Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d...
by sokoloff on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @07:19AM
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I’ve never met a plumber who couldn’t fix a toilet in the quoted time and budget.
Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d...
by beardedetim on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:08AM
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Where do you find these plumbers? When we owned our house, we never were able to find any contractor that was reliable, upfront about costs, etc. Hell, getting them on the phone and to show up was hard enough.
Re:Was there a tech-hiring bubble? Indeed.com job postings d...
by sokoloff on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:55AM
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Word of mouth from neighbors and colleagues, mostly. I mostly DIY small things around the house, but when I have a plumbing task I can't or don't have time to do, I've had good luck in calling those plumbers, getting an upfront quote (often, "here's our trip charge and hourly rate, and a toilet repair is going to be less than the one-hour minimum and around $75 in parts")
The reason I do it myself is that $75 in parts is actually $20-30 in parts and I can order parts and then do 45 minutes of plumbing work faster than I could figure out what plumber to call, arrange a time, and then stay home to let them in.
Maybe in the US, but in the UK a highly paid software developer can barely buy a 2 bedroom flat in a suburb where 30 years ago the salary of a junior factory worker was enough to buy a house.
> If you had any professional doing the same
Other professionals are less productive by orders of magnitude, just check what’s going on in the accountancy department of a random company. You can double their productivity introducing Excel’s pivot tables a V-lookup. Or try to get a plumber to fix your toilet within time and budget.