PSA - Doomsday And The Trades - Kool And The Gang Say Celebrate (1 Viewer)

[rockaction]

Knock out the power. Knock out the plumbing systems. Knock out the construction knowledge, the wiring, and the HVAC and where are we?

I think that specialization has left us all incredibly enriched and incredibly vulnerable. The precipice we sit upon is as narrow as Wile E. Coyote's cliff perch. Just ready to break off, leave a poof of smoke, and defy gravity while smacking us in the noggin.

Let's celebrate the trades, ladies and gentlemen. 

 

[ChiefD]

Knock out the power. Knock out the plumbing systems. Knock out the construction knowledge, the wiring, and the HVAC and where are we?

I think that specialization has left us all incredibly enriched and incredibly vulnerable. The precipice we sit upon is as narrow as Wile E. Coyote's cliff perch. Just ready to break off, leave a poof of smoke, and defy gravity while smacking us in the noggin.

Let's celebrate the trades, ladies and gentlemen. 

Damn right.

Send me a good HVAC tech right now and I’ll hire ‘em.

On the bright side I will always be able to find work charging handsomely doing work for all the mandy-pandys out there who can’t swing a hammer.

 

[rockaction]

Damn right.

Send me a good HVAC tech right now and I’ll hire ‘em.

On the bright side I will always be able to find work charging handsomely doing work for all the mandy-pandys out there who can’t swing a hammer.

Such demand, so many of us mandy-pandys going off to college to get 2.4s in Economics (no, I'm not looking at myself...okay...maybe) and can't fix a darn thing around the house nor identify a short call when there is one. Just functionally incapable. I would have been so much better off if someone had grabbed the scruff of my neck when I was nineteen and said, "You hate this. Figure out how to wire a building without killing yourself and you'll have it made. Plus, tools!"

 

[Cowboysfan8]

I can wire a house without killing my self, and I don’t have it made if it makes you feel any better

 

[rockaction]

I can wire a house without killing my self, and I don’t have it made if it makes you feel any better

I meant earn a comfortable living, but I getcha. A little hyperbole on my part. I'm sort of laughing and lauding the electrically effective. My brother's stepdaughter's former husband (a great kid, now man) is an electrician by trade. He can wire a building and doesn't have it made either (child support and alimony will do that, mang). I'm all unmarried but still like: This wire goes where? BZZZT.