What made you want to be a sparky ?

[malcolmsanford]

Well for me it was the lure of exotic climes, always having a gorgeous blonde on my arm, fame wealth and an endless supply of class A drugs ...................

So after a life long career in quantum physics and a former Nobel Prize winner, I answered an advert in a magazine, promising me a wonderful career in 5 weeks earning 50k a year .............so here I'am 6 weeks later, my phone as not stopped ringing.

I have 6 rewires this week alone, I've turned down 4 CU changes and next week I start a fair size project on some terminal extension in Heathrow, I just can't seem to get enough twin and earth for that one though.

I'm trying to fit a trip over to the States to introduce the Oscars, I have this bird leaving me messages on my phone Jennifer someone asking for a date, and I just found out today from a guy called Barlow he wants me to do all the lights for some gig in June

I don't know why I never took the plunge sooner really.

 

[telectrix]

Well for me it was the lure of exotic climes, always having a gorgeous blonde on my arm, fame wealth and an endless supply of class A drugs ...................

So after a life long career in quantum physics and a former Nobel Prize winner, I answered an advert in a magazine, promising me a wonderful career in 5 weeks earning 50k a year .............so here I'am 6 weeks later, my phone as not stopped ringing.

I have 6 rewires this week alone, I've turned down 4 CU changes and next week I start a fair size project on some terminal extension in Heathrow, I just can't seem to get enough twin and earth for that one though.

I'm trying to fit a trip over to the States to introduce the Oscars, I have this bird leaving me messages on my phone Jennifer someone asking for a date, and I just found out today from a guy called Barlow he wants me to do all the lights for some gig in June

I don't know why I never took the plunge sooner really.

keep taking the tablets, malc. send me a few over when you can. LOL.

 

[trev]

its easy and it only takes 5 weeks...

You're forgetting the £50K PA Steve.

 

[Des 56]

All my brothers were plasterers so naturally at the ripe old age of 15 I became an unofficial app plasterer, working in Swansea and in digsI got peed off after a few weeks because I was stuck in the digs whilst the others went to the boozers,jumped on the train,went home saw an advert for apprentices(mech+elect) for the colliery and did the exam I had a piece of paper sent to me offering a job as app electrician (electrician.the only thing I knew about electrics was how to plug the iron into the light adaptor

)I'm still deciding if I have made the right move

 

[alarm man]

You're forgetting the £50K PA Steve.

hes got a pa on 50k,i could do that job easy...

 

[alarm man]

All my brothers were plasterers so naturally at the ripe old age of 15 I became an unofficial app plasterer, working in Swansea and in digsI got peed off after a few weeks because I was stuck in the digs whilst the others went to the boozers,jumped on the train,went home saw an advert for apprentices(mech+elect) for the colliery and did the exam I had a piece of paper sent to me offering a job as app electrician (electrician.the only thing I knew about electrics was how to plug the iron into the light adaptor

)I'm still deciding if I have made the right move

des,replace app with apprentice mate,we will have an infux of ipod sparks soon...any one got the app to be a spark...

 

[scotsparky]

des,replace app with apprentice mate,we will have an infux of ipod sparks soon...any one got the app to be a spark...

isnt that just Google?

 

[TJS]

I think i was destined to be a sparks, when I was young I would pull things apart to find out how they worked

 

[silva.foxx]

I was bumming around doing A-levels in Geography, Maths and Computing. Failed. Clip around ear from old'man and dragged in to an apprenticeship where he was a factory spark. Never really enjoyed it.

Moved about a little. Well paid. Well fed. Look back on it with appreciation these days.

Still don't really enjoy it though my interest improved when I got into the automation side of things.

I can think of worse careers to be in!

If I could rewind... I'd have been an Undertaker! Even though its a dying trade too !

 

[Knobhead]

Father insisted his two sons were not going to be factory hands like him. Brother went as an electrical apprentice with the same company as Dad. 9 years later I was offered the same apprenticeship and another with a multi national chemical company, no way was I going to work with Dad and brother.

The rest is history, 40 years on from signing my name to my indentures I can say I’VE ENJOYED EVERY MINUTE OF IT!

OK at times when I’ve been up to the eyeballs in s**t I’ve questioned my sanity. (Had two nervous breakdowns due to work induced stress. I go home but I still can’t switch off).
But I’ll just keep taking the pills

 

[Jonesy83]

wanted to join the army to get in the reme did the aptitude test at the careers office got a good enough score becuase i wear glasses i had to send my prescription off to them which they then told me my eyesight was to poor which gutted me then got a job with a mechanic which didnt last long becuase he got nicked for drink driving in a customers car so my dad offered me an apprentiship rest is history

 

[Dan the spark]

Worked as a Saturday lad as an aerial rigger, saw a cupboard full of cables on site one day and thought wouldn't mind learning what they all do......what was I thinking!

 

[grimysparks80]

I was labouring on a college building site and trying to decide weather to be a sparky or a plumber.

What decided me was one particular day when at one end of the building a plumber an his mate were lugging a boiler the size of a chest freezer up some stairs, while at the other 6 sparkies were gathered round a socket discussing what to do with it.

Yep I thought. Thats the job for me.:sleep1:

 

[Bobster]

People will always need electricity.

In my mind I thought there would always be plenty of work...

 

[johnboy6083]

My dad told me when I was 16, that he wouldn't sign my papers to join the army unless I got a trade. I asked to be a plumber, but there was no space, so I was told I would train as a spark. Ive since had jobs doing both, although only simple pipefitting, and I enjoy both.