then train as a sparks. if you want to make money just by working and not writing oodles of paper, become a plumber.
 
additiom to last post. since when did a plumber have to measure and record the resistance to water flow of a few feet of copper pipe
 

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