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[firecat]

So who knows a good school for general carpentry, electrical, plumbing and building skills?

Because I'm convinced that going to school and learning all these things would take less time and aggravation than waiting for effing service firms that lie about when they are going to show up for appointments, assuming that I can get appointments in the first place.

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[kightp.livejournal.com]

While I recognize the voice of frustration when I hear it, if you really want to learn those things you might check around and see if Habitat for Humanity is doing any building in your vicinity. I have a friend who spent a summer volunteering for them and then went on to build an addition to her own house, pretty much single-handedly, with the skills she'd learned building a house for somebody else.

In the meantime, empathy. Even in a town small enough where everyone knows all the tradesmen, some of them can't be bothered to keep appointments and still manage to stay in business somehow.

[firecat]

That's a good suggestion. Several of my friends/sweeties have talked about volunteering for them.