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    I Need Work Willing to work for free

    If you've been in the building game get in touch with people - someone will take you on since you have a lot of transferable skills. This is a hard industry to break into but you've got a leg up on any teenager already. Go for paid mates/improver roles. Try agencies.
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    I Need Work Willing to work for free

    As keen as you are i will say set your stall out as you mean to go on. You don't wanna be the worm and offer to do stuff for free etc. You're worth minimum wage at least, you don't need to offer to work for free. Anyone willing to take you on and watch you graft and travel here there and...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    Doing the same job as someone who has paperwork, just without paperwork, isn't unethical. Real ethics have little to do with arbitrary regulations made up by men. I don't consider people like Edison or Franklin to be charlatans because they lacked formal education. I wouldn't consider it...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    Depends how you define ethical though. I wouldn't say carrying out a CU change for example with zero qualifications is 'unethical' if you know you can do the job safely. Some would.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    I would guess people who feel confident and competent to do the work wouldn't have a problem with ethics since they probably don't think they're doing anything wrong. That said i find people to be much more ---- online about all the stuff we talk about on here compared with real life where most...
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    Newly Qualified Domestic EV Installer

    Salary, if you can get someone to take you on, will be around the minimum wage bracket until you have some experience. Best case is someone takes you on as an improver or mate and pays you up to around say £13-14/hour. The domestic course isn't really worth the paper it's printed on if you're...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    Exactly. The only thing stopping anyone doing any domestic work they want is that some of it should be notified to building control and often the customer will expect the electrician to do it via certifying the installation after the work is complete. If you do electrical work without doing...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    I said 'if'. Hypothetical.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    So if they say you can't join a competent person's scheme without a gold card you're going to give up work? Did you do the same when the schemes themselves came out?
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    There are none.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    Nope, none of this was said anywhere. I don't think you watched or understood the video. They are bringing in a domestic apprenticeship which results in a Gold Card to prove you've done said apprenticeship. For those that haven't you will have to prove competency through an 'experienced worker'...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    ?
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    3 year apprenticeship. Did you watch the video? My point is that honest decent people aren't going to undertake work that they're not legally allowed to do, knowing full well they're not legally allowed to do it. Which is most people. They will also not pay for courses that don't give them...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    It's in the title.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    I really don't get how nobody seems to realise this thread is about those doing short courses and not 'dave down the pub'. It's even in the thread title. ?
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    But how many people would undertake a £5k 6 week course knowing they wouldn't be allowed to touch electric after? You don't think this stops an influx of career changers doing short domestic courses? Those doing it for beer money will continue to do so and always will. This stops honest people...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    What 'breach' of Part P? As far as i'm aware that's just a building regulation that states the HOMEOWNER has to inform Building Control of electrical work. That's why people get away with doing it, because it's not an actual law governing what an ELECTRICIAN must and mustn't do.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    I would hazard a guess that most of those wanting to get into the industry who are diluting it with crap prices, no skills, etc, would not go down that path should there be a 3-year+ standard to adhere to. The point of this is that there will be a standard coming in that means the 6 week...
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    You don't think most of those currently doing domestic electrics would cease to do so if it were made a criminal offence? At the very least they will get the qualifications this new thing demands or cease to carry out domestic work imo.
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    Is this the end of 6 week wonders? New Domestic Gold Card Apprenticeship announced

    The point is that most people are honest and if it's made illegal to do work without the card, most people will no longer carry out the work. If those going on 6 week courses know they cannot legally touch any electric afterwards, they will likely choose a different career path. There will...

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