freakparade3 wrote:LockPickerJoe wrote:I'm looking for a locksmith job out here in Connecticut, I am looking for a business that is willing to train me on the job, and I was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction, I read on another thread that I should grab the phone book or roll through a shop but I am on the road with my current job so I barely have time to do anything. Any help on this would be great. Thanks in advance.
-Joe
If you have no experience and are "on the road" so much you don't even have time to call around to locksmith shops you may want to think a little more about it.
The foley Belsaw course is a good place to start, and you work at your own pace. Not many locksmiths will train you on the job if you have no previous knowledge, they simply don't have time. Cold calling locksmiths asking for a job is also a bad idea. You are not looking for a "job" you are looking for an "apprenticeship" and the pay will reflect your level of knowledge.
Excellent advice.
I know of shops in Ct where the owners actually put staff off because the costs associated with employing people there are astronomical and the returns are far better when you only employ yourself.
One guy had 10 staff, a shop and 6 trucks on the road.......now he just does it himself.....and is happy making $350 K a year.
You must understand that I dont think you'll find many locksmiths willing to train someone else to be their competition in their market.
And that happens all too often in this trade......someone applies for a job....you train them up.....they think they can do it better and cheaper and start stealing your customers.
I think there is something in the American Business psyche......."Step on them before they step on you"
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