Sprinkler Fitters Local 483 Training Center
Organized Labor
Haila Gebrezgi, Apprentice
I was working warehouse and not a lot was going on, so I needed to get my career going, and a good friend of mine told me about sprinkler fitting. So I looked it up online, signed up, and took the test. I was number 36 and they only took 35. But Linda Loeffler, the woman in the front office, told me that if I was really interested to call back. So I kept on calling and calling her, and then one day she said, "I can get you in."
I was lucky, and I just love it. I like doing hands-on work, getting dirty, and knowing that the systems we are putting in save people's lives. The hardest part is going to class after working a double shift. But it's worth it, because you're learning a good thing.