Hard skilled work, tearing your muscles apart. Other trades turning up in their family car getting a handsome day work rate while muggings here having to work my butt off on price work only just to get a day work wage. Take out of that the cost of my van I had to have to supply all my equipment needed (bath, shovel, rake, board, stand, buckets, ponch, trestle, battens, step ladders) and I was on less than the going day rate. Plus back then Plasterers back stabbed Plasterers, builders and other trades looked down on us like we was thick (partly true).
No thanks, it wasn't for me. Got ripped off once more in 89 and walked out. Never looked back.
See, I told you If I post it would be a moan. Life is too short for talking crap.