WEBVTT 00:00:01.120 --> 00:00:04.370 >> I'm John O'Neil, and I'm a plumber. 00:00:04.370 --> 00:00:08.180 Okay, we do what everybody else does not want to do with their house. 00:00:08.180 --> 00:00:09.480 We work on water pipes. 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:10.560 Sewer pipes. 00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:12.090 Gas lines. 00:00:12.090 --> 00:00:15.170 Vents. We'll come in and break up your slab. 00:00:15.170 --> 00:00:17.660 Dig down. Dig a trench in your basement. 00:00:17.660 --> 00:00:18.530 Fix up your plumbing. 00:00:18.530 --> 00:00:20.990 Get it where you want it in your house. 00:00:20.990 --> 00:00:23.130 What you want to do as a professional when you show 00:00:23.130 --> 00:00:26.710 up at someone's house, let them show you the problem. 00:00:26.710 --> 00:00:27.890 And then stop right there. 00:00:27.890 --> 00:00:31.570 There's certain things that you want to know from them before you get started. 00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:35.700 Number one, if you're working on water, where's your main water shut off in your house? 00:00:35.700 --> 00:00:39.060 Okay. You don't know what they have going on in their basement. 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:42.150 It could be anything from a leaking humidifier line. 00:00:42.150 --> 00:00:44.700 Which is just a 1/4-inch water line off the main. 00:00:44.700 --> 00:00:46.490 So you just go, and you patch that up. 00:00:46.490 --> 00:00:52.770 Or roots stop up their main sewer line, and all the basement toilets are overflowing. 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:55.640 So you might get a call, and you walk into that. 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:57.980 That's worst-case scenario as a technician. 00:00:57.980 --> 00:01:02.460 Because you need to clean up the area before you can even safely get in there 00:01:02.460 --> 00:01:05.380 and use electric equipment to snake the drain. 00:01:05.380 --> 00:01:09.390 It could also be a water heater that's not firing properly. 00:01:09.390 --> 00:01:12.840 In which case you may have to tell a customer, okay, 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.270 I'm not going to be able to fix this today. 00:01:14.270 --> 00:01:15.660 They're going to be very disappointed. 00:01:15.660 --> 00:01:21.170 But you may need to explain, I need to order this part to get you up and running today. 00:01:21.170 --> 00:01:24.610 Also, you could be coming in behind somebody who's done something wrong. 00:01:24.610 --> 00:01:27.460 Which makes it more difficult to diagnosis a problem. 00:01:27.460 --> 00:01:31.890 So there's a lot of, you know, thinking on your feet at the leadership level. 00:01:31.890 --> 00:01:36.870 And then, as you go down the totem pole, it becomes more just putting pipes together. 00:01:36.870 --> 00:01:39.980 Which, hey, those guys, if you just want to do that. 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:42.160 You're going to get off at the same time every day. 00:01:42.160 --> 00:01:43.780 Show up to work at the same time every day. 00:01:43.780 --> 00:01:45.700 Plenty of free time, whatever. 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:48.830 That's the beauty of working in construction it's 6:00 to 2:00. 00:01:48.830 --> 00:01:50.250 So 6:00 to 2:00. 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:51.390 Two o'clock you're off. 00:01:51.390 --> 00:01:53.140 You're not, you're boss can call you. 00:01:53.140 --> 00:01:54.800 You don't have to answer. 00:01:54.800 --> 00:01:56.920 Even after ten years in, your neck's going to hurt. 00:01:56.920 --> 00:01:58.170 Your back's going to hurt. 00:01:58.170 --> 00:01:59.490 Your knees are going to hurt. 00:01:59.490 --> 00:02:02.940 It's not something where, oh, I'm going to be doing this into my 70s, you know. 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:04.360 Nobody says that. 00:02:04.360 --> 00:02:05.570 You can become an inspector. 00:02:05.570 --> 00:02:08.970 Now you're shuffling papers instead of installing pipes. 00:02:08.970 --> 00:02:10.580 You're not crawling around through the mud anymore. 00:02:10.580 --> 00:02:11.340 You're just walking. 00:02:11.340 --> 00:02:12.090 You got a flashlight. 00:02:12.090 --> 00:02:12.950 You have a code book. 00:02:12.950 --> 00:02:13.930 And that's what you do.