Warren Smathers
New Member
Has there ever been an effort by PWNA or anyone else for a licensing requirement? If you look (perhaps cynically) at other professions, the way they guarantee quality of product and prevent lowballing is by requiring licensure. This reduces the pool of people "authorized" to perform any given profession. This applies to plumbers, electricians, truck drivers, registered dieticians, etc. etc. In my opinion, this industry is today where plumbing and electrical were at the turn of the century. Anyone who wants to get in can get in, and many folks are learning by trial and error. While this is good in the sense of open access, it leads to damage to customer property, degradation of the industry image, and as mentioned before, lowballing by folks who do not carry requisite insurance, etc. No, this is NOT a call for a union!! I am simply opening up the topic for discussion of a route to a true profession.