A bricklayer who left school at 16 with no GCSEs says he's earning £10k a month and drives a £30k sportscar - 'by earning £1 a brick'.
Kurt Malpass, 26, was put on a course "for kids who don't listen" at school aged 16 but fell in love with bricklaying.
He got qualified and honed his trade working for a company before going self-employed at 19, and now earns up to £800 a day.
Savvy Kurt was able to buy his first £110k three-bed home aged 19, drives a £30k Audi S8 and earns up to £10k a month.
He shared videos about his work on TikTok and Instagram, where he boasts he earns '£1 a brick'.
In actual fact, it's 62p a brick - but it still enables him to live an affluent lifestyle he never thought possible as a youngster without conventional qualifications.
Kurt, from Tean, Staffordshire, said he still loves it years on - and has no plans to stop.
He said: "I'm quite clever but subjects like French, Spanish and geography never interested me.
"When I went to do bricklaying, I fell in love with it and I was naturally good at it too.
"I bought my first house at 19 - if you're willing to work hard and put in the hours you can earn ridiculous money.
"Being a bricklayer, people don't look at you like you're a clever person.
"People think it's easy and we're overpaid for what we do - but it's a skill and not everyone can do it."
At 16 Kurt struggled at school and was even once excluded for his behaviour in class.
He was put on a vocational pathway and got his level one qualification, but was such a dab-hand he bypassed other levels and went straight to a site.
Three years later he was experienced enough to fly solo and has worked on everything from new builds to million-pound mansions.
Charging 62p per brick, he makes £500 for a full day - but can make up to £800 if he works a long shift.
He earns between £8k and £10k per month - and people reckon he's lying when they find out how much he makes.
Kurt said: "When people see me doing it on Tiktok they think it's easy, and that they could do it, but its not.
"I also get a lot of comments saying 'my family member is a bricklayer, they don’t earn this money'.
"But if you're willing to work hard and put the hours in, you can earn ridiculous money."
He bought his first house aged 19, although he has moved since then, and at 26 drives a £30k Audi sports car which he bought outright.
He said he's working his way up to being able to buy a Lamborghini and hopes to start investing in property as a second income too.
He said: "I love it, I find it therapeutic.
"I couldn’t imagine where I'd be without bricklaying."
Kurt Malpass, 26, was put on a course "for kids who don't listen" at school aged 16 but fell in love with bricklaying.
He got qualified and honed his trade working for a company before going self-employed at 19, and now earns up to £800 a day.
Savvy Kurt was able to buy his first £110k three-bed home aged 19, drives a £30k Audi S8 and earns up to £10k a month.
He shared videos about his work on TikTok and Instagram, where he boasts he earns '£1 a brick'.
In actual fact, it's 62p a brick - but it still enables him to live an affluent lifestyle he never thought possible as a youngster without conventional qualifications.
Kurt, from Tean, Staffordshire, said he still loves it years on - and has no plans to stop.
He said: "I'm quite clever but subjects like French, Spanish and geography never interested me.
"When I went to do bricklaying, I fell in love with it and I was naturally good at it too.
"I bought my first house at 19 - if you're willing to work hard and put in the hours you can earn ridiculous money.
"Being a bricklayer, people don't look at you like you're a clever person.
"People think it's easy and we're overpaid for what we do - but it's a skill and not everyone can do it."
At 16 Kurt struggled at school and was even once excluded for his behaviour in class.
He was put on a vocational pathway and got his level one qualification, but was such a dab-hand he bypassed other levels and went straight to a site.
Three years later he was experienced enough to fly solo and has worked on everything from new builds to million-pound mansions.
Charging 62p per brick, he makes £500 for a full day - but can make up to £800 if he works a long shift.
He earns between £8k and £10k per month - and people reckon he's lying when they find out how much he makes.
Kurt said: "When people see me doing it on Tiktok they think it's easy, and that they could do it, but its not.
"I also get a lot of comments saying 'my family member is a bricklayer, they don’t earn this money'.
"But if you're willing to work hard and put the hours in, you can earn ridiculous money."
He bought his first house aged 19, although he has moved since then, and at 26 drives a £30k Audi sports car which he bought outright.
He said he's working his way up to being able to buy a Lamborghini and hopes to start investing in property as a second income too.
He said: "I love it, I find it therapeutic.
"I couldn’t imagine where I'd be without bricklaying."
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00:00 Bricklayers earning £60 per hour with no GCSEs.
00:05 Yes everyone, so we're going to be talking about bricklayers wages today and how much we can earn in an hour.
00:10 In this video I'm taking my time and I lay around 7 bricks in 1 minute.
00:14 You get paid at least 60p per brick.
00:16 So if you do the math I've done £4.20 in around a minute.
00:19 So if you just worked at this pace for 15 minutes of the hour, you'd be making £60 an hour.
00:25 This is how easy it is to make good money.
00:27 And also you don't need GCSEs for it.
00:30 I get a lot of people commenting saying you do need GCSEs but you don't.
00:34 If you're good at your job and you know how to lay bricks, you can work on any site and earn this sort of money easily.
00:39 Yes everyone, so I'm quickly going to show you how easy it is to earn £80 an hour with no GCSEs.
00:49 I'm on my first brick here and straight away that's 60p within about 2 seconds.
00:53 Here's my second one, £1.20.
00:56 Straight on to the third, £1.80.
00:58 It's took me about 18 seconds to lay 3 brick.
01:01 So you've only got to repeat this process around 45 times within the hour of you working and you'll easily earn £80.
01:09 And also you don't need any GCSEs to be a bricklayer.
01:12 People say you need the maths and your English but you don't really need it.
01:16 As long as you know how to lay bricks and how to build houses you can make this sort of money.
01:21 And it's not hard, some people are made for it, some people aren't.
01:24 You might pick a trial up and be a natural first time or it might take you a few years to learn how to do it.
01:29 But if you're good with your hands and you enjoy working outside and you like building stuff then you may as well give it a go because there's a lot of money to be earned in this game.
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02:36 Private work bricklaying.
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02:45 £1.00
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02:54 £2.00
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03:00 £3.00
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03:05 £4.00
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03:15 £5.00
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