A licensed plumber?
No school available near you?
Reject unions?
Take your pride away and start all over again.
1)- First you need 6 month training learning bad words.
2)- Three months getting drunk and learning how to stink like sewer water.
3)- Find a job as apprentice in a business which has a Master plumber.
4)- Work as apprentice for four years (two years in some States) renewing the apprentice license every year
5)- In the forth year Master plumber letter of recommendation for you to have the code test.
6)- Read the plumbing code book and be familiar with it.
7)- Have the code test and pass it. (Trade code tests are usually open books)
When you finish, please pass by and knock my door, I have a stop up toilet.
Damn all that to make a living .. no wonder so many struggling in urban cities
It's a skilled trade. Takes time to learn.
Plumbers are in demand, and in part likely due to some of this, which I am sure discourages some, but at the other end is a very well paying career that can't be outsourced.
A few years investment in yourself is what all that is...