Welt am Sonntag (a good Sunday newspaper in Germany) had an interesting piece today.
There's this odd shortage going on. You come up with a project in the house....say a new wallpaper situation for a room, and you do the interview to find the right guy at the right price. So you finally find this guy, and he gives you the waiting period (roughly ten weeks) before he can start. This is now the national average.
Why so long?
There's a national shortage being noted right now with these handyman crafts. It's just not a field that attracts people as an occupation. Painters, electricians, plumbers, wallpaper folks, carpenters, roofers, etc.
The thing that Welt points out.....these professional German handymen are making as much as most academics.
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