YouTuber with 180.000 subscribers: ‘Nobody wants to work’

Why she can no longer find anyone to renovate her bathroom

Why is it so hard to find someone to renovate a bathroom? Because the conversation about the labour market has shifted onto uncomfortable ground: the trades that on paper pay well and yet no one fills. The trigger this time is a message from a content creator with 180.000 subscribers who claims that in Spain nobody wants to work. Her biography —a shop assistant until she finished her studies, then a head of news— is part of the argument.

The rest of the story is what circulates online: that she earns around 9.000 euros a month for giving her opinion, that she lives off other people's attention. These are figures repeated with no backing beyond the forum itself, but they work as ammunition. The message that remains is uncomfortable: there is money in the word business and rather less in the trowel trade.

The bathroom job no professional wants to take on

The specific cases come from home renovation, not new build. Someone with a bathroom still to do says they can't find any bricklayer available: everyone, they are told, is up to their eyes in work and can't keep up. The only quote they managed to get was 'astronomical', more aimed at scaring the customer off than closing the deal.

It's not an isolated case. Some claim that the minimum rate for any odd job is already around 20.000 euros, the supposed tax for anyone who can't tell mortar from cement. The figure is thrown out without any data, but it points to something the thread repeats: when the trade is scarce, the price is set by those who work.

And the profile that emerges doesn't help either, according to several messages: there is no generational handover, and those who already have their qualification and client list built up gain value while apprentices are scarce.

How much a trade really pays

Here the numbers break the story of the bricklayer rolling in money. The thread cites a typical salary of 900 to 1.100 euros, and one user says that their acquaintances who are mechanics, electricians and transport workers, some already 40, have been doing the same since they were 18 without rising above the minimum wage. Another message tells of a full-time painter, mornings and afternoons, who was taking home 1.900 euros before quitting.