Hey guys I'm Roger Wakefield, LEED AP, The
Expert Plumber. Going to talk to you today
about the 10 reasons to become a plumber.
My top 10 reasons. Now if you haven't
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Number one: you'll always have a job. Guys
if you're a hard worker and you do what
you're supposed to do, you learn well, but
number one become really good at it,
you're always gonna have a job ok? I see
a lot of people in the trades that say:
well you know I can't stay busy or I
can't keep working, I can't do this. Guys
they may not be very good at what they
do or they may not be the best at what
they do.
Study hard, learn well, try to become the
best and make this something that you
want to do. Guys you can be really really
good at it.
Number two: no student loans, okay? You do
not have to go to college to become a
plumber. Now you can go to work for an
open shop company and you learn from
other plumbers in your career that you
work with or you can join the United
Association, plumbers and pipefitters
Union. You'll go to school a couple of
nights a week and after five years you
get your plumbing license. Guys it's a
great way to go, you learn some good
things. Some instructors are good, some
are bad. You're going to deal with it but
you know what? You get an education and
you can still get a great career. Number
three: different jobs. You can work
commercial, you can work residential, you
can work service, you can work new
construction. You can move up from there
into management in just about any of
those positions. You can move in to work
on a computer, you can do estimating, you
can work in the office. There's a lot of
different things that you can do. You can
actually move all the way up into
general supervision where you run some
of the biggest jobs in town, you can also
move up into Senior Management, Director
of Operations, owner of a company. There's
a lot of different things that you can
do. So that goes to my next one number
four: there's room to grow. You're going to
come in at the bottom. If you come in as
an apprentice, listen and learn,
ask questions, but always work hard. Guys,
I'll keep coming back to that one: as
long as you work hard, you'll have a good
career ahead of you.
Number five: work with people it does not
matter if you're in commercial,
residential, service or new construction,
you're going to be working around other
people. If you're in residential service,
you're gonna be going into people's
homes, you're going to be taking care of
their plumbing. There's a lot of things
that you can do there to take care of
people and it's a great, fulfilling thing.
If you go commercial, say you go
commercial, construction. You're going to be
working with other trades, you're going to
be working with superintendents, you're
going to be working with engineers, you're
going to be working with building owners.
There's a lot of different people that
you're going to be working with, but one
of the big ones is other plumbers. You're
going to work with other plumbers, you're
going to learn from them, you can work with
other apprentices. You can learn from
them too. Number six: chicks dig it. Okay I
know that sounds funny but here's why. As
a plumber you make good money and if
you're making good money you can afford
to take your girl out to a good dinner, a
nice movie, a fun date, a nice trip, out of
town, take good care of her on her
birthday, there's a lot of things that
you can do. So yeah, chicks really do dig
it. Number seven:
love what you do. You know it's really
funny because I can still remember the
very first job that I worked on and
every time we're down by there I always
drive over by it and I tell my wife: look
I don't know if you remember, but you
know I worked on this building, this is
where my plumbing career started and she
laughs and says: yeah I hear it every
time we're down here. Guys you really do
get excited, every time I see the Dallas
skyline I can point out buildings that
I've worked on. Guys plumbing is a great
career, it's something you can love.
Number eight: work for yourself. Guys you
can always move up, get your master
license. Here in Texas it's required to open
your own company, you also have to be
registered as an RMP - responsible master
plumber and take the course for that. But
guys you can open your own company
without a college education. You can grow
and grow yourself into whatever you want
to be. Number nine: guys, this is a career
it's not just a job. It'll start out as a
job, but the more you learn, the better
you get, the more it becomes a career and
you can turn this into whatever you want
to turn it into. If all you want to be is
a plumber, I'll pick up my tools, I
install pipe,
everyday kind of plumber you can. If you
want to be a plumber, where all I do is I
grab my tool bag, I throw it in the van
and I run a service vehicle and I take
care of people all day. Guys there's
nothing wrong with that.
I know some great plumbers, I know some
great plumbers, that make a great living
and they enjoy their life. They don't
have to deal with a lot of the headaches
that a lot of business owners do. So
understand that it's a career, not a job.
And number 10: the best reason why to
become a plumber, because electricians
suck! Not really.
But guys ,I've never wanted to get
shocked by electricity, so becoming an
electrician was not a thing that I
wanted to do, so I decided to become a
plumber. I don't mind getting wet, it
really doesn't bother me. Guys I hope
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