I don't know about that, but there is a nationwide shortage of...

I don't know about that, but there is a nationwide shortage of skilled tradesmen and maybe they are starting to take what they can get. It's been five years since I was in the industry so maybe it's gotten even worse.
"My son told me he wanted to be a stockbroker, I told him to get a trade earn some good money than f#ck around later on".
There isn't too many tradesmen earning less than $100000p.a these days AND they have enough money to invest heavily in the market.
Just wondering how many posters here are or were tradesmen