Benefits

[Jonspark]

Moving on from grinding your gears, what do others consider a benefit of being an electrician as opposed to other occupations?

Being a nosey type, one of mine is having access all areas.

 

[Guest77]

Well an electrician is a real skilled Job, admittedly some other trades are also very skilled, but not many takes 4 years at college and 5 years on site to become competant, I'm talking Electrician not Electrical Trainee here.

 

[ian.settle1]

Well an electrician is a real skilled Job, admittedly some other trades are also very skilled, but not many takes 4 years at college and 5 years on site to become competant, I'm talking Electrician not Electrical Trainee here.

Does that include a domestic electrician?

 

[Pete999]

Does that include a domestic electrician?

Whats one of those then?

 

[ruston]

The biggest advantage is there are loads to talk to at the end of the bar.:devil:

 

[ian.settle1]

Whats one of those then?

Don't know but a lot of posts on here say that they want to be one or are already one.

 

[ian.settle1]

The biggest advantage is there are loads to talk to at the end of the bar.:devil:

Sounds like a line from the P & O anthem

"If you want a lecky well give it a miss as there's 2 on the wenches and 4 on the Pi$$"

 

[Pete999]

Don't know but a lot of posts on here say that they want to be one or are already one.

Yeah I heard that strange isn't it?

 

[Adam W]

I think the option to specialise is a definite plus.
Once you can do the basics you can then choose to focus on offices, shops, factory installation, factory maintenance, commercial maintenance, marine (recreational, industrial or defence), aviation, rail, highways, or indeed house bashing.

I don't know about 'access all areas' (the guy who was somewhere to do a specific job but took it upon himself to have a nosey around and start quoting for stuff which was none of his business springs to mind) but you definitely get to work in some interesting places - places you wouldn't otherwise get to see.

 

[Pete999]

Seriously, if I hadn't become a sparky in 1966 after my apprenticeship I wouldn't have met and worked with some good people, also wouldn't have the opportunity to travel all over the world, working in some exotic and some gruesome places, retiring in the next couple of weeks, so all in all I had a varied working life, so there.

 

[Plonker 3]

Does that include a domestic electrician?

Whats one of those then?

Come one now, there is a big difference between a domestic electrician and a Electrical Trainee. I would like to think because someone has done the full training and chose the domestic path to be treated like any other electrician on here.

 

[rapparee]

Come one now, there is a big difference between a domestic electrician and a Electrical Trainee. I would like to think because someone has done the full training and chose the domestic path to be treated like any other electrician on here.

Totally agree, house bashing is a skill in itself. I'm a factory boy and i worked for a week (during my holidays) with a few house sparks. It's cold and dirty work, with joiners, plasterers and plumbers stuck in your road everytime you turn round.

 

[Anthony S]

If your efficient, organised, tooled up properly ie decent chaser & hoover and quick you can earn good money in domestic work.

I popped my head into domestic at 30 years old, after mainly working in commercial/light industrial from the early days started at 16 with a jib company. Done a wide range of work in those 14 years, but once I got a sniff of price work in domestic and realised what I could earn, I couldn't bite the hand that was feeding me.

Once the money in domestic hits rock bottom then Ill just go back on proper sites, because jib cards are becoming the normal requirement once more, similar to when I was an apprentice in the late 80's

 

[sjhall]

The easy in making little bits of extra cash.... I often fit in the changing of light fittings In between jobs and on my way home.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

Can cause serious injury to plumbers and plasterers :beatnik2: