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A plumber installs and maintains pipes that carry water, drainage, sewage, and other liquids in homes and businesses. The job involves both hands-on work installing and repairing pipes as well as drafting blueprints. It is a varied career with opportunities in design, maintenance, and specialties. Many plumbers stay in the profession for their entire career due to job satisfaction and opportunities to train apprentices. The article promotes an upcoming online training program to help readers learn plumbing skills.

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In This Article:: What Is A Plumber?

A plumber installs and maintains pipes that carry water, drainage, sewage, and other liquids in homes and businesses. The job involves both hands-on work installing and repairing pipes as well as drafting blueprints. It is a varied career with opportunities in design, maintenance, and specialties. Many plumbers stay in the profession for their entire career due to job satisfaction and opportunities to train apprentices. The article promotes an upcoming online training program to help readers learn plumbing skills.

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What is a Plumber?

A plumber is someone who installs and maintains pipes in our homes and businesses. These pipes

need to be installed and maintained for potable water, drainage, irrigation and sewage, as well as

other uses. Plumbers can be involved in hands-on work or may work in a design capacity, drafting

blueprints and helping make the installation process more efficient. This is a profession with an

extensive number of possible career paths. Some of the best paying jobs are in the more unusual

specialities, since there is less competition.

This can be a very rewarding career, as evidenced by survey data that indicates that licensed

professionals in the field tend to remain in the profession for their entire career. Many even

continue part-time, well past the usual retirement age, helping the next generation by providing

apprenticeships and learning opportunities.

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In this article:

1. What is a Plumber?
Someone interested in becoming a plumber would be interested to know that the stereotypical job

as a residential plumber is only a small portion of the available career opportunities for an

experienced professional.

An expert in plumbing is aware of building regulations and safety standards and works to make

sure these standards are upheld. Legal expertise can also be an aspect of plumbing, since the laws

regulating this trade vary depending on where you live, and can be difficult for a layperson to

understand. Testing pipes for leakage using air pressure and other gauges, and also the ability to

construct new pipe systems by cutting, fitting, measuring and threading pipes are some of the other

more involved aspects of plumbing.

Plumbers often work right alongside architects, as they can contribute valuable knowledge about

the best positions for wall passage and fixture locations, saving the architect valuable time and

avoiding expensive mistakes.

Are you suited to be a plumber?


Plumbers have distinct personalities. They tend to be realistic individuals, which means they’re

independent, stable, persistent, genuine, practical, and thrifty. They like tasks that are tactile,

physical, athletic, or mechanical. Some of them are also investigative, meaning they’re intellectual,

introspective, and inquisitive.

Does this sound like you? Take our free career test to find out if plumber is one of your top career

matches.

What is the workplace of a Plumber like?

Job security tends to be good in this field, because people will always need plumbing. A day in the

life of a plumber might include fielding midnight phone calls from a frantic customer with a

broken pipe, or it might involve working for an architectural firm or on a construction site.

Many plumbers are self-employed or work for a small business employing less than ten people,

though some might find working for larger entities or the government is more desirable. Many

large buildings employ their own staff, including school districts, college campuses, airports, and

municipal buildings. The military is another large employer of plumbing professionals, though past

experience as a member of the armed forces may be a prerequisite.

Simply put, anywhere that has or needs to have running water is an opportunity for potential

customers. Even motor vehicles such as buses, recreational vehicles, large airplanes, yachts, and

cruise ships all need the installation of plumbing and will need repair work from time to time.

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