General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Tom

I am going to have to disagree here.

When I was at school, some of the lads decided to become plumbers, and although they were only fourteen, they were sent to the Wigan Tech in Library Street, the one which is the Town Hall now, and in the dungeon of that building they learned plumbing over two years, going once or twice a week, and they came away with a qualification, and then at 16 they got a job with a plumbing company, or firm of builders, and the plumbers in that company would say to them "forget what yoo have been taught, we will show yoo how to do plumbing properly" and that was the same for joiners, brick layers, leckys etc etc and then there was the whole apprenticeship thing, but those lads ended up with a {{TRADE)) and trade which set them up for life, to always be able to work and earn money, and it also gave them the ability to move around, and even emigrate to another country ......

Now lads like me, the arseholes, the thicko's, tossers, we ended up with nowt, and we couldn't emigrate, nobody wanted us, we couldn't even get a job in St Helens

So I don't know where you get this notion that folk don't like plumbers, I think it's nuts, some folk don't like the bills they get off plumbers, but those folk don't like paying any bills to anyone.

So stop selling yourself short, a plumber is a well respected member of the community, and a valued member of the community, a member of the community who is a trade's person, and a person who is needed by that community