Apparently electricians are earning over 150k a year!!

[Gavin John Hyde]

Just been shown a story on dailymail where some reporter is saying electricians are earning over 150k a year!!
What planet are they on?
Should anybody have info on employers paying electricians this much can you send me their address so i can apply.
I reckon some idiot has taken pimlicos 95 per hour and multiplied it by 40 x 52 or something daft.
Electricians are earning £156,000 a year | Daily Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4874400/Electricians-earning-156-000-year.html
The truth is the article is a secret pro eu story as no doubt it will be followed with one saying how we wont cope without foreign tradesmen.

 

[Gavin John Hyde]

The scrap price of Iron has Just gone in to outer space again £170 a tonne. So a medium size 4 door car with alloys will scrap as £40 the alloys, £40 the cat, and £150 the steel. A total of £210. So four carjacks over eight hours pays £840 a day.In a five day week £4200. So a 52 week year minus 6 weeks holidays gives £193200 per annum.
So £150000 a year for the honest toil of a concientious tradesman does not seam unreasonable to me.

Given this a bit too much thought haven't you!? I remember about 7 years ago around my home town loads of man hole covers, benches even war memorials were stolen as the thieving little S**ts stole it all for scrap as the prices were so good. You had junkies running along railway lines trying to take anything they could get there hands on.

 

[JK-Electrical]

You had junkies running along railway lines trying to take anything they could get there hands on.

I would have no complaints if the thieving sacks of reprobate scum were to get their hands on the overhead line. 25,000 volts would them do a power of good.

And on that subject ..... this is what happens when you take 25,000 volts (viewer discretion advised) .....

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[mjb]

I would not get out of bed for £150K

 

[GlenTavener]

Ok I believe you. Would have sounded more convincing along the lines of:

I've found this jumbled up copy of the Daily Mail, is it all right to read it like this or should I sort out the page numbers? Also, if I complete the prize crossword who should I notify? I will, of course, be purchasing my regular paper later and I will make sure it is all read correctly. Just thought I'd run this past you guys first.

I've met quite a few Army Officers who were plastered, but never the other way round.

Local to me a man once a big shot lawyer in London and left Oxford with 1st class hons degree but as happens in life his marriage went wrong and he went down. Asked me a while back to re-site his electric shower as he was going to block off this door and do many alterations then plaster it all. Cynical me thought bet that will look rough. On return found his plastering to be excellent easily as good if not better than many plasterers. Asking how he learned to do it so well, simply said he didn't have the skill so he enrolled in a course at a college. I always admire people who don't let life beat them down but come back fighting, and like most of us respect anyone who is not afraid to adjust to lifes changes. Any job done well and to support self and family is dignifying regardless of where anyone came from.

 

[Loki]

Them firms who do 5 week crash courses will love the article. They will use it to get more people signed up to be part p qualified!

“Electricians are earning £156,000 a year amid a shortage of skilled workers and a rise in demand for new homes” - https://www.ableskills.co.uk/blog/electricians-earning-156000-year-amid-shortage-skilled-workers/


LOL

 

[Rpa07]

Phew, that was quick and real!
Still prefer it to the forklift one from earlier in the year - still makes me shudder (don't try and find it, trust me!)

I would have no complaints if the thieving sacks of reprobate scum were to get their hands on the overhead line. 25,000 volts would them do a power of good.

And on that subject ..... this is what happens when you take 25,000 volts (viewer discretion advised) .....

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[JK-Electrical]

Phew, that was quick and real!
Still prefer it to the forklift one from earlier in the year - still makes me shudder (don't try and find it, trust me!)

Aye .... if you're going to go out, go out in a blaze of glory!

I haven't seen the forklift video, but your warning has inspired me to find it now, ghoul that I am.

 

[Rpa07]

IT was on the forum but thread closed as, like sheep, we just watch without thinking. Not good - don't do it!

Aye .... if you're going to go out, go out in a blaze of glory!

I haven't seen the forklift video, but your warning has inspired me to find it now, ghoul that I am.

 

[JK-Electrical]

IT was on the forum but thread closed as, like sheep, we just watch without thinking. Not good - don't do it!

I'm even more determined to find it now lol. I've seen disturbing videos of ISIS executions so I don't think this one could be any worse!

 

[Rpa07]

You've been warned - I now wash my hands of you! @JK-Electrical !

 

[JK-Electrical]

You've been warned - I now wash my hands of you! @JK-Electrical !

I was just having a laugh. I've no intention of scouring the Internet in search of gory electrocution videos as I have more important things to do ..... like scour the Internet in search of a job that pays over £150,000 a year.

 

[Rpa07]

IT was a gory crushing! You're still warned!

 

[JK-Electrical]

IT was a gory crushing! You're still warned!

I'll be heeding your warning!