@bigballer4651

1 year ago

I'm a brickie,39 years old and I've been doing this since I left school. I run two 2 & 1 gangs and this kid is correct, when you're running lightweight blocks in you can earn decent money.
But if you average it out over the whole house/every lift and take into account all the days you aren't on Rockstar wages,I.e setting out corners,under DPC, loading out (yes some brickies still pitch in and help out the labourer from time to time),fitting window jambs and heads,gable cut ups etc etc. When you average that for every house over the course of a year and factor in bad weather,unpaid holidays you need days like this to make it worth while.
I make a decent living but I've got 15 years left if I'm lucky, the only guys I've ever met who've made millions are brick barons with multiple gangs.
Millionaire brick layers still on the trowel,I've never met one.
These young brickies remind me of myself in 2008, 24 and I thought I had this game figured out, that recession was a humbling experience and the next one is going to be just as bad, let's see how many are posting videos next year boasting about how much money they are earning. I thought the same thing in 2008, they'll never shut the site,too much demand, they moth balled most sites overnight and we struggled for 18 months until things started back up again. Include a couple of recessions and forced early retirement and tell me how much you've actually earnt over your career and I guarantee you've not averaged £ 360 a day.

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