18th Amdt 2 exam.

Trouble is many people don’t know enough to know what they don’t know, so don’t know their own limits.

But there’s a really serious skills shortage, so the people who don’t know what they are doing are actually getting paid good money but failing to deliver the required end result.

I have the phone numbers of over a hundred plumbers who install bathrooms on my phone, but there’s no more than half a dozen I would allow to work in my house, what I am seeing on some jobs is beyond belief.

This morning I have driven to work trying to decide what to do work-wise for the next few years, the idea that I can work as a subbie for a large contractor as part of a team seems to be a thing of the past, because generally there just just isn’t enough skilled people to create teams.

So it looks like I am having to go back to being completely “self contained” and work completely on my own, it probably time to go back to the plan I had four years ago to find some good customers and do everything they want done, a “facilities management” approach mowing their grass as well as doing their electrical work, rather than having to keep finding new customers or subbing doing purely electrical work.

Something has to change as it seems the whole building trade and is not trading as it should be, mainly due to the skills shortage, but also the lack of people under forty coming through to replace those who are retiring from it.

Trouble is many people don’t know enough to know what they don’t know, so don’t know their own limits.

But there’s a really serious skills shortage, so the people who don’t know what they are doing are actually getting paid good money but failing to deliver the required end result.

I have the phone numbers of over a hundred plumbers who install bathrooms on my phone, but there’s no more than half a dozen I would allow to work in my house, what I am seeing on some jobs is beyond belief.

This morning I have driven to work trying to decide what to do work-wise for the next few years, the idea that I can work as a subbie for a large contractor as part of a team seems to be a thing of the past, because generally there just just isn’t enough skilled people to create teams.

So it looks like I am having to go back to being completely “self contained” and work completely on my own, it probably time to go back to the plan I had four years ago to find some good customers and do everything they want done, a “facilities management” approach mowing their grass as well as doing their electrical work, rather than having to keep finding new customers or subbing doing purely electrical work.

Something has to change as it seems the whole building trade and is not trading as it should be, mainly due to the skills shortage, but also the lack of people under forty coming through to replace those who are retiring from it.