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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A plumber yesterday told me they charge $420 per hour.  I was shocked inflation drove plumbing service to $420 per hour!  Now how many college majors offer $420 per hour, even ten years post-graduation?   And the icing on the cake is AI will not replace residential plumbing maintenance jobs![/quote]

Earlier this week, I had a plumber snake a clogged kitchen sink drain - he charged $350 for 35 minutes of effort! [/quote]

yes, I got hit for $500 to fix my dishwasher drain. He was here for 45 minutes and is an independant (no overhead). I was bitter.  Its getting outrageous. But cant help but hit the panic switch when water is leaking.[/quote]
[b]I told my DH who is an engineer and good at fixing stuff that he could always be a handy man when he retires around our UMC neighborhood to earn extra cash.[/b] He also likes working on the house.  A very educated friend of his was being charged $700 for something that DH fixed in 30min with a $35 part.

DH is trying to teach our college aged DS how to fix stuff. DS is interested in learning.

We have so many well educated people in this area who can't fix things around the house.  A plumber can easily make a ton of money around here.  But, it's also physically harder to be a plumber.  Don't see a lot of 60 yr old plumbers around.[/quote]

My dad did that when he got laid off in his late 50s and wasn't able to get another professional position. I think he was a lot happier doing that! And he taught my nephew, who lived nearby, how to do it too and now nephew earns cash for college as handyman with a few regular clients. [/quote]
PP here..

Schools need to go back to having [b]shop or woodworking class as a requirement[/b]. I had to take home ec in MS, and also took woodworking.  And I'm a female.

DS took some kind of shop class as an elective in HS as an "easy A" type class, and he had a lot of fun. He was in a magnet program, but wanted to take a fun class for once.  They made some interesting things.

DH also has taught our DD to use power tools. She loves using those; she feels so empowered when she's got a power tool in her hands. Lol[/quote]

that isn't enough. i'm class of 2002 and we had shop/woodworking requirement in our 'college prep school' but that really isn't enough looking back at it. I think it needs to be 50% regular school and 50% vocational classes.

and the culture has to change because right now the vocational schools (well many of them) are used as 'dumping grounds' for many kids that the regular schools don't want to deal with [/quote]

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