Where Has All The Trade Work Gone?! | Off The Job: A Tradesman Podcast Overtime Episode 82

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent quiet periods in trade work and the concerns of tradespeople regarding job security.

Send us Fan Mail This week’s Off The Job Overtime starts with Pete asking the question loads of tradespeople are thinking right now… Has work gone quiet? The lads get into how slow things have felt recently for some engineers, whether the trades industry is changing, and why more people seem worried about where the next job is coming from. The episode also goes completely off the rails as usual 😂 Pete and Keiran get into: Quiet periods in the tradesHeat pumps vs gas boile...

People in this episode

Host: Pete

Topics covered

• trade work
• industry changes
• job security
• engineers
• quiet periods

Keywords

• trade work
• engineers
• job security
• quiet periods
• heat pumps
• gas boilers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Trade Apps Ltd

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