How do I get into the trades in Toronto? I want to do plumbing
>t. 22 year old black guy
How do I get into the trades in Toronto? I want to do plumbing. >t. 22 year old black guy
How do I get into the trades in Toronto? I want to do plumbing
>t. 22 year old black guy
This is the third or fourth time you’ve created this thread. Did you take any of the advice and many suggestions and posts on the topic?
People just said go to technical schools without offering much advice past that. I highly doubt paying 10k+ for a private course is going to get me anything. Heard they were scams. Yet public pre-apprenticeship colleges like George Brown are scams for trades
>$10k
>CAD
That's nothing.
That is only enough for 3 loaves of bread and 12 ounces of maple syrup
>without offering much advice past that
I thought you were a black man
One who could make his way once pointed INA direction
Turns out you're just another Black person with his hand out like all the rest
You in Scarborough?
Yup. Born n raised
That doesn't surprise me for some reason, hence my asking - you keep asking this question repeatedly. I used to live Kennedy housing, I tried to aim a bunch of people my age into the trades. Pre apprenticeship courses are genuinely not a scam if you don't know what your doing yet (I guess it's George Brown for plumbing, I went to Centennial Ashtonbee for motorcycle/car/transportation sector training), but there's another element to this; the pre-up course is a recognized "baseline" skill set thst an employer will understand that you have. You can put the "completed certification" on your resume, and not be treated like some co-op kid. Its pay to play in Canada, and 10k isn't much. Your gonna blow that on tools soon enough. Hate to say it, but your already really good at telling this board you are black - front up to the school that you are indeed black and can't afford it, they will throw you a leg in. Generally zero payback loans. My lads who did car shit did it and came back laughing, they just said how much they "suffered under Canada's socioeconomic oppression" and got handed 7.5k out of a 9k course. How do you think the fricking Brampton hordes do it? Use that shit; you clearly already do. It's not a heel if you use it right, and it will help you loads. I couldn't (and ain't that a c**t, being the token whitey on Toronto Housing but thems the breaks) If you wanna work off the books, go at least north enough to find hillbilly operations in the Kwarthas (but don't, because a Scarborough 20-something is anathema to them), or go to Brampton and join the wacky game of no-papers-no-problem. It's all cash work and sketchy legal reprocussions, I did this for a few years myself. I don't recommend it. Do you know plumbing? If you don't, or can't confidently say you understand construction sites or clogged shitters, cough up and pay Georgie for your cert.
I escaped Scarborough, and you can too, but not by asking for handies on this forum, my man. Best of luck.
I’m doing a book report on this post for my senior year final project.
>10k for george brown
Actually it's only about ~5k for a 2 semester program. Not bad. What should I do after I graduate though? I don't think these guys will hook me up with an apprenticeship right away
What are you looking to trade?
Buy some tools from home depot, load them up in a minivan and stain your clothes with some paint and plaster. It's literally how every 'new canadian' does it. Oh and don't forget to look like you're too busy to take on the job and over estimate the job by thousands of dollars.