[ottbmare]

Part of the prejudice here is that many on this thread cannot separate a workman from a successful business owner that may have started as a blue collar worker.

What prejudice? I don't see any sign of an anti-plumber prejudice on this thread. How would it even be possible to be prejudiced against plumbers?

[ansel12]

I have read post after post about how a plumber can make good money, especially after he has 6 or 8 other plumbers working for him etc. that isn’t a plumber any longer.

Post after post on this thread talks about the plumber making $80.00 an hour etc., the company charges that price, not the workman at your house.

To me this is like confusing the Restaurant owner and the cook, they are two different things, even as is common, when the Restaurant owner started as a cook.

One is a business owner, and entrepreneur, etc. the other is a plumber (or a cook etc).

I am simply surprised that when a businessman builds a successful plumbing business that he is still confused with the help, and oddly, vice versa.