Tch! Typical!!
I missed the opportunity to be the retired owner of an extraordinarily successful bricklaying empire, when one fateful day near the end of term I was asked by the school career advisor what I was going to do when I leave school.

“I’m going to be a bricklayer” I said. “Oh no you’re not, not with six ‘o’ levels” she said. Within half an hour I was enrolled on a local tech course feeding into the Quantity Surveying racket.

So here we are n years later, I’m a very averagely paid and overworked wage slave whilst all the bricklayers who had even the slightest bit of financial nous about them (admittedly there weren’t that many) formed a company, cleaned up in the housing booms of the 80’s and had retired to the South of France before the 90’s were done.

Meanwhile, I still have to argue over how to calculate the area of a fucking triangle to subcontractors who rock up to the office in Humvees or Bentleys and park next to my Focus.
(J H Christ began in Afrika ka ka ka ka, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 3:18, 5 replies)

Oh, I know a few quantity surveyors who made fortunes winning the jobs for builders and then
subbing the bricklayers and especially dry liners and taking a big fat cut of the subs wages.
( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 7:41, closed)

cu +n t

( d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 7:41, closed)

lol povvo

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 8:23, closed)

Average wage is below the poverty line in UK?

Crikey, its even shittier than I remember.
(J H Christ began in Afrika ka ka ka ka, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 23:33, closed)

Half base times height.
Not that I've ever built one from bricks.
( edjogs Collared doves are shit., Fri 4 Apr 2014, 10:31, closed)