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sn00pie
Who the —f hires a £130/hour plumber?
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In london a plumber/gas man is as rare as the veyron.

None experinced plumbers get £35 average and the average plumber with 3 years experience charges about £55.

Emergency plumbers charge £130 a hour. If you were rich and had nice stuff in your house im sure you too would pay that fee.
 
ExigeExcel
Would have to be industrial, or a central heating system installation.

Palnning on Aerospace Engineering.
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Aerospace and central heating are far of from each other.

Havent you left yr 11 now aswell what do you do now?
 
Yeah but what you have to relize is that alot of people now want to be plumbers because of teh previous shortage. So soon there'll be too many and so everyone will flood to another trade and so on.

I know loads who have already started as, or planned to be, brickies, plumbers etc

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Young_Warrior
Aerospace and central heating are far of from each other.

Havent you left yr 11 now aswell what do you do now?
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:lol: I wason about the price you were charging.

No, just started year 11.
 
ExigeExcel
Yeah but what you have to relize is that alot of people now want to be plumbers because of teh previous shortage. So soon there'll be too many and so everyone will flood to another trade and so on.

I know loads who have already started as, or planned to be, brickies, plumbers etc

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:lol: I wason about the price you were charging.

No, just started year 11.
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Cool secondary school was fun but already I prefer college alot more and no one I knew beforehand is going my college.

Alot of people try to get into plumbing but its very difficult. About 300 people applied at my college for 30 places and there are only a handful of colleges in london that teach plumbing compared to electrical courses in which there are alot more colleges. People also have a tendancy to drop out or decide one year in that they want to do something else when they realise that they will sometimes be working with and sitting in faeces. I mean say ive got poo on my hands and my face is itching me I cant scratch it that alone I would charge people 50 pounds for the fact that im denied to scratch myself. :yuck:

Also to do the last level of plumbing you need to be working for a plumber or plumbing company which are few and far.
 
lot of people try to get into plumbing but its very difficult. About 300 people applied at my college for 30 places and there are only a handful of colleges in london that teach plumbing compared to electrical courses in which there are alot more colleges. People also have a tendancy to drop out or decide one year in that they want to do something else when they realise that they will sometimes be working with and sitting in faeces. I mean say ive got poo on my hands and my face is itching me I cant scratch it that alone I would charge people 50 pounds for the fact that im denied to scratch myself.
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Well when you pit it like that... I would charge more!

My D.T teacher has a career history I would love except he didn't end it well ;) He's basically a capable plumber, glazer, sparky, carpenter and machinist. Also some brick work.

And then he became a teacher!?
 
ExigeExcel
Well when you pit it like that... I would charge more!

My D.T teacher has a career history I would love except he didn't end it well ;) He's basically a capable plumber, glazer, sparky, carpenter and machinist. Also some brick work.

And then he became a teacher!?
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I too am trying to figure out why my teachers are in class teaching me instead of being out working and making a bomb. But then again all my teachers are old and kinda frail so they probably take a week on a 12 hour job so decided to teach. The job can also be stressful as some people get the work done but then end up not paying what is owed. I also suppose the job will get very boring after about 3- 4 years and if you have everything you want like a nice car and house with your mortgage payed off then ye I would also consider teaching or some other kind of behind the desk job.
 
Started with Mechanical Engineering, finished with a Business degree. I bailed from ME as it was too hard, and just needed a few more courses to stop throwing my money away. As it was, I wasn't doing much with my now-useless degree, so I got a 2-year "IT applications" degree at the local community college to get a raise at my job in Gainesville. Along the way, I wandered about with no major in several courses in psychology, art, history, Japanese language and culture, not including all the other courses that you're required to take along with your degree.

Do I owe a lot in student loans? You bet...and I'm still not as smart as Famine.

So when it's all said and done, reading Car & Driver and Road & Track were my best (and cheapest) textbooks for my present job, which pays far better and promoted me faster than anything else I've done.
 
Young_Warrior
Im glad that college is free in the UK.
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It's free in the U.S. too, but you have to be a lower-income, one-legged, one-armed military veteran of Norweigian-African-American descent.

Sorry to offend any lower-income, one-legged, one-armed military veteran of Norweigian-African-American descent members here.
 
Like some others, I'm between high school and University right now. I plan to enter a School of Music here in Winnipeg in about a year, and hopefully become a guitar teacher.
 
Yup it was terriable, I had a 3.9 GPA coming outta high school and I wasn't given any money my first year of college, the second year the university gave me 4 grand since I got a 4.0 my first year. And starting my third year I got a full ride.
 
Im studying Computer aided drafting and architecture now. i like it but for some reason it feels like i should be doing something else. I actually would rather be a firefighter.
 
BlazinXtreme
Yup it was terriable, I had a 3.9 GPA coming outta high school and I wasn't given any money my first year of college, the second year the university gave me 4 grand since I got a 4.0 my first year. And starting my third year I got a full ride.
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What is your overall GPA so far?
 
pupik
It's free in the U.S. too, but you have to be a lower-income, one-legged, one-armed military veteran of Norweigian-African-American descent.

Sorry to offend any lower-income, one-legged, one-armed military veteran of Norweigian-African-American descent members here.
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Or, if you're part of a rich family. Cough. Paris Hilton went to Yale? wtf? Cough.

Scholarships can take care of the bright or hard-working. Are there any countries besides the USA where college isn't free? Freedom isn't free here, either. It's a buck-o five.
 
KaffeinE 86
... Are there any countries besides the USA where college isn't free? ...
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It sure ain't free here in New Zealand.

You can get a loan from the government, but you have to pay that back once you've finished studying. A good idea on the face of it, but some people come out owing $NZ100,000+. Then they want to buy a house and start a family, but they've got a huge debt hanging over their heads. They just head overseas because they can get paid more over there, and they don't have to pay back their loan.

It's a bit of a talking point here at the moment, we just had an election - :D
 

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