pipefitting a flourishing business
Pipe fitting is a job that in which you work with you hands, its is also a very flourishing and beneficial job.
Ever since i was a little kid i always had a lot of energy, i was always moving i didn't like to be still, you might be thinking that's all kid ,no not all well not a lot had the energy i had(partially due to slight A.D.D), i also loved touching thing i liked to do things with my hands. i remember when i was in fifth grade or so we lived in a apartment complex in beverton and our apartment was right next to a park, on one side of the park there was a big structure of trees, on the other side there was another big structures of trees. so me and about 12 other kids would have a side of the park and …show more content…
you get amazing benefits.fantastic pay, i mean $40 on average come on that's crazy, you get to use your hand every day you're always moving, you're apart of the union and you get spectacular benefits, what you didn't know is that in the next ten years the pipefitting industry is booming be cause the past generation (baby boomers) are all retired or retiring and pretty soon they would be short staffed, thats the main reason why the pipefitting business is flourishing. now the cons layovers is a con but is also a pro, in pipefitting you work for a company and the companies get contracts for building after the contract is up you don't have work until the company gets a nother one could be the very next day could be a month but in that time the company's lay some people over, you don't have to go looking for another job because the union provides unemployment income which is a little bit under half of what you make you can get unemployment for about six months with benefits before you have to start working again, but you still don't have to go and look for a job because what the union does is they look for another company for you to work with so getting laid over is like a very extended paid vacation. now you might be thinking “ that can't be right” well the reason i think it's like that is because you don't have like a week or two every year for vacation you can ask and the be denied and still go for a day or two but when you come back chances are you just got laid off which again isn't always a bad thing, but there are a ton of them, there are some cases where you can stay with a company your whole working career it doesn't mean you're better than everyone it just means you didn't get laid off. another con is that it is a dangerous job, and every three years you have to renew you pipefitter license by taking a total of 24 of classes before you can renew