When we moved onto a new development our house was one of the first built, only 5 years ago, so we had a construction site on our doorstep for a few years, saw plenty of young lads in all trades.
Depends on the trade, I guess. Here, plenty want to be electricians, machine drivers and plumbers, as the money is decent and easy to set up a small company. Not so many want to be asfalters, work in factories or do concrete work. (Brickies are rare, as the weather means not so many brick buildings).
Cant have been the development we are on at kingswood....the only young bastards we see are the afore mentioned ones......causing havoc when we leave....also lots of young black lads forming gangs too....just saying
Yes, an estimated shortage of 140,000 construction workers at the moment.
Poles must have gone home.
That's certainly one of the issues, as is many retiring without the jobs being taken up by younger lads.
Which in some ways highlights the choices on leaving education nowadays?
Nationally yes, population explosion in the SE perhaps? I'm talking about house building locally which has increased in the last decade, Beverley, Kingswood, Willerby, Anlaby, Brough, all you see on local social media groups is old gits complaining about 'more bloody houses being built', which are being built and bought mostly by people younger than the ones complaining!
I've worked what was originally termed semi-skilled/skilled manual labour all my life since the early 1990s. The pay has always been 'ok', but the work - mostly outside in ****ty weather conditions, dirt and grease, and lugging around heavy tools and equipment, always something that can go wrong and be dangerous. When I hit 40s, I moved sideways via modernisation to monitoring systems, but still had to do the same work when fixes became necessary.
And lasses dont forget...we have a female bricky works with us...served her apprenticeship with us and she is a right good grafter really good work ethic and attitude too...
Bigger salary?.....ive been a bricky for 48 years....never been out of graft ...always made a very good living...wear the correct boots and my feet have never been cold!
My youngest lad left school in 2008 with reasonable qualifications and immediately found work in Cumbernauld inland revenue(chasing up taxes etc).Lasted probably 7 or 8 years doing that kind of work but couldn't hack the cliques,cronyism and nepotism within the civil service.
The insurance company sent a young female plumber into my youngest lasses home recently after an extensive water escape from her bathroom.Best plumbing work I've seen done in many a year!!!
Very much so.
