5 Great Reasons To Re-Train As A Plumber

If, like many people, you are considering starting your own business and becoming self-employed, you might want to re-train as a plumber before you begin and then open up your own plumbing business. There are many great reasons for choosing this career path, and here are just some of them. 

Job stability 

There are a handful of professionals that are always in demand. Doctors, nurses, veterinarians, and undertakers, for example. You can add plumbers to that list too. For many people, the water systems within their houses are completely unfathomable, and when they do wrong – as they are bound to do from time to time – they will need an expert (you) to come and fix them. A good plumber should always be able to find customers. 

Career advancement 

Due to the fact that plumbing is a licensed, regulated trade, everyone who is qualified has the chance to work their way up to master level if they want to. Imagine the referrals and phone calls you would get if you ran your own plumbing business and you were a master of plumbing. Your profits would be booming. 

A varied day 

Although as a business owner you will need to do your paperwork and administration tasks, for a lot of the time, you’ll be out on the road, in the fresh air, getting to meet new people. You might be installing boards from JustWedi in someone’s shower in the morning and fixing a leaking tap in the afternoon. You might be working in a house, an apartment, even in industrial areas. No two days will be the same, and you’ll have a great work-life balance too if you work for yourself. You can plan your day out to fit around your other commitments, and you’ll feel much more relaxed and happier for it. 

Benefits to you

Training as a plumber has many benefits, but the ones that help your own body and mind are some of the best. Because it’s an active job, you’ll keep fit and healthy physically. It also requires a lot of brain power to solve puzzles when it comes to how water is piped in or why something is leaking when it shouldn’t be. Having an active mind is beneficial too. Not only that, but a different kind of benefit is that you’ll never have to pay out for a plumber again; you can do all the work in your own home yourself and save yourself a lot of money. 

In the end, you’re going to be learning, which is vital when it comes to retraining. Technology is constantly changing, it’s advancing rapidly, and that means that you’ll need to keep up. Even when it comes to drain unblocking for streets, the tech in that has changed too. So, in the end, you’re doing yourself a major favour. 

Job satisfaction 

Not all jobs come with built-in job satisfaction, but plumbing does. When you walk away from a completed job, and your customer has clean running water that is safe to drink, or they can have a great shower, or their boiler is working again, you can pat yourself on the back and feel pleased with yourself. It makes getting up for work the next day much easier, knowing that you’ll be making people happy, and you can go to sleep at night with a smile on your face.