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For years now i have wanted to be a plumber. I have always wanted to do this, and my ambition is to build my own business and maybe make it a 'females only' plumbing company, where we work for , -Elderly people -single mums -ladies living on there own -housewifes This is because of all the trouble these kind of people get with Cowboys and theifs, you know the people who turn up and say there plumbers where really all there gonna do is mug you!? Ive been told there is a real shortage of female plumbers, and im stuck in such a rut at the moment i really want to give it a shot. Clare is at the moment building a pack of infomation up for me with info on how to get funding to be a plumber, courses, colleges, night school. When i went home last night i told all my friends and you knwo what they did, sat there laughed and all said i wouldnt make it. If thats what my closest friends think do i really have a chance of making it or do you think i should quit while im ahead and just stick with a job that just isnt for me??? xxx

Become a plumber and b******s to what your friends think, they just don't have the scope of imagination and maturity to imagine anything from the norm! Be a plumber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wanted to be an architect but was told girls can't be architects and I have always regretted not following my dream! Julie xxx

Steedie, this is a brilliant idea, as long as you dont mind shifting a backlog of poo and stuff occasionally :-)) I have said this to my neice who is 18, forget college I told her, become a plumber and makes sure you are good, polite, clean and tidy up after yourself and it will be a licence to print money, there is defintately a shortage of good honest clean plumbers of either sex and being a female will make you appeal to the females of this world, good luck and well done on a brill idea, of course you can do it, If a man can then I am sure that a woman can do it equally if not better than a male You go girl!!!!

My husband is a plumber and has his own company.I have seen him come home and strip off in the garden where he has been up to his waist in poo.If you dont mind them sort of jobs then go for it.We can do the same as men.its been proved all the time. Annie

thats why i think they dont believe i will do it cos im just so squemish, but the way i see it is, men are squemish too and somehow they just get over it, theres good and bad points to all jobs. Thanks for your support, i was just so embarresed last night when i told them, i couldve died! xxxx

Steedie, you have absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about!!!! dont let anyone squash your dreams, if that is what you want to do then go for it!!!!! I for one will hire you when you are qualified!!

Steedie, apart from having a stomach for some of the jobs, Are you physically strong enough to do the heavy work? I wish you well, whatever....... ps. plumbing not only clearing drains and changing tap washers..... X X Bob

Give it a go Steedie - if you don't try you'll never know. And to hell with them laughing at you - just think of them on their knees begging when they need a plumber! lol Daisy

Oh my God!!! I've always wanted to be a plumber too - I'm really good at it and pretty much self taught but I can plumb in a bathroom on my own etc I'll be your business partner if you like. Can we have our vans spray painted pink tho?? WIth glittery lettering My other plumbing like busines v enture would be a company actually called Cowboy Traders - also aimed at single women - whereby whatever workman you need comes round to teh house and does your plumbing, electrics, tiling or whatever but they do it dressed as a cowboy - stetson, chaps, checked shirt - only all the young hunky tradesmen I've asked to join me have laughed at it Z xx

You go for it, gal, and the best of luck!! ;< 0 ))

Zoe, why dont you go for it too?? Yes pink vans all the way, i was thinking of calling the business, 'Princess Plumbing', what d'ya think? I dont know if i have the physical strengh, but im no pansy i can lift and haul when needed xxx

Steph - sorry but have to PMSL ................... there you were yesterday complaining that you had got totally drenched on the way to work - and today you tell us you want to be a plumber!!! Sorry but that just tickled me - the thought of you tinkering with exploding taps etc and looking like a drowned rat LMHO PS. When can you come round I have some taps need replacing lolol

LOL Anne yeh i know.. I was on the train home last night with aaron, and was crying (i think its hormones), n he said 'you cant cry like this on a building site' lol! can you imagine!!! xxxx

People will pay practically anything to stop water/sewage running all over their houses. But you will need to get au fait with the latest boilers etc which all look like nuclear reactors to me! nell

Steedie it wont be easy but go for it and good luck and when your friends need work done charge them well xxxxHowiexxx

thank you for all your support, i think i might even print this off and show this to them all tonight!!! They will be sorry when there toilet is blocked and there begging me to stick my hands down there!!!! xxx

Go for it girl! There's loads of demand for plumbers and the money is pretty good. Your own ladies only firm is a brill idea. Good luck. Love Jack x

Steph, you only get one chance at life. You follow your dreams, and if you fail you will have given it your best shot. Do you know a plumber who you could 'shadow' for a day to really get an idea of the work they do? Ann Glos

No, the only Plumber i know is the guy who comes to our flat to fix all the problems, i suppose i could ask in the estate agents, its just difficult as i work full time already! xxx