As 2025 closes out, I find myself looking back on the stories of journeys that bring people into the plumbing trade. Over the past year, while talking to plumbers across North America, one theme keeps coming up in conversations: so many of today’s professionals didn’t start out with a wrench in their hand.
I’ve talked with former accountants, teachers, retail managers, IT specialists — and many other professions — who all discovered plumbing later in life and never looked back.It’s a reminder that a first career doesn’t have to be a final destination. One plumber told me he spent a decade
