Plumbing as a career

Left school or thinking of a job change. Before you decide on plumbing as a career, examine the pros and cons I've experienced over the last 24 years.

What to expect?

I was 18 years old, working for my father in the catering industry when one day a plumber turned up to put on a new roof. It was my job to give him a hand.

This was my intro to plumbing.

Cloudless blue skies, 30C/85F degree heat, physically working hard, going home to tired muscles and the warmth of a touch of sunburn.

Yep, this was the life for me. I started my plumbing as a career apprenticeship two weeks later.

24 years down the track I still love the feeling of being physically spent and the warmth from a tinge of sunburn.

Stop right there and pull those rose colored glasses off Mike (that's me) Just last week you were moaning about crawling through cold wet mud (under a house) at 10 oclock at night!

You forget so quickly about the finger you pulverised with your hammer. And remember how regularly you bang your head on the beams under houses. What about the headaches from the solvent fumes you breath in? In winter, I heard you crying underneath that house about your sore knees and aching back. And were you not the one, who was dry wretching as you pulled the sanitary pad from the blocked waste pump.

Believe me, plumbing as a career is not all cups of tea and biscuits.

And that's where you have to make a decision about plumbing as a career.

Life's hard as a plumber. Any good one, has no option but to stay fit due to the rigours of work. (No gym workouts needed here)

To a certain extent you'll be able to eat what you like. You'll likely burn 10000 calouries + per day.

You have ups and downs. Days when you stand back and admire your workmanship. Days when you curse the builder for building the house so low to the ground. There will be days when your literally in the crap.

You'll spend time in darkness (under houses) and time out in the clear blue skys.

Never boring, always learning.

Great money to be made.

Down to earth people you work with (sparkies, builders, tilers, painters) real people.

No need to dress up like a ponce to go to work each day. (kiss your razor goodbye if you want.)

No mind games with customers, no in house politics, you're all in the trenches together.

Yep plumbing as a career is ok, (if that's what you think.)

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