People have no idea how much money plumbers and electricians make in comparison to the amount of work required. A little knowledge and a little elbow grease and your irreplaceable thanks to soy boys not knowing how to use a screw driver.
No offense but I see that insult thrown around all the time but it's just millenium speak that refers to people whom likely you have never met either.
Every person I know who is a man knows how to use a screwdriver and hammer, what they don't know how do is design shit or the right tools for the job, but these days everyone says 'watch YouTube and figured it out'....
So honestly. I think it's women and seniors and businesses that need plumbers...not the average guy.
I have installed a couple toilets, replaced a sink, a new shower, and removed a tub etc....none of us were plumbers...we didn't know what we were doing and we just got to it because we also didn't know any plumbers and had no money for plumbers.....so I think you are missing some stuff that is happening....it's not just....learn plumbing get work
.....
Yeah. Not many are completely incapable of doing some projects. But also you know the man who's work it is to do these things simply has more knowledge, experience, available tools, etc and it's worth me just paying them to do it.
Was actually just having a convo with a coworker about this yesterday. Every one wants to be a DIY'r until it comes to court and taxes don't they?!
Specialize in something yourself. For me this is finance. So my specialty is used to pay the man that specializes in plumbing. When the plumber takes his money and wants to know how to make more money with money he has he may come to me, as this is my specialty.
Of course I have installed sinks and hell I even worked on a job when I was much younger digging out a graded trench but that's somewhere around the time I realized I didn't want to do plumbing forever!! For these things I will gladly pay someone who has been in this work to use their knowledge, tools, and ability to solve my problem for me. This allows me to be freed up to continue to use my specialty for my clients. And on and on.
This is literally the fundamental elements of economics, it's been working like this since the dawn of civilization. It is good to know some plumbing and it is good to know some finance, it is good to know some of everything. But a day comes when one realizes they must learn all of one thing to
be of any value to others who simply had to make a choice with their time to learn something else. That's it.
Respect your plumbers. But also realize that the man without calloused hands is capable of installing a garbage disposal, it would just be strictly innifficient for him to do so.
I can also change my own oil and I was taught to do so to save money during a time when I had none. Well, now, it's more efficient for me to have the guys at jiffy lube do it in sub 15 minutes and also provide a coupon for a free car wash! I can't beat that for using no energy of my own.
It's simply no longer efficient for me to do some small things myself, and for things that are above my head I am then reliant on those plumbers to solve these problems for me so I gladly pay them what they need as it would be doubly inefficient for me to solve the problem myself.
I'm a plumber, I make plenty of money without a single ad now.
People have no idea how much money plumbers and electricians make in comparison to the amount of work required. A little knowledge and a little elbow grease and your irreplaceable thanks to soy boys not knowing how to use a screw driver.
No offense but I see that insult thrown around all the time but it's just millenium speak that refers to people whom likely you have never met either.
Every person I know who is a man knows how to use a screwdriver and hammer, what they don't know how do is design shit or the right tools for the job, but these days everyone says 'watch YouTube and figured it out'....
So honestly. I think it's women and seniors and businesses that need plumbers...not the average guy.
I have installed a couple toilets, replaced a sink, a new shower, and removed a tub etc....none of us were plumbers...we didn't know what we were doing and we just got to it because we also didn't know any plumbers and had no money for plumbers.....so I think you are missing some stuff that is happening....it's not just....learn plumbing get work .....
Yeah. Not many are completely incapable of doing some projects. But also you know the man who's work it is to do these things simply has more knowledge, experience, available tools, etc and it's worth me just paying them to do it.
Was actually just having a convo with a coworker about this yesterday. Every one wants to be a DIY'r until it comes to court and taxes don't they?!
Specialize in something yourself. For me this is finance. So my specialty is used to pay the man that specializes in plumbing. When the plumber takes his money and wants to know how to make more money with money he has he may come to me, as this is my specialty.
Of course I have installed sinks and hell I even worked on a job when I was much younger digging out a graded trench but that's somewhere around the time I realized I didn't want to do plumbing forever!! For these things I will gladly pay someone who has been in this work to use their knowledge, tools, and ability to solve my problem for me. This allows me to be freed up to continue to use my specialty for my clients. And on and on.
This is literally the fundamental elements of economics, it's been working like this since the dawn of civilization. It is good to know some plumbing and it is good to know some finance, it is good to know some of everything. But a day comes when one realizes they must learn all of one thing to be of any value to others who simply had to make a choice with their time to learn something else. That's it.
Respect your plumbers. But also realize that the man without calloused hands is capable of installing a garbage disposal, it would just be strictly innifficient for him to do so.
I can also change my own oil and I was taught to do so to save money during a time when I had none. Well, now, it's more efficient for me to have the guys at jiffy lube do it in sub 15 minutes and also provide a coupon for a free car wash! I can't beat that for using no energy of my own.
It's simply no longer efficient for me to do some small things myself, and for things that are above my head I am then reliant on those plumbers to solve these problems for me so I gladly pay them what they need as it would be doubly inefficient for me to solve the problem myself.
Specialize, specialize, specialize.