dying trades

Please don`t remind me ................... <-------- runs to the loo to hug it

[Wideboy]

so anyone want to take on a joiner?

[yorkie_chris]

Yeah OK I'll take you on at pool.

The slowdown in the housing market is going to effect my job sooner or later I think.

I work in transport planning, in particular for housing developers. Basically, I help the developer get planning permission by carrying out transport assessments / analyses which the councils / highways agency require. (basically need to tell them that the additional houses won't generate so much traffic that the road network will become congested)

About 9 months ago our main clients stopped buying new sites - and they haven't started buying since!

Not looking good for a lot of trades. It's suprising how many trades rely on house building!

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by TazDaz

I work in transport planning, in particular for housing developers. Basically, I help the developer get planning permission by carrying out transport assessments / analyses which the councils / highways agency require. (basically need to tell them that the additional houses won't generate so much traffic that the road network will become congested)

About 9 months ago our main clients stopped buying new sites - and they haven't started buying since!

We do the same thing here but the Transport Planning / Highways Engineering side of the business hasn't slowed down much, Topo Survey work seems to have slowed to not much more than a trickle but then we have twice the survey team we had 12 months ago so even if the workload remained the same we'd only look half as busy

Originally Posted by Wideboy

so anyone want to take on a joiner?

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Yeah OK I'll take you on at pool.

i will take you on at chess

thinking about it i have not had a game of chess for about 5 years

Printing trade is going down the pan too...

Originally Posted by the_lone_wolf

We do the same thing here but the Transport Planning / Highways Engineering side of the business hasn't slowed down much, Topo Survey work seems to have slowed to not much more than a trickle but then we have twice the survey team we had 12 months ago so even if the workload remained the same we'd only look half as busy

We haven't slowed just yet, but I'm predicting a slow down simply because the clients don't appear to have many new projects in the pipeline!

Redrow even closed their office near us!

Originally Posted by ThEGr33k

Go into shop fitting. My bro is a joiner and thats what he does. Pretty good money if you get in with the right firm.

+1

My cousin is a joiner in Newcastle and he's earning £200 per day shop fitting (you need to work through the night though).

[Bibio]

blacksmithing is going down the pan too... bloody chinese rubbish..

just cant compete ... price of steel is threw the roof.. ppl wont pay for quality craftsmenship any more.