Who's going to do the repairs in the future?
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- čas přidán 25. 02. 2023
- I believe their will be lots of opportunities to make alot of money in the future by staying or joining the repair services. Supply and demand will play a very large roll in shaping this industry.
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I strongly believe the right crowd is listening
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You said that really well! agree 100%!
Thanks!
Nailed it.
Thanks! I really appreciate 🙏
CZcams is a good tool I do my own plumbing on my own home it's nice to know
Of course!! You're gonna save alot of money, but most importantly not gonna relly on others.
So true 👍
Thanks Ray. How is everything going? You're definitely old school I see alot of the repairs you do. If you've never fixed you'll figure it out for sure.
I find this fun even tho it's a lot of going up and down stairs and laying under sinks I like it when I get to fix or install something 😄
I would guess I'm 10 years younger then your self. I've had a 23 year old tech teach me a few things. its a constant exchange of information. Everything is peer taught or learned off the internet.
That's great, it's amazing how much knowledge their is out there for the taking.
You can’t teach common sense but If you have that and are young you are way ahead than most. The constant exchange of information is absolutely right, even this CZcams channel you learn a lot.
@@HandyRandyReviews absolutely!!
There is a reason why Trades wages are up. Tradesmen and handyman type individuals are becoming more valuable as demand goes up and the supply of workers is down. Bobby^ also has a good point because I use CZcams for work when i don’t know how to do something. I work as apartment maintenance full time and do handyman/electrician work on the side while working on my masters degree (to increase my value in the job market). Idk if you’d exactly call me a young guy but i’m 25.
You're young and doing great!! Congrats and I'm sure you will always have a job, motivated poeple will always find success
LOL at 70 you seem young to me... but I am around people your age all the time. I bet you had a dad or mentor that showed you some stuff about fixing things and tools in general? I take maybe a dozen newbies out shooting for their first time every year... Two or three of my old guy friends have home shops and same for them. Always young guys hanging out watching us old curmudgeons cussing and wrestling hot rods into line. You tube is the greatest! I learn stuff.... some guns are so complex and not intuitive and.... 50-100 years old.. that I will watch a youtube on it. I will often watch and pause it for each step. I can download stuff on the internet.... these are things we never had before. I have dozens of physical 'manuals' for automotive and guns etc. Also lots of 'basic woodworking' or electrical or whatever. I rarely use em now with all the valuable info at our fingertips. Ok... us old dogs need to learn too. A 'kid' your age... showed me shark fittings for copper supply lines.... I will never do it the hard way again LOL.
@@doranmaxwell1755 You’re exactly right, I followed my grandfather (76) around everywhere doing things as I was growing up. He is a hobby farmer and business entrepreneur among many other things, a great man at that. He still works everyday and has never retired under his own will. I’ve learned more from him than I ever did from another person. Now, I use that knowledge and interest for employment and personal applications. My favorite quote from him is “It ain’t worth livin if you don’t learn something new everyday”.
I use shark bites, but it is still useful to know the old fashioned way. CZcams is a wonderful tool for life, most anything you can fix can be found on here.
@@HandyRandyReviews To me several things are much much different than the old days. One is the simple fact that many things were not meant to be worked on. Take a Seiko watch you can have all of mine... LOl... soo.. they are cheap. run great until they don't. Are you gonna do $200 worth of work on a $100 watch? that is now 5 years old? No you will just buy a new one and run it till it drops. that is an example but their are hundreds of products like that. I would say that 8 out 10 things we buy are meant to run X amount of years then throw away. Nothing is immune. Guns used to be but starting with the nylon 66 series where the receiver. is Nylon and everything rides in that... once that is worn? nothing you can do... Same for polymer and aluminum. The other thing that is a good thing,.. is the internet to guide us on stuff that can be fixed. Aaand.... cheap tools.... I have lots of quality tools but.. for things I seldom if ever do? and are not muscle intensive? cheap HF tools are fine. If you find you are doing that job more and more often? get a quality tool.
Well.... the world you and I grew up in we had to change points and plugs in the car to go on vacation and probly blow a tire cause they only lasted about 10k miles. Everything we owned needed maintaining. you are correct that there will always be a need but maybe different. everything lasts a really long time until it is unfixable. And yeah... youtube will show you the way on a lot of stuff but the kids rarely even do that. Its a shame tho cause it is getting harder and harder to make ends meet for young people
You're correct, the problem with the new generations is they are use to paying for everything but can't really afford it. Calling a plumber fpr a clogged toilet puts alot of debt on credit cards.
@@MaintenanceManNarratives I agree. There are a LOT of things they can do themselves. In the old days we did everything including building or adding on to your own home. I am a few decades older than you but we have seen the same things I think.. We had a network of friends and everyone would help everyone else with projects. In the toilet example tho? That is a waste of time and money. Calling a plumber means that you will end up spending more TIME than if you did it yourself. That is what I try to get through to younger folks. Other more complex plumbing or electrical? Again.... time is money. If you make $150 an hour (some of these guys do) then you spending hours on a project you can get done (and done right) for a few hundred bucks makes no sense. And... Tools. I have collected them over the years and bought/buy em as I need em.. most of these guys own not a tool one. Most women I know have more tools. One of my favorite gifts for such people is a cheap cordless drill. Once they get some tools they tend to try more things. Most never had a dad or had one just as clueless as them. Think about it. You come from a family of watchmakers they taught you stuff. I come from a family of construction workers. I work on old motorcyles and hot rods... my garage door is open most of the time. once in a while a kid will come by pushing his bike... "excuse me sir but can you look at my bike? the chain came off" I help em but I make them do the actual work. It all has to start somewhere.
Preach Pepe! At my property we have two positions open and we cannot find anybody.
My company pays above $20 per hour and has good benefits and work life balance and on call every 6 weeks and still no takers,
Yea, not many are interested in this trade right now. But it's amazing how much wages have gone up in the last couple of years!! Good luck!! And thanks for you comment.
I would love to get into this trade I’m 20 but not a lot of people want people with barley any experience
Apartment maintenance is a great place to start, we do almost all the trades and you can get alot of experience and decide what you like best.
I’m 28 and might just have my first maintenance technician job
Last summer I got an offer to work for JET plumbing/heating and air. I barely know anything about hvac but was ready to learn. I enjoy learning new things and beings hands on and getting dirty. I'm in maintenance at the time I got offered the job. I was already getting paid $25 an hour being maintenance. JET offered me $16 an hour. I was pretty let down on the pay. I thought these trades were desperate for a younger crowd of workers but who the hell can live off of $16 an hour nowadays?. I stuck with my maintenance job and now I'm a supervisor. I don't regret it but I would of liked to of become an hvac tech because even til now I don't know everything so I youtube alot of things. I think companies like JET or any other trade start to low for pay and make it difficult to attain a job.
Hvac companies start guys as installers and it take years to move up to service techs. But I have noticed that maintenance is paying very competitive and without havind to sell anything. Thanks for you comment
Good video, I’m in the trades and what I’m seeing is the younger guys that come out of apprenticeship are going right into a foremen spot , at least in my geographic area.
I've seen that too!! Some come out of school with no real experience and think they're going to change the world 're-envent the wheel'. Common knowledge and years of experience should definitely be a requirement.
@@MaintenanceManNarratives absolutely
old dudes like us
Yep!! We're still fixing the world 😎
I'm in high school right now seriously considering the trades for this exact reason. My end goal would be to work as an HVAC tech or electrician, but I want to start with maintenance because I feel like its the best way to learn a lot of different things and be a good transition from the restaurants I've been working in.
Great idea!! That is exactly what I would do. You will get alot of experience in maintenance doing many different things. And that will help you un the long run in whatever trade you go to!! Best of luck!
Today, in about 2 hours I'm starting a new maintenance job for a county agency with 25 locations around the county. The starting pay sounds good to me at $18.21an hour (I remember making $3 an hour) with good benefits and a $2500 signing bonus. I'm 52 and have varying degrees of experience in steel fabrication, sheet metal, carpentry, HVAC, solar, landscaping, and ... and... . I even built $1K bird feeders back in the early 90's. I'm told that they will want me to take training courses and that when successfully completed I will receive a raises in pay. I'm excited and think this will be great way too gain experience for someday when I hopefully semi retire and can change fair but good money for handyman services.
Handymen are making good money right now. And they are doing some jobs that are fairly easy. Hanging tv mounts changing water faucets installing ceiling fans painting rooms ect ect. I wish you the best of luck in your new job 👍
@@MaintenanceManNarratives Thank you !
@@johnossendorf9979 welcomed
I agree, even 20 years ago when I got out of high school, the expectation was for everyone to go to college. Getting into a trade was not even something that was considered. But looking back, we should have been more open to that path because those jobs pay well and there is a high demand. 20 years later I'm now looking to get into this field but I don't have much experience in it because I did not start when I was young.
It was definitely different times, the trades didn't pay because everyone could fix everything. Now it's getting harder and harder to find poeple to do these repairs
Once people see that being a knowledgeable and professional maintenance technician, there will be more people getting into that field. Especially with the opportunity to set your own hours. Unless everything gets an IoT monitor that can self diagnose and alert some factory technician of some kind...
I think you're right, but also newer generations don't want to fix anything. They would rather pay. Simple stuff like hanging a tv stand or a door knob.