know any female plumbers wanting some work experience?

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ahh, tamz, can i assume you dont have a son maybe? i bet ud love her to follow you, which is why my dad(carpenter by trade...now a pen pusher! doing all the office side of business) persuaded me to try plumbing for 2 weeks, which ended in 8 years plumbing so far!

i will agree with you with the HNC.... i originally started it because it was the next step. i didnt want to stop college just because i had completed my plumbing... i wanted more.. so i done the above. before i decided to go self employed, i was trying to get a job as a trainee.....something!... quantity surveyor, mechanical engineer,architect... but the main thing was building control, but i had no luck, so carried on as a plumber, i just went self employed and built up my own work.

 

[tamz]

dont worry ecowarm, ive already been told off for language!naughty naughty!

being on site makes you realise how petty girls can be normally and i had to 'man up' a bit when i first went on site at 16! cant keep going home crying every day!! haha .... booo hhooooooo

blokes banter is different to girls banter, but i prefer it now! at least u guys say what you think and i can say it back without some one getting upset! x

The wee woman i am now married to is/was a scaffolder (all 4ft 11" of her) well she is a scaffold inspector. I first met her 20 odd years ago when she was working in a site office. She was the cow who wouldn't sign or get signed the dayworks orders. Never saw her for years then she turned up on a job i was at to sign off the scaffold. I was divorced by then so her pants naturally slid down her legs :lol:
She has always worked in a mans world and can give as good as she gets and i have never thought for a minute she couldn't deal with it but sometimes i know she does feel uncomfortable on occasion but she won't say what or who because i would go into mong mode with whoever it was if she told me.
As i said Claire, i admire you for what you have chosen to do and i hope you make a successful life from it.

 

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thanks,

and im loving the comment about the pants sliding down!!! hahahhaha

 

[ecowarm]

I agree to a certain extent dancin, I have absolutlly no problem with women coming into the trade and as claire is a prime example, a credit to the trade. What I do have a problem with are the training schools and the 6 week wonders, fast tracked paperwork but no experience. I have spent a life time getting experience and still learning to this day, colleges spitting out so called trained people into the world makes me cringe. There are some of the so called fast trackers who will make it, through determination and self belief, but many more will fail, not their fault they have been "Lead up the garden path" IMHO

Sorry if that seemed like a rant, I can assure you it wasn't.

 

[tamz]

thanks,

and im loving the comment about the pants sliding down!!! hahahhaha

I can't believe i typed that :lol:

 

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ecowarm, i completely agree, these '6 week' courses, or 'fast track' courses are just scams to make money, i looked into them recently as a bloke i know is doing it and im tryint to persuade him to not waste his money... hes spening £6000 on an intensive course...he will prob come out knowing how to tighten a compression fitting....push it to maybe a hep joint, but thats about it!

tamz, i LOVE your honesty. you must be a hottie if you could get her knickers off as soon as you met eyes!hahaha xx

 

[ecowarm]

tamz, i LOVE your honesty. you must be a hottie if you could get her knickers off as soon as you met eyes!hahaha xx

I think you have number 3 wife waiting tamz, you must have something you HOTTIE lol

 

[dancinplumba]

its the kilt and the knees

 

[ecowarm]

aye the knees after pulling 1 1/4" bends

 

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woooah... back track..dancinplumber is not only a dancing plumber, he is scottish, wearing a kilt? whoooaaahhh!! don yer tartan!
i hope no pants are involved...only thinking about the tradition ofcorse!

 

[justlead1]

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hahahaha...reading back at these posts, this is soooo unprofessional!

ecowarm, nothing wrong with saying 'hottie'! i would of said 'fit', but isnt that maybe a too young of a word for the age i assume im talking to?

 

[tamz]

tamz, i LOVE your honesty. you must be a hottie if you could get her knickers off as soon as you met eyes!hahaha xx

I knew they would be off as soon as i saw her stepping out the car :lol: Full of the Alpha male hormones so she tells me! but i'd better get those ideas out my head :smile: She is not daft and knows the script and i am getting too old for any more of that carry on.

I hope you hang around from time to time Claire. We could do with some more of the fairer sex views on things. CmairiD is another switched on lady contributor and you seem fit and able enough to deal with a bit man crack too (men as you will know are all really ******* at heart and easily put down :lol

 

[dancinplumba]

]I knew they would be off as soon as i saw her stepping out the car[/B] :lol: Full of the Alpha male hormones so she tells me! but i'd better get those ideas out my head :smile: She is not daft and knows the script and i am getting too old for any more of that carry on.

I hope you hang around from time to time Claire. We could do with some more of the fairer sex views on things. CmairiD is another switched on lady contributor and you seem fit and able enough to deal with a bit man crack too (men as you will know are all really ******* at heart and easily put down :lol

lol remember that say no more and agree tamz
edit: not with you tamz lol

 

[ecowarm]

hahahaha...reading back at these posts, this is soooo unprofessional!

ecowarm, nothing wrong with saying 'hottie'! i would of said 'fit', but isnt that maybe a too young of a word for the age i assume im talking to?

Agest comment if ever I heard one

 

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OMG... sorry, i meant TAMZ... sorry dancing queen.... ohhh, i mean dancinplumba. are you a dancing queen at heart though? i think we all are actually.

tamz, you sound really cool, and your wife sounds like a good laugh. is it rude to ask your age?!

ive been on here for some time but too scared to ask anythin coz ive read things sometimes that some people have slatted them for, but i think, if you dont know some thing, you dont know it, and at least youur taking the time to find out unlike some people who just guess and hope for the best!
x

 

[ecowarm]

And even though im nearlly 50 I still use the the word "FIT" in the same way as the youngsters by the way???????

 

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ecowarm...???

 

[dancinplumba]

OMG... sorry, i meant TAMZ... sorry dancing queen.... ohhh, i mean dancinplumba. are you a dancing queen at heart though? i think we all are actually.

tamz, you sound really cool, and your wife sounds like a good laugh. is it rude to ask your age?!

ive been on here for some time but too scared to ask anythin coz ive read things sometimes that some people have slatted them for, but i think, if you dont know some thing, you dont know it, and at least youur taking the time to find out unlike some people who just guess and hope for the best!
x

ouch!!!

 

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ecowarm... we are trying to figure out the way people r saying things over internet, so its hard to know whatv the person is like... na what i mean?!!!!

nearly 50 is young... om only HALF ur age... haha!!

 

[ecowarm]

Claire?? im double your age

 

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ecowarm...ur not double my age, you are my age but doubled! (sorry, i coulnt think of any thing better...but i bet you dont act or feel it )
dancinplumba....you are my one and olny daning KING x

 

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sorry,i meant DANCING

 

[tamz]

I'm 54. Some may say i'm past it but the Bride (my wee darling) still thinks i'm the mutts so that is all that counts. You feel free to jump in and comment or dis anyone you like. You have taken the BIG step of coming forward so the rest is easy. We have loads of experience between us and most of the guys (well it is mainly guys as you know) will offewr advice on anything. Being self employed can be a lonely tyhing. We, well some of us, have had the life experience of doing most things and we will help wherever we can.

Btw just for you're coming out (no longer lurking thingy )

 

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thanks tamz.

i have noticed all the weird spelling mistakes made by me tonight, i would like to blame that on the computer for being too slow with my mega fast typing... or the slow computer... or the keys just aint big enough! x