jcrplast
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I wonder how many of your started out plastering by chance.Not something planned, ie you labored for a plasterer and just picked it up that way.I remember my mate richie being told by an older spread that he should get an apprentice to pass on the knowledge.So thats what he did.
Like most youngsters he didn't work out, and i think it put him off getting another apprentice. Little did he know that he already had an apprentice in me, someone who was watching from the start, asking questions, aching to pick up the trowel and give it a go.
I mentioned this to him over a few pints, and i dont think it sunk in, ..or if it did it didn't show lol.
There is a part of me thinking that there is a certain amount of snobbery attached to who is deemed a 'plasterer' , and that i didn't fit the title because i never did the full term in college and collected all the paperwork.I'm not sure if he seen it that way or not.I do remember us taking on other plasterers over the years, and one of them was someone we had met fresh out of college.He only lasted a few days because his finish was not there.I found out from him that he was being payed £90 a day, and back then me on £50.I just couldn't believe he would pay that guy £ 90 a day for work like that, and have me on £50.
What i'm trying to say is i think he looked on people who had done the college work as something more than someone who had picked the trade up on site.
Maybe he didn't want to be seen as not paying the going rate to 'proper ' plasterers ?.
Anyways just interested in how you got started, and your views on anything else.
Feel free to laugh, ridicule, and pick my post apart...kinda getting used to it hahaha.
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Like most youngsters he didn't work out, and i think it put him off getting another apprentice. Little did he know that he already had an apprentice in me, someone who was watching from the start, asking questions, aching to pick up the trowel and give it a go.
I mentioned this to him over a few pints, and i dont think it sunk in, ..or if it did it didn't show lol.
There is a part of me thinking that there is a certain amount of snobbery attached to who is deemed a 'plasterer' , and that i didn't fit the title because i never did the full term in college and collected all the paperwork.I'm not sure if he seen it that way or not.I do remember us taking on other plasterers over the years, and one of them was someone we had met fresh out of college.He only lasted a few days because his finish was not there.I found out from him that he was being payed £90 a day, and back then me on £50.I just couldn't believe he would pay that guy £ 90 a day for work like that, and have me on £50.
What i'm trying to say is i think he looked on people who had done the college work as something more than someone who had picked the trade up on site.
Maybe he didn't want to be seen as not paying the going rate to 'proper ' plasterers ?.
Anyways just interested in how you got started, and your views on anything else.
Feel free to laugh, ridicule, and pick my post apart...kinda getting used to it hahaha.
:RpS_thumbsup: