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People don't seem to mind paying for finishing trades such as tiling, wallpapering, joinery etc. and I can't imagine the 'regs' change too often - once you can wallpaper a room that's pretty much it. Carpet fitting can be hard on the knees, and painting is something people will have a go at themselves, so I'd probably stay away from those.

Apparently nail bars are really popular nowadays - spend all day painting finger nails.
 
Diesel Fitter specialising in mining equipment, mining companies in Australia will even help you with a visa as they are that short. Paying £35+ an hour for an 84 hour week.
 
like to see some honest opinions from sparks on which trade they think is going well at the moment (not many surely), but which they think is the most worth-while trade for youths of today? which trade they think will be going strong in the near future and be lots of demand for?
my mind is set on being an electrician (got a few quals) but i would still like to know what you guys think as you are in the know how, you see who are in work who are not etc...
cheers :)
scrap trade...metals.....
 
no... seriously i would like to think that sparkying is still at the top of the tree as technically it blows other trades away.....
Yes but there aren't many 'outsiders' who see it that way - electricians seem to be viewed as people who have spent 4 or 5 years learning what a 'normal' person could do with a bit of common sense and life experience, and maybe a 5 week crash course.
Constant updates, more and more red tape, part P... then at the end of it you get paid about the same as a wood butcher if you're lucky. Much of the work we do seems to be viewed as "health & safety gone mad" and we are accused of making a meal out of the simplest tasks such as wanting to chop walls up and lift floorboards to put wires in when we could probably just glue a socket front onto the wall and run it wirelessly.
Personally I love knowing about all the unseen stuff, but others might not find it as rewarding as something a bit more 'obvious'.
 
I do a lot of work for a high end kitchen bathroom company. All their fitters are self employed but more or less guaranteed full time work from the company. They all earn between £170 and £215 a day, every day. Now as an electrician I am paid a day rate of £225 per day when I do their wiring and I am younger than any of their fitters, but...I dont get full time work, they only call me when they need me, often at short notice and I'm rarly on one of their jobs more than 2 days in a row. Also I have to do all my own designing, ordering of materials, invoicing job registration, customer liasing etc so it works both ways.

I love being a sparky, I wouldn't do anything else but its not an easy thing to be successful at (not that anything is these days)
 
Failing that, have you considered becoming a prostitute tester and inspector?
 

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