26th August 2012, 04:33 PM
Just spent the weekend partying with a guy from a construction firm, and we reached a consensus that across both trades job security = having a driving licence. Getting to the site is common to both. An unskilled building labourer who can go off in the truck to buy a length of pipe or fetch another pallet of bricks from the yard is often far more useful than someone who's been laying bricks for 30 years, and on our end of things there are guys who've been digging forever who work for us but half the time are no use whatsoever, e.g. doing 1-man watching briefs in the middle of nowhere....