Ep. 3176 - TBT: Helping High School Dropouts Start Plumbing Careers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project
4.8 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
In this week’s Throwback Thursday segment, learn how one side hustler partnered with trade schools to help high school dropouts gain life skills and secure paid apprenticeships in the plumbing trade.
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| 0:51.1 | A lot of sightest will start by solving a problem. |
| 0:58.4 | Some just happen to solve two problems and make money doing it. |
| 1:02.8 | That's what we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:04.1 | And welcome to side-ussel school. |
| 1:06.3 | My name's Chris Gillibow, your host for more than 3,100 episodes and counting. |
| 1:10.5 | This story today comes from |
| 1:11.5 | someone who spots a growing skills gap in trades, especially plumbing. These days, trade work is really |
| 1:18.5 | big. People are making great incomes, great livings from trade work, because guess what, |
| 1:23.2 | it's not getting replaced by AI. You still need a plumber, right? Unfortunately, Chad GPT cannot do your plumbing for you. |
| 1:30.0 | It might be able to diagnose problems and such, but, you know, you still need somebody to come out and do the job. |
| 1:35.2 | So trades are doing great. |
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