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Originally Posted by 8 Ball
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.
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So wrong. Year 2 of Carpentry school is all concrete forming.
Take a lap, beater.
http://www.itabc.ca/program/carpenter