Sprinkler Fitters Local 483 Training Center

Organized Labor

Anthony Porciuncula, Apprentice
I was looking for a career and my fiancé's father said it was a good career to get into. I was working for NUMMI as a temp. I took some tests at Laney College and ended up getting in. The hardest part is getting up and going to class after you've worked a long, hard day. You get up at four in the morning, start work at six, work for eight hours, and then have to sit through class for six hours. But this is where we learn, aside from being in the field. I do all the grunt work as an apprentice, laying everything out for all the journeyman. The best part is when I get to put the pipe up in the air and install it. I'm trying to learn as much as I can. The company I work for has a lot of really smart fitters and I want to be like them.