There is a reason these have been historically poorly paid jobs.
Really?
What reason was that?
Because historically Tradesman jobs were always a cut or two above the average. Far better than the work of mere labourers or general workers. You couldn't just do them, you needed to serve your apprenticeship, prove yourself and become qualified, go through the Journeyman stage and then finally be certified as producing masterwork before you're even allowed into the trade guild. It took many years.
The best of them were serious artisans and the craft guilds were of such high social standing that they effectively deposed the entire Merchant Class that had previously dominated that band.
Sorry, what education level do you need to become an electrician?
General Secondary School education? None.
Specific regulated and certified Electrical education? Lots. An apprenticeship is about 4 years. Plus on-the-job training is just practical education rather than bookschool classroom academia. It's still education.
A levels, degree. Thats what people consider an education.
Is that why so many booksmart "educated" types can't even tie their own shoelaces? Because it's not something they were taught from a book at Academic School?
Is that also why so many booksmart "educated" types get jobs in management and stuff up our business, costing you a load of money in increased bills?
Every job required training.
There is a BIG difference bewteen academic education and trade-specific education.
I could teach you every inch of the theory behind flying a helicopter, but no amount of bookwork qualifies you to actually hop in one and fly it competently. That still takes many many hours of supervised training.
There are plenty that require exams to become certified but to become a doctor you do 2 years of a-levels, 5 years of medical school, 2 years pre-reg and then you have plenty of other exams if you want to progress.
There are trade jobs that take just as long to qualify for their levels of expertise.
I know I'm not a qualified electrician. That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you don't have to be particularly bright to be one
Actually you do.
What you forget is that there's a BIG difference between intelligence and wisdom.... although you clearly rolled a 1 on both!!
We don't pay people based on their intelligence, we pay them based on the job they do.
So go do it yourself, then. See how well you manage.
You can be back and forth to college to get a beauticians qualification for years, whats that got to do with anything.
You can look up medican conditions on Wikipedia without having to attend medical school.....
My very simple point is that a lot of trades charge a lot of money for a job that is not massively skilled.
Most of the people they charge have absolutely no idea what skill is involved and what it cost just to get to that level of skill and acquire that level of knowledge, let alone the cost of tools and so on.
Those few who do know how skilled it really is are still paying massive amounts of money, because they're too lazy/unskilled/busy to do it themselves and so are buying the convenience of some else's time.
Your local pubs chef probably isn't as good as a michelin star chef and their salaries reflect that.
You don't ask your local pub chef to cater for a White Tie banquet of foreign dignatories either, though. Same as you don't ask a kid with a soldering iron and a year of GCSE electronics to rewire your house.
The simple fact is that the work that residential electricians do is not very hard from a technical standpoint. Same for plumbing etc.
From a theoretical academic standpoint, perhaps. Same as carpentry. Go watch some videos of, say, Rob Cosman, see how easily he dovetails a joint in under 3½ minutes... but just you try and do it anything like how he can.
This is not your book theory, this is actual delivery of physical results and if it wasn't that hard, we'd all be doing it.
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