The Locksmith Trade-The Good The Bad And The Ugly

While researching the trade on locksmithing, I found it to be a very respectable paying, high demand, and important job. In all of the sources I have read, they have concurred that you have to love your job in order to be the most successful in the locksmithing trade. As stated by Ralph Goodman, “If you can’t do what you love, love what you do.” Ralph Goodman uses quotes from other locksmiths to express the idea that this field of study is a very good career, because people that are locksmiths usually like what they do, learn an abundance of new things, and also receive a respectable compensation. My main goal in this paper is to inform you why locksmithing is considered to not only be a good, but very important trade. In Michael Meyer’s article, “The Locksmith Trade- The Good the Bad and the Ugly,” he stated this trade as a heroic trade. He spoke about a time when a mother accidently locked her child in her car on a hot summer day. He rushed to the scene quickly and unlocked the car for her at no charge. However, he was still able to make money by “upselling.” Upselling is selling a product in addition to the

The article mostly talks about a locksmith’s salary. Herships states in the article that locksmiths get paid around forty to sixty thousand dollars a year based on their experience and the number of hours they work. For locksmiths that provide emergency services, their pay could be substantially higher. In this article, Sally stated that her salary was one hundred thousand a year. Locksmithing is not just all about the money. Yes, of course there are other trades you can do for a bigger salary, but you might not have as much opportunity to grow. In this article, Sally Herships states although the pay starts off at a lower wage, it can increase as long as you work hard and to the best of your