Construction Trades

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hi my name is rich waskowitz i'm the

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carpentry teacher here at the united

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herkemer madison boces

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my job is to basically take and teach

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juniors and seniors how to build a house

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from the ground up

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now when you come in as a junior in my

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class

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we're gonna start with safety and work

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our way from the

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basement of a house all the way up to

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the roof

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now if you take a look over here these

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are houses that juniors have built

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they do the block work floor frames

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wall frames rafters stairs

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we will run wire in those and learn

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about basic electricity

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we will sheet rock the houses and learn

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about taping and finishing

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we will hang a door and a window all in

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the junior year

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when you become a senior you're going to

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get a chance to come into this

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part of the lab and you're going to be

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trained on all

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of these power tools and after you

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have learned how to use them safely

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we'll proceed to make projects for our

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community for our school

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we even do some in-house projects for

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ourselves like we made a showcase

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for all of our trophies that we won from

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skillsusa

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we've made a podium for the front of the

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classroom up by the smart board

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and some other little trinket boxes and

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stuff like that we have a work

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trailer and we utilize the home school

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buses

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to take us to job sites in most of the

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home school areas and districts

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so we have built dugouts we've built

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pavilions

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and we hop on the bus we go to the job

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site

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we spend our day there for two hours we

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come back

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and we're actually doing real live

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projects that are going to stand the

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test of time

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and you could drive by with your family

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and show them hey i built that

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and there's a lot of pride when it comes

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to you being able to do that

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there's also of great demand for

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carpenters and masons

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and plumbers and electricians trades

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people most of the baby boomers are all

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retiring now

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and we don't have enough people getting

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into the craft

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to be able to take those jobs on so we

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need

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our youth to get involved in the

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construction trades

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right now the the trade union is calling

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for a hundred

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carpenters to do the next three years

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worth of work

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in central new york alone you will you

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will

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have a great chance of getting a job

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when you get out of boces

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if you choose to go on to college we

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have articulation agreements with

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several colleges

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throughout new york state that you can

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go ahead and actually have

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credits earned from boces taking my

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course

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and you can use them towards your degree

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at those

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other colleges that we have those

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agreements with you can also

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leave high school and go right into the

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trade union they have an apprenticeship

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four or five years apprenticeship by the

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end of that you'd be a journeyman

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and you would be making well let's say

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by the time you guys graduate

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30 an hour 28 to 30 an hour

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in four years if you decide to go into

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the military

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a lot of your talent that you have

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learned here

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your skills and knowledge well you can

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use in the military you could become a

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cb

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and be a builder for for the united

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states military

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the options are endless of what you

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could do with this even if you're a

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homeowner

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the most expensive investment of your

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life is going to be a house

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now why hire people to fix it if you

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have the knowledge to fix it

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you can save so much money doing that

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i'll tell you this trade has

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has been beneficial to me my whole life

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i started when i was 14 years old in the

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cabinet shop

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i started working with a contractor

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just out of high school i've done

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commercial work i've done residential

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work

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18 years experience as a tradesman and

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then i decided i was going to teach it

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and i've been teaching it for 21 years

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so by the time you guys come to me

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i might be a little bit more gray up

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here and i might have a few more

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wrinkles

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but i got that knowledge and i'm going

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to put it into your hands

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i hope to see you here at construction

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trades class