Episode 1759
Weekday Update: The Trades are hiring! Is this job for you?
The trades are hiring? We talk about the shortage of people working in the Construction Trades and what you can expect when you are starting out with little or no experiance. This might be a job for you? We also talk about some major recalls of products that might be in your home and where to find out more information.
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Transcript
[00:00:41] Eric Goranson: And of course this weekend show happy Juneteenth out there today. I wanted to talk a little bit about the trades and the opportunities that I'm seeing out there for people that are really trying to maybe make a career change. We see a lot of these gen Z ers now that are starting to work with their hands and [00:01:00] are going, I'm not paying a hundred thousand dollars.
[:[00:01:20] Eric Goranson: Because even though we have these amazingly high labor costs right now, which is good for the people in the trades, it does affect affordable housing because we're having to pay people. Almost twice as much as they were a handful of years ago, because they're just hard to find good trades people. And I wanted to highlight today.
[:[00:02:01] Eric Goranson: So people could have an honest look at what actual people are doing out there. And so right now, R E F construction, as an example, is hiring a remodel contractor apprentice helper. So they're looking for somebody. Who is looking to get into this field or has one to three years of experience to come join their team, which is cool.
[:[00:02:40] Eric Goranson: I think one of the biggest things that I see with people hiring new team members is one, making sure someone shows up on time. And the second one, having a driver's license for the ability to get to a job site or having a clean driver's record. A lot of these companies will provide you with a work van and tools and all that stuff [00:03:00] in there.
[:[00:03:16] Eric Goranson: You got to have a driver's license. And. Here's the thing with these guys for instance must have cordless drills and basic hand tools All the large tools are provided by the company. So have your favorite tools your tool belt that kind of stuff Must be able to lift 75 pounds They've got competitive wages and 401k with 3 percent company match after 90 days paid holidays and vacation time after 90 days So that's just for a general apprentice labor or somebody wanting to get out there So if you're working On a restaurant, or you're working fast food, or you're somebody out there going, I don't know what I want to do, that might be a great job to go track down.
[:[00:04:07] Eric Goranson: Making French fries all day. So take a look at that. That could be something that's a great one. And of course, once you're established in your journeyman out there, you're really have your carpentry skills down. Then you're getting into much higher pay. And this is where it really works. They're even hiring contractor journeyman out there, which is cool.
[:[00:04:41] Eric Goranson: You're going to make sure the, the subs are working and then you're going to be building and doing your own stuff as well. So you got to be independently minded on that to be able to go out And manage a job site, which really, you know, in your work at budgets, you're doing all that stuff to make sure you're in the middle of that.
[:[00:05:17] Eric Goranson: And here's the 1 thing I like about remodeling as well as it's fairly recession proof in that new house construction. When you're out there being a new house builder, we have our booms and our busts. So you're working 60 hours a week cranking away on this new housing development. And then all of a sudden the interest rates go up higher and trouble that new housing really slows down or like it did 15 years ago, it stops.
[:[00:05:56] Eric Goranson: So take a look at getting into [00:06:00] construction. And if it's something that you go, Hey, this could be a good career for me. I want to do something different. I'm tired of what I doing. You know, it's funny when I sit there and talk to musicians out there and I'm talking, you know, touring musicians that have had videos on MTV.
[:[00:06:34] Eric Goranson: If you want to go down to Florida and work, if you want to go to New York and, or Southern California, you can work just about anywhere you want to work with those skills. So take a look at. Getting a job in the trades out there. Cause I think there's a great opportunity for many people, men and women, and especially the ladies out there.
[:[00:07:11] Eric Goranson: So it's one of those things that You know, ladies and men out there, take a look at the trades. I think it's something very worthwhile. And if you want to find out more about these guys, these jobs, if you're like, Hey, I live in your area, Eric, I don't want to take a look at this, or I want to move out to Portland and get ahold of RF construction at refconstruction.
[:[00:07:50] Eric Goranson: So that's, uh, Bamboo Lab. Aven, or Adven Group, recalls Nap Queen Sleeper Victoria Hybrid mattresses due to fire hazard and violation of federal [00:08:00] mattress flammability standards. Magnetic chess games recalled due to ingestion hazard for little kids. Let's see, most everything else here, there's, uh, some bikes.
[:[00:08:48] Eric Goranson: There's about twelve thousand one hundred of those I bet that those guys are going back and checking From their records because almost all those they have the registered because they're an installed product But if, when in doubt, if you've got [00:09:00] one of those, take a look over at the, uh, cpsc.gov/recalls and you can find out more information there.
[:[00:09:21] Eric Goranson: We'll have two hours of around the house show ready for you on Saturday, whether you're listening on the radio or the podcast or on the. Alright everybody, I'm Eric G and you've been listening to Around the House. We'll see you Saturday. Thanks for tuning in.
