I was kind of fortunate that I had some older friends that went through college, then struggled to find jobs, despite having good degrees.
Meanwhile I was working on every spare day or half day I could, and had no vacation time. I ended up getting sucked into earning money rather than accumulating debt, then quit education. It turned out I just loved manual work too much. 🔧🪚🔨🪓💪
If my son decides he wants to be a plumber I’ll be the first investor in that company.
I come from a long line of tradies, so I do wonder if it's genetic, especially now I see my son examining plumbing systems. 👀
We're going to need so many plumbers I hope he crushes it.
There's a lot of manual jobs that are hard to replace, and if you have some intelligence you can crush the competition. 💪ðŸ§
Exactly right.
Solid advice here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kloLI0j1hAY
College towns are a superb idea.
In my experience college students are generally completely useless at anything practical, and they don't even know how to use Google or YouTube to solve problems. If you're able to watch a tutorial and learn to change a lightbulb, dryer filter, unblock a sink, whatever, you're ahead of ~98% of students.
If you just get on with the jobs, do the job right, charge a sensible amount and don't rip people off, then you're ahead of ~75% of other people doing the same work. You will then get calls to do more work for the same people, and people they know.
You will then get so many offers of work you will be able to choose which jobs you want.
If it's a repeat customer, you may want to help them out with their broken toilet macerator, otherwise you can just apologize, and tell them you're too busy, because you are too busy. If you're not busy, then roll up your sleeves and do it, because it will reward you. People are usually grateful for that kind of thing, and that's rewarding in itself.
