What is the maths like being an electrician?

[Lee Gold]

Hello I am not very good at maths and was wondering what kind of maths do electricians use everyday?

 

[VoltzElectrical]

my year was described as the worst they have had, at least 5/6 teachers quit while i was at that school lol

The first school I served at as a newly qualified teacher, Supply teachers would walk out at 10 o'clock on their first day, and I was assaulted by 5 huge dudes and hit over the head with the stalk of an umbrella before it was thrown in my face. How did 'comp' students get so big and brave? I stuck out my 6 month temporary contract till the end though. Next job at least I only had books thrown at me.. i got off lightly!

 

[Diddy]

@Volts That is a sad but very interesting story mate. Hats off to you for being honest and true to yourself with regards to switching career. I did read a biography last year think it was "It's your time your wasting"....That books author tells a very similar story to your story. I have always believed that the lack of respect society in general gives school teachers is shocking. Made all the worse by the relentless governments attacks on their pay/pensions ect ect....The old "look at the holidays" always gets trotted out and always gets swallowed up by the gullible masses. A thankless and almost impossible task for teachers in the public sector.

 

[ipf]

The first school I served at as a newly qualified teacher, Supply teachers would walk out at 10 o'clock on their first day, and I was assaulted by 5 huge dudes and hit over the head with the stalk of an umbrella before it was thrown in my face. How did 'comp' students get so big and brave? I stuck out my 6 month temporary contract till the end though. Next job at least I only had books thrown at me.. i got off lightly!

......bring 'em on............I'd have loved a chance like that......

 

[VoltzElectrical]

2 of our teachers had breakdowns. It's not something I'm proud of now.

In one class I was in at school, a lad full on punched a teacher in the face such was the level of respect.

I do wonder sometimes what would have become of me if I had attended a really decent school and been allowed to explore things that might have truly interested me. I can't recall ONE metalwork or decent woodwork class, yet these are things that really interest me now.

Same as PE really. I still hate ball sports of all descriptions, and for years thought that I didn't like physical sports, until I discovered that I have a natural affinity for anything water based.

Now I love surfing, swimming, kayaking, canoeing, sailing, swimming. I also love walking, orienteering and all manner of things.

Yeah. School for me sucked and I didn't realise that there was so MUCH ELSE OUT THERE!

 

[Knobhead]

I excelled at English, got a degree in it and then went into 'teaching'.

I used inverted commas because there were very few opportunities to truly 'teach' at the low grade comprehensives that I worked at due to discipline issues.

I can teach, and teach well, but I am not good at controlling pupils' behaviour, and ultimately I found it not the career for me.

I envy you your natural aptitude for the industry, and the exceptional level of education tailored towards it that you have evidently enjoyed.

I did not have the opportunity to discover my interest in engineering and construction till much later in life. I attended a once esteemed school, that had it's intake boundaries redrawn to take in the undesirable wards.

This resulted in my year 7 class being described as the worst ever seen in the school, and we were split half way through the academic year. It didn't help, and things didn't improve. School for me was something to 'survive'.

And all this poor academic start was compounded by a chaotic home life, with a depressed single mother, runaway drug fuelled soon to be single mothers for sisters.....shall I go on?

Everyone has a story, this is just part of mine and perhaps I have been too candid. It's worth bearing in mind when posting on threads though.

Voltz.

I don’t envy teachers nowadays, discipline, to put it plainly can’t be upheld. Without discipline the system is hamstrung and descends into anarchy.

I do hold qualifications for training industrial operatives. Even in the workplace trying to get people to learn isn’t easy even though I held the ultimate sanction, their P45 if they didn’t take things onboard.
The real fun bit is teaching someone how to teach others, that dammed near had me ready to blow my brains out.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

@Volts That is a sad but very interesting story mate. Hats off to you for being honest and true to yourself with regards to switching career. I did read a biography last year think it was "It's your time your wasting"....That books author tells a very similar story to your story. I have always believed that the lack of respect society in general gives school teachers is shocking. Made all the worse by the relentless governments attacks on their pay/pensions ect ect....The old "look at the holidays" always gets trotted out and always gets swallowed up by the gullible masses. A thankless and almost impossible task for teachers in the public sector.

English is one of the most labour intensive subjects to deliver too. As an NQT, I would be up to 10 every night planning and marking books. The 'holidays' I spent devising schemes of work and catching up on a backlog of marking.

I find the people that make these remarks have absolutely no idea what is involved with teaching.

Bear in mind that I was on £18k a year for my troubles. Yes that's right, £85 a day on agency! I looked at a some teaching jobs advertised recently, and guess what, the rate is the same, and that is 10 years on!

I left teaching at £85 a day, with all that grief, to basically earn the same as an electrician's mate.

And I never looked back.

We have to ask ourselves as a society....who is going to be teaching our kids in the future, because if you think the electrical industry is in crisis, then don't even look at the teaching profession!

 

[trev]

Before I met Mrs Trev I was seeing a teacher, or rather I saw her now and again. The thing about the holidays is a myth

 

[JD6400]

Volts , that is rather spooky ! The same happened to me , but I was a 3rd year at secondary school ( not sure if that is the new year 7 ), when our form (3L) was carved up . The final nail in the coffin for our class was when on one day alone one class member was caught having a tug whilst in a maths lesson , another got stopped just in time by the deputy head from stoving our French teachers head in with a chair just as she had walked in to the lesson and the last one was a death threat received by another class mate for snitching on the one that was having that tug !
No wonder I used to get P"""sed in playground with another farmers son on home brew , before going to those few exams that I did bother to go too

 

[shanky887614]

Volts , that is rather spooky ! The same happened to me , but I was a 3rd year at secondary school ( not sure if that is the new year 7 ), when our form (3L) was carved up . The final nail in the coffin for our class was when on one day alone one class member was caught having a tug whilst in a in maths lesson , another got stopped just in time by the deputy head from stoving our French teachers head in with a chair just as she had walked in to the lesson and the last one was a death threat received by another class mate for snitching on the one that was having that tug !
No wonder I used to get P"""sed in playground with another farmers son on home brew , before going to those few exams that I did bothered to go too

year 7 is for 11 year olds

second year in Scotland i believe.

anyway 6 were pregnant in my year when we left lol.

couple got caught having sex, teachers locked in cupboards etc.

there were some funny momments and many smashed windows, in the end the school had built cubicals in a room for detention lol

(a few of the guys i knew in my year are forever in and out of prison)

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Motorbikes in the corridors, weed smoking under the stairs, fire extinguishers being set off, papers fires started IN MY CLASS, all standard practise.

I couldn't get my classes to TAKE THEIR COATS OFF, let alone expect them to provide a pen, or put their phones away. Any efforts to persuade them to do any of these things resulted in a riot.

And they want me to teach Shakespeare? It's laughable. I do wonder what they are up to now though. There were some good 'uns in there, their 'education' spoiled by the rest of the animals.

 

[trev]

David Majeed and Jimmy Graham having ----ing races in lessons. Oh what a highlight of my education that was.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

One parent asked me (at parent's evening) why I didn't set homework.

Why set it when only 0.1% would complete it. I mean, how do I get the rest to do it without giving myself a huge administrative nightmare?

Given the low ability level classes I had, I just concentrated on trying to get them to master the 'basics' in the time I had with them.

 

[7029 dave]

Was you in education then Volts.? Teacher no.?

 

[Diddy]

Motorbikes in the corridors, weed smoking under the stairs, fire extinguishers being set off, papers fires started IN MY CLASS, all standard practise.

I couldn't get my classes to TAKE THEIR COATS OFF, let alone expect them to provide a pen, or put their phones away. Any efforts to persuade them to do any of these things resulted in a riot.

And they want me to teach Shakespeare? It's laughable. I do wonder what they are up to now though. There were some good 'uns in there, their 'education' spoiled by the rest of the animals.

Write a book mate. You might make a few quid and it might be therapeutic.

 

[morph71]

After reading the thread on here all I can say is go for it!! What inspiration some of these people give you. Never give up.