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what made you want to become a pipe monkey/heating engineer
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Ermintrude
No way? I lived on streets ( well most of them were called road and I had a house on them 😉 ) well done for climbing out of that hole! And errr straight into the fire.
Yeah, was a drink and drugs thing. I was so embarrassed by what I had become that I just hid away from people. It was pretty low. Now, I am the luckiest guy ever. Great job (I do find it tough at times) and the most amazing wife who is so understanding and supports me in all I do. Well, apart from getting leathered at royal ascot on Saturday
Well done Pal. I think we're all in unison on that one.
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Ray Stafford
Could be the same story for a lot of us mutley had things worked out differently. All credit to you for dragging yourself out of it.
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Masood
Respect for turning your life around!
Don't feel too bad about getting 'leathered' at the races.
I'm positive your not the first and definately not the last!!!
Anyway...my story... first job I was offered.
Went home..told the parents.
They asked when do I start... I replied as as soon as I get a car.
They bought me one within 2 days.
Then I told them the job was @ 120 km away.
They helped me pack!!!!!
Oz Plumber
I'm positive your not the first and definately not the last!!!
Anyway...my story... first job I was offered.
Went home..told the parents.
They asked when do I start... I replied as as soon as I get a car.
They bought me one within 2 days.
Then I told them the job was @ 120 km away.
They helped me pack!!!!!
Oz Plumber
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Ermintrude
Weeks like this one make me happy. It's only Tuesday and look at my treasure
Weeks like this one make me happy. It's only Tuesday and look at my treasure
The Klondike,
That lot's worth more than my car.
Wanted to be an architect but flunked my A levels as girls and beer were far more interesting. Spent much of the next 20 years as a (motorcycle) courier based in London. Got married and bought a doggy house in a doggy part of town. Did quite a bit of plumbing there - loved it. Moved to the country, decided I needed a proper job, went to evening classes for 2 years and never looked back. Now looking to do gas courses at 51..
Love the technical aspects, can be challenging and rewarding, great job.
Love the technical aspects, can be challenging and rewarding, great job.
What is copper at at mo is it back up? [emoji386][emoji409][emoji410]Weeks like this one make me happy. It's only Tuesday and look at my treasure
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Ermintrude
On it's way back up I believe . £3400 / ton
Was pushed towards being an architect by my mum as she knew I wanted to do something in construction. I flunked my A levels as wasn't interested and didn't want to do 7 years at uni with whatever debt came with that.
So did a trial with a firm loved it and found an apprentiship and haven't looked back for 4 years.
So did a trial with a firm loved it and found an apprentiship and haven't looked back for 4 years.
I completed school with 11 gcse's & 2 A-levels never wanted to go to uni. I worked with my dad doing all sorts of general building work in my teenage years; one summer we did a small wet room, I fitted the toilet & did some soldering.. really enjoyed it!
I enrolled in college for plumbing that year. I completed the 4 year course whilst working part time as a butcher, not even a sniff of an apprenticeship I was depressed & disheartened; I spent another 18 months working full time at a highly acclaimed butchery making a nice wage, Finally landed a plumbing apprenticeship, took at least a 50% pay cut to follow my dream.
You know ''the dream'' ? The Van, The signage, The open road, knocking off at half two because you can (as if); Its 10 years since I soldered my first pipe.
I enrolled in college for plumbing that year. I completed the 4 year course whilst working part time as a butcher, not even a sniff of an apprenticeship I was depressed & disheartened; I spent another 18 months working full time at a highly acclaimed butchery making a nice wage, Finally landed a plumbing apprenticeship, took at least a 50% pay cut to follow my dream.
You know ''the dream'' ? The Van, The signage, The open road, knocking off at half two because you can (as if); Its 10 years since I soldered my first pipe.
Well done for not giving it up and pursuing your dream feller
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Ray Stafford
I probably earned more as a courier that at any point in my career before I was 40. But to earn good money I was driving 70 or 80 hours a week and taking all the cr@p jobs to keep in the despatchers good books. Its a youngsters game.
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TheCockneyScot
Got 12 A*-C GCSE's, 3 A-Levels and didn't want to live the life of a Uni student/graduate, so I went into CAD design, after about 9 months sitting in an office for 9 hours straight was making me ill (Literally) so I went looking for a trade, enrolled at my local college for a level 1 entry course in plumbing and gas and worked my way up from there to finding an apprenticeship earning almost three times less than a CAD trainee. Truth be told though, I wouldn't want it any other way. I'm still young so the prospects are there for me if I wish to take them in the industry, definitely don't regret it at all.
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