James Spader

You know, when you choose to make your living as an actor, it's all fine and good to look at it as some kind of artistic endeavor. At its best, it is that. But the fact is, most of the actors out there don't earn $3 million a picture and can't afford to take two years off between films and look for the right thing. Most of us are tradesmen.

American Actor

Shane Filan

Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

Irish Musician

Michael Emerson

This is this thing I harp on: Sometimes acting can be a self-defeating psychological enterprise if we feel like we're desperate, if we feel like we're beggars at the door, praying that someone will take pity on us and give us a job. It would be so much better to feel like we're tradesmen.

Jimmy Bullard

But its jobs, jobs that pubs create and help sustain, thats massive. My pub alone, we get so many different bar staff, especially the young coming in, getting a start in life, learning to talk to people. And thats just inside the trade, theres outside... window cleaners, tradesmen.

Sean Lock

There is the idea that there's a section of society, these working-class tradesmen, are driving around and they all think the same. Everybody who has tools in their vehicle have all the exact same thoughts: it's incredibly patronising isn't it?

English Comedian

Sabine Baring-Gould

My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.

English Clergyman

Grant Bowler

I grew up in Queensland, and my dad was a tradesman and my mum an insurance agent, both self-employed.

Australian Actor

Thomas Steinbeck

My father thought of himself as a tradesman. A craftsman.

American Writer

Used for someone who specializes in a particular profession, often manual labor like plumbing or carpentry.

Trade Specific

Highlights the expertise and training required for the job, not just the fact that someone works in a trade.

Skill Emphasis

The term does not specify gender, suitable for all professionals regardless of being male or female.

Gender Neutral

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 time we became doctors I mean physician only in the 18th 19th century before that we where barbers you know plain old barbers yes in carpenters and other tradesmen who ever had sharp tools given this approach to surgery it's

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 One such unnerving transformation befell the spinner Arachne. Arachne was the daughter of a tradesman who spent his days dying cloth the deepest shades of purple.

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 Schoolchildren play. Tradesmen thrive. Dancers larger than life dance with joy.

Tradesman