The Construction Business : How to Become a Construction Worker

To become a construction worker, usually you are a laborer, tradesman, detailed craftsman or someone with a skilled trade that comes into the job site to provide a service. Find out how to become a construction worker with advice from a general contractor in this free video on the construction business.

Expert: Gavin McKenzie
Bio: Gavin McKenzie graduated from the University of Florida in 2003 with a degree in business administration and is the owner of McKenzie Construction L.L.C., in South Florida.
Filmmaker: Paul Muller

[abcd-scko]

This is how I did it. Applied to a bunch of apprenticeships. Got accepted into a non union electrical apprenticeship. They sent me a list of contractors I could work for. I started calling every company until I got a job.

[robertochairez]

Im a 14 year old and this is my dream and imma do it

[SuperGreatSphinx]

History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap.

But in the end the builders have had the better of it.

The miracles they accomplished in stone are still standing and still beautiful, even with the disintegration of so many centuries on them, but the battlefields where great warriors died are so encroached upon by modern villas and so befouled by the rotting remains of motorcars and the staves of oil barrels that they do not always repay a visit.

[madbear]

As a construction worker do you do all the jobs like building houses roads barns or do you spicealty in one area

[austinrodarte]

How can I be a construction worker in new york city? By the way I live in Los Angeles.

[gmadman]

If I go in as a laborer will I need to provide my own tools?

[zxwmabcdef]

I dont understand why construction isn't ISO certified.  They should have to use measuring tools with NIST certificates and current calibration certificates.  Everything they do is way out of tolerance.

[carlosdesantiago]

or can a just get a construction degree

[TOracle]

Working your way up the corporate ladder is a dead concept in many fields. Everything that is not core to the business identity is contracted out to the lowest bidder. Contractors are disposable. Welcome to America circa 2018.

[yongxingan]

i want to work as a laborer in the US, but i am now in china, so i want to go to work there without pay for one year if you can help me sir. please

[YoungosoFly]

I want to be a own my own construction site

[thomsonnosmoht]

i think i will work my way up as a laborer.. i need to earn money.. :(