Get 18th, Get testing and inspection, go to work?

[BiddeldyBwah]

Sat contemplating life as normal and started thinking about this.

Anyone can do the 18th and the testing and inspection qualifications.

So is it not theoretically possible to do those and simply specialise in testing and inspection? I mean why go through installation courses etc if you can just get a job doing testing with two paid-for courses?

Or am i missing the mark here? Do you need other specific quals to be able to do the certs? Of course i know that you won't be able to do a CPS without experience first but you could work under someone else acting as QS at a company and do testing all day long, no? I know at our company the boss acts as QS and all the NAPIT etc stuff is under him but the other qualified lads (the ones with 2391 and the 18th edition) do the testing.

 

[Lister1987]

Wow, so you nearly became a plumber or a painter?

someone was giving you a push in to a field you would ultimately excel in.

could be worse, you could be on a forum trying to explain what the best type of roller is to paint a ceiling or how to paint a door without leaving drips running down it.

Don't, you'll make Dan realise there's no decoratorsforum.net or plasterersforums.net

 

[DPG]

The intention is always to learn as you go, but others in here are saying competency isn't gained until several years of shadowing some other guy who has the same qualification as you.

I think that's nonsense for reasons i already outlined.

The qualification proves the competency otherwise you wouldn't pass it. Those who want to gate keep electrics think otherwise but that's fine because they only live on the internet.

This old thread reminds me of a more recent one.

 

[nicebutdim]

This old thread reminds me of a more recent one.

There's a good reason for that...