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Our culture looks down upon blue-collar jobs such as plumbers, electricians and other trade-skill type jobs. Yet these jobs are becoming harder and harder to fi
by Kynlyn 15y ago
Our culture looks down upon blue-collar jobs such as plumbers, electricians and other trade-skill type jobs. Yet these jobs are becoming harder and harder to fill and pay is ever increasing. Don't believe me? Hire an independent plumber and/or electrician for a few days worth of work and see how much it cost you.
Unfortunately, there is a stigma with those jobs so people borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars for a college education, then go to work making $15/hour while Joe the Plumber goes to a trade school and earns $60-$75k/year right out of school.
- yardie 15y agoThis is very regional. Hiring a plumber to fix your plumbing is not how those guys get paid, but they do appreciate the money. The steady work for them is new housing developments, which if you are in Nevada, Florida, Arizona and most of the southern US is at excess capacity. I have friend who are master electricians doing stage and club lighting, cable and satellite installations, etc. Before 2008 they were making $150k+ annually from the construction market, now its anything to keep the lights on at home.