Quote Originally Posted by Tuerto View Post
How does a person train to be a plumber which is a minimum of three years with a placement, and in doing so, have to take time off work to do so, putting themselves in further poverty and debt. Maybe the government should give them 90 grand for the three years while they train in whatever it is that they want to do in order to improve their standing in life. Sadly, that money would have to be found somewhere, Tax increase maybe, although that would make us all poorer while these people prosper. It's a conundrum, that's for sure.
it can be done via " intensive courses " at skills centres ( as we ( both you and I ) used to know them as )

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10 days in a skills centre

this would certainly open the world of being employed as a plumbers mate ( as we used to call them ), they start every few weeks, so could be done with taking 2 weeks holidays

https://www.ytatraining.com/plumbing...umbing-course/

its certainly doable, I looked at it for training to be a " sparky " only last year