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[Anonymous No.15415389]

never become a bricklayer.


it's miserable.

laying bricks all day in blazing sun or wintery cold with the radio playing mainstream music in the background along with the constant ads trying to get you (a working man) to buy into their garbage like car insurance and other shit i don't fucking care about

[Anonymous No.15415405]

Why the fuck would a person even consider this job? We’re you just that desperate?

[Anonymous No.15415407]

>>15415389
>never become a bricklayer

phew just as well you told me this

guess I'll withdraw all of my many applications to bricklaying companies, detailing all of my esteemed accomplishments in life, and forward them on to Harvard business and law schools instead

truly, thank you anon

[Anonymous No.15415422]

>>15415389
you must suck op or must be your first time. most proficient bricklayers make atleast 20/hour. cope with your minimum wage job you weak faggot.

[Anonymous No.15415424]

>>15415405
i wanted to become an electrician but they wanted me to do a year more of math at a higher level so i just chose this

[Anonymous No.15415427]

>>15415389
> the radio playing mainstream music in the background
maybe buy an mp3 player you dumbfuck

[Anonymous No.15415437]

>>15415389
worst part of working in construction is the average worker sub 90 IQ

[Anonymous No.15415444]

what OP forgot to mention

>he clearly is in the UK
>unlike the rest of the world brick layers are paid as much as surgeons
>a family member was charged almost 10,000 bongs for a 20 metre garden wall

[Anonymous No.15415459]

>>15415389
hang in there bro it gets better if you stick it out and get respect

dont forget that bricklayers are literally a racket, you know how people say bricklaying "gangs", well it is litererally a gang. you set the prices and you make the demands, if you are self employed and head a bricklaying gang. the only thing which moderates the price is competition, but if there is no competition because people kept having unfortunate accidents with their gear or other unfortunate mishaps, then you dictate the terms of the employment and charge what you can, and you can also take good advantage of the fact that many of your employees have backgrounds in or ties to other actual gangs who can get things done, and if you treat them right and take care of their families they will help you in kind

if you quit now, that's fine, it's understandable. but if you stick with it and break though... you have no fucking idea how wealthy and powerful you can be even if you started from the bottom.

[Anonymous No.15415467]

>>15415427
it's really loud music not to mention it would be annoying always having earbuds in ur ear

[Anonymous No.15415468]

>>15415459
oh this is less true if you're living in the middle of the uk, but I live in new zealand, so... my family does whatever it likes as long as we dont piss off the mob

[Anonymous No.15415472]

>>15415444
close, Denmark.

[Israel !DnMCpWAKjo No.15415480]

>>15415472
i knew that. no educated fucker from 4chan would do brick laying in my country. you'd get paid 4 euros an hour and half the time contractors dont even pay

[Anonymous No.15415483]

>>15415444
also from what i can tell the average bricklayers wage in the UK is 36.600 GBP

which is garbage

[Anonymous No.15415488]

>>15415480
Where are you from?

[Anonymous No.15415496]

>>15415483
he's talking about a self employed or biz owner, not a wagies pay.

[Israel !DnMCpWAKjo No.15415501]

>>15415488
south EU

[Anonymous No.15415505]

>>15415483
The average aren’t very fast I earnt that in 6 months this year double that figure if your not a limp wristed faggot

[Anonymous No.15415521]

>>15415472
the hilarious thing is that you could be doing the same thing in the united states and be middle class. never change europoors

[Anonymous No.15415526]

>tfw you finally realise that the people who you should lie to get a good job are 100% right

[Anonymous No.15415533]

>>15415521
ill earn 4000$ a month and get my income taxed 44%

[Anonymous No.15415545]

>>15415533
>get my income taxed 44%
>44% tax
OH NO NO NO.

[Anonymous No.15415552]

OP I will give you some advice to make it more profitable and tolerable. Don’t go home when it rains load out for the next day and get wet. Work Saturdays and stop crying to your mummy that you have to work 6 days a week and finally just remember that people are giving you aload of money for sticking rocks together

[Anonymous No.15415720]

>>15415533
>implying you wouldn't be making cash
uk is so cucked it's unreal

[Anonymous No.15415750]

haha you didn't even mention the inevitable back problems later in life, have fun OP!

[Anonymous No.15415756]

>>15415389
I am a stone mason anon and it's much comfier, work for myself too

[Anonymous No.15415766]

>>15415389
>laying bricks all day in blazing sun or wintery cold with the radio playing mainstream music in the background along
Sounds comfy desu. Better than slouching behind the monitor all day.

[Anonymous No.15415789]

>>15415483
Considering I had to do 2 years of A levels, 4 years of uni getting £60k "debt" and spend £5k a year on trains alone to earn almost that salary I think you're a bit out of touch mate. The only way that it's a bad wage is that you can't put a price on your health.

[Anonymous No.15415846]

>>15415389
Half of that was complaining about the radio.
Couldn't you ask the foreman if you can bring along some CDs?
And when that inevitably fails (as usually happens in these sorts of threads), buy yourself the modern-day equivalent of a walkman. Nerd.

[Anonymous No.15415854]

>>15415467
>it's really loud music
Oh, how targic

[Anonymous No.15415862]

I've worked hard labor before. it's honestly not so bad. you're almost getting paid to work out. but yeah knowing you'd have to do it day in day out for the rest of your life would kind of suck.

but even still. hard labor isn't so bad. you can kind of just autopilot it

[Anonymous No.15415864]

>>15415444
Shit I'd lay bricks in 115 degree weather for $100,000 a year.

[Anonymous No.15415908]

>>15415389
>wintery cold
I miss the cold
I wish winter would come soon

[Anonymous No.15415948]

>>15415552
i prefer working in the rain though
it's the intense sun I'm more worried about

[Anonymous No.15415999]

>>15415948
Well yeah I have the same problem we’ve had some crazy heat waves lately don’t overwork yourself in the sun drink plenty of water and make up for the loss in autumn it will be cold and wet before you know it

[Anonymous No.15416017]

>>15415999
what about shade though?


i don't wanna get sunburned

[Anonymous No.15416027]

>>15415422
They earn the equivalent of 35$/hr where im from. Thats 84k a year in 10hr shifts if you dont have any holiday, take time off. Add weekend work to that. You just need to work for a decent company

[Anonymous No.15416038]

Be a bricklayer on the railway.

amazing pay

[Anonymous No.15416069]

>>15416017
Wear a hat, how do you think the cowboys coped

[Anonymous No.15416088]

>>15416069
UV rays goes through fabric

my skin is delicate

[Anonymous No.15416120]

>>15416088
Your young it will suck for a while but honestly once you get some hair on your balls and you’ve been doing this a while you’ll never look back

[Anonymous No.15416137]

>>15415424

>electrician
>need high math

What the fuck. Sparkies need to be clever true but the calculations are fucking easy when you calculate power and voltages etc. Usually the engineers do that shit for you so you're just a cable puller or wiring some breakers etc. Go back to school and start earning my nigger

t. sparky

[Anonymous No.15416146]

I've been joking to the voices that I'm going to become a bricklayer, not return to university and finish my physics/genetics degree because my schizophrenia hasn't cleared up. When I'm trying to work (learn to program, study chemistry, make a CNC machine or more recently learn to trade cryptos) and they just freak out on me and keep me pinned down for days I threaten them "DO YOU WANT TO DO THIS WHILE LAYING BRICKS, SHITZOPHRENIA, COS THAT'S WHAT WE'LL BE DOING IF YOU DON'T BUCK UP". Thanks for this thread, gave me a laugh.

[Anonymous No.15416210]

>>15416137
This.

Work ~630 - 2 and mostly run cable / hook up boxes
>$39 an hour
>dropped math after grade 10
Pretty comfy desu

[Anonymous No.15416239]

>>15416146
The schizo makes a good point, one of the biggest benefits to working outside is a much higher chance of seeing a UFO

[Anonymous No.15416264]

>>15415389
Here I live its much more common to be a carpenter. Do you think that's better?

[Anonymous No.15416295]

>>15416210
>being proud of the fact that in some area you know less than the average high schooler

Yup definitely sounds blue collar to me

[Anonymous No.15416326]

>>15415468
>>15415459
Die, right now possibly

[Anonymous No.15416348]

>>15416295
>thinking schooling = knowledge

Cope

[Anonymous No.15416404]

>>15416264
where

[Anonymous No.15416468]

>>15416348
Now THAT is cope. Ya I'm sure any high IQ academic you speak to and use that Mark Twain quote to justify how you don't even know high school math will be impressed with you as a person overall lmfao

[Anonymous No.15416546]

>>15416404
Norway

[Anonymous No.15416606]

>>15415389
Sounds like fun. I'd rather do literal slave work, manual labor outside tier work where nobody talks and I don't need to pretend to like other people. Of course it sucks if you're an out of shape DYEL.

[Anonymous No.15416639]

That music is their coping mechanism.

Put in ear plugs; not ear buds. Because you need to hear the commands to you.

If you got too much of the stupid to maths I think you should stick to where you are at.

Sometimes the music is preferable to hearing the drama they have in their lives. The drama that always happens in their diesel truck degenerate lives.

Over here at St Louis, MO (FEMA Region 7) region they listen to KSHE 95 which is 60% commercials 40% music. Those fags eat that shit up.

[Anonymous No.15416670]

>>15415389
>blazing sun or wintery cold
>posts near the beginning of autumn