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monarch🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 :
get your GCSEs. yes trade work is good but if you can make the same or more in a office do it. I didn't get any GCSEs, did trade for 10 years, got injured so bad I couldn't walk 6 months
2024-08-22 17:38:09
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jona leprcy :
Everyone hating on these lads, yet 10 years time when they’ve got their own buissness making good bread and all them kids who got good results and went into uni are sat in a dead end job making half
2024-08-22 19:17:08
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jamie :
£600 for every 1000 bricks laid, an average house has 12000 and the average bricklayer should be able to lay 500-600 bricks a day so you all do the math bricklaying is not a bad career choice
2024-08-22 19:37:45
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JayyTyzz :
It is true though. GCSES change your whole career , failed all mine and went into a multi skill , joinery plastering and bricklaying. Didn’t need a whole lot of maths just the basics basically -
2024-08-22 22:52:24
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RabMcNaught :
Got an electrical apprentice at 16 in 1998 and I wasn’t great at school, below average grades. Been in work in ever since and been consistently earning over 60k per year for as long.
2024-08-22 17:45:11
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ArcadeBD :
Forget GCSE I have wasted my whole life pursuing on Uni degrees that are absolutely garbage Even to the point I got rejected in Every jobs This job is skilled and they earn more than me Well done lad
2024-08-22 18:15:51
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Shannon Baron :
I got GCSE’s by brother didn’t, he’s a qualified brickie & is on more money than me & younger than me. He’s good at what he does & works hard! People are too quick to judge 🤦♀️
2024-08-23 09:14:53
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SR.hot.uk :
school environment is not for all students, some better learn by doing not just reading books, so yeah gcse is not the end but make sure you have minimum math and English gcse and if possible have IT
2024-08-22 22:53:03
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xandey :
It’s probably quite fun inside a heated and cooled workshop but outside in the rain waking up at 6am and going home at 5 in the winter won’t be so fun
2024-08-23 09:27:24
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ClubScrubs :
Why is everyone so judgemental in the comments, not everyone was smart in school and Atleast they won’t be 60K in debt from Uni. They learn valuable life skills and probably run there own firm one day
2024-08-22 19:14:37
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harrisonpatrick06 :
I'm 18 and want to be a brickie but I can't go college to get my qualifications because it's hard to find another job than I'm doing I do a full time job cleaning and I hate it
2024-08-22 17:40:48
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Cycek :
Im 18, just finished a levels, ive worked construction for about 2 months now, I hate it, the mess, the environment, the physical labour, applied for uni next September 👍
2024-08-22 22:01:21
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Sam Higgins :
Wow people are really horrible towards brickwork. Ive been working with my dad doinng traditional bricklaying for years now. It is a skill, i dont wanna hear no different from anyone who has never
2024-10-14 15:52:13
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rick10246 :
I didn’t get any GCSEs as the education system does not cater for dyslexia however, went into the building games and now has academic people working for me
2024-08-22 18:56:21
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✨Rhian✨ :
My son got 12 GCSE’s but didn’t pass maths, yet he still got into ancient history and geography A levels and a diploma in criminology 🤷♀️
2024-08-22 23:30:45
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swazanelli :
All u hating on bricklayers would never hate on accountants. I've done both my bricklaying apprenticeship and I'm abt to do my accountancy one. Both require the same amount to start 🤡
2024-08-23 23:12:00
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Sam t 🫥 :
Love how ppl don’t know how much u can actually make if you’re good at a trade. Im doing management myself but I never knew how much u can make working on price until I started working on site
2024-08-22 21:15:12
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Samuel Young :
Wish I’d known how well trades pay when I was in school. Doing an apprenticeship would have been so much better for me than any kind of academic career. School makes out that it’s not a good option
2024-08-22 20:32:14
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p3rce🔻🕷️ :
i gotta do an extra year in maths and english. unless i get 4s in both i cant do my bricklaying. i was so upset yesterday.
2024-08-24 12:05:31
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judejonesbmx :
I took and passed my level 3 apprenticeship in bricklaying! Great trade and gives a great future, unfortunate to see so many narrow minded people in the comments 🙏 it helped me achieve my dream
2024-08-22 21:01:11
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z :
30p for a single brick laid, average brick layer can do about 600 bricks a day. thats £180 a day, 5 days a week 52 weeks in a year = £46800 annual
2024-08-28 15:05:17
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