A positive start!

MATT99 · Aug 10, 2010

Ok as there are so many people such as myself just starting out with training and looking for work within the trade i would like to read some positive posts of peoples early days, about how they got into work etc. I ask this as i have read many many posts that are negative (although true) and would like some moral boosting stories for all us newbies.

To all who share thanks!

Phil · Aug 10, 2010

i would love to say i got a job with no trouble and it was all good ect ect, but it was not like that and thats not a negative view it`s an honest one. but i will say this to all the new guy`s and girls out there you have to stay positive and keep banging away with cvs training and experience and the job will follow. it might be a struggle but its worth it. what a set we are in our profession. i feel privileged to have been taught and worked with some of the best electricians there are out there. for every one bad one there are 100 good ones. i don`t regret a moment of what i have done in the trade i just wish i had done it earlier. keep your heads and standards up.

MATT99 · Aug 10, 2010

Ok so maybe saying negative in my post was a wrong choice of wording. I know this is not going to be easy but i am 100% committed to push myself to do as well as i can within the trade. Was just looking for a few success stories really and u seemed to deliver that so ta very much.

robsparky1975 · Aug 10, 2010

If you work hard at everything you do,you will suceed in this business,you get knocked down,you get up again,a bit like the song,there is good money to earn(barring a recession)cant say i have ever met a skint retired electrician and one that was unhappy with his career choice,its a job for life really,even if you dont stay with 1 firm

SirKit Breaker · Aug 10, 2010

I was lucky in that when i left school in 1978 there were jobs a plenty. So I could within reason take my pick. So I Joined the RAF and was offered Aircraft Electrician, after they declined my offer to them to become a Fast Jet Pilot. Well the advert said Fast Jet Pilots required, no experience necessary, so I thought at 16 years old i would have some of that. Anyway, i went down that route into Avionics etc. Worked on most of the Fast jets of the day, and all the other stuff as well like Hercules, Nimrod and Helicopters. Got drunk in several foreign lands and even got kicked out of France (but thats for another day

), and got caught up in the Falklands war.

Left the RAF after 8 years after they had forked out the national debt of a small country to train me. Played about with Commercial Airliners for a while then drifted into Electronics, then Electric Forklift trucks, then fell into Domestic Electrics by default when i had a loft conversion done, the builder asked me who was going to wire it up, i told him ME, and he offered me all the others he was doing. The rest is a long and eventful history.

I took the chances given to me by the RAF and others and got all my quals at their expense, I also was lucky enough to visit some nice foreign lands and get paid for doing it.
So take every opportunity that comes your way, and if you are asked or told to do something you dont like then look for what you can benefit out of it, because there is always something to be had even from a bad proposition.

Cheers...........Howard