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Originally Posted by blender
You did when you said that concrete forming and framing aren't trades. You are 100% wrong about that and in saying it you are disrespecting the people that do the work. Every building you've ever been in has a foundation and structure that were assembled by a tradesperson. Some buildings are more difficult to build than others and some tradespeople are more skilled than others. Some tradespeople are ticketed, some aren't. Some of the better tradespeople I've worked with aren't.
Your arbitrary and incorrect assertion about what is and isn't a trade is exactly the kind of commentary that is at issue. Your lack of knowledge and your expression of it is contributing to the problem of trades being undervalued in society.
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Concrete forming and framing aren't trades. If a carpenter is framing a house, they are not a framer, they are a carpenter that is framing. If they are doing form work they are carpenters who are doing form work. There is no trade that I know of in Alberta called "framer" or "form worker". In fact the vast majority of residential form workers are called cribbers, and that is not a trade either. If your not an indentured apprentice or a certified journeyperson in a government recognized trade, you are not a tradesperson. It's as simple as that. This is not being disrespectful of the jobs they are doing at all. What is disrespectful however is calling a person with no formal technical training at an approved technical training institute a tradesperson. It's disrespectful to those people who payed the tuition, went to school and passed the exams to earn a diploma. A diploma that may leave them liable to legal implications if something goes wrong.
The reason trades are undervalued is because ignorant people think anyone who swings a hammer or twists a wrench must be a tradesperson. A retired police officer can go to court for you and fight a traffic ticket, it doesn't make them a lawyer.