What's your line of work and do you enjoy it?

[appspark]

So my thinking for this post is that hopefully I will be time served at the end of the year and wondering where I want to take my career. I'd like to hear from everyone; house bashers, industrial, commercial, offshore, maintenance sparks(shout if I forgot you) and what a typical day is for you and how much you enjoy your job.
I'm a mix of industrial/commercial currently and thinking about getting into maintenance work when my time's up.

 

[Besoeker]

Variable speed drives for me.

 

[VoltzElectrical]

Public Lighting now. Depends if the sun is shining and if I get lumped with the lazy gangs. Miss the commercial installation.

 

[shanky887614]

bms,door access usually with a bit of power thrown in every now and then.

usually its anoying because we don't usually get any information etc.

 

[LankyWill]

Mainly work in the domestic sector for large builders. I enjoy it when the prices are fair and im home by 5 but this is rare sadly. The works very mind numbing now and looking to head on out either self-employed or try and gain some experience in the commercial sector to broaden my skill set.

 

[moby1991]

smoke ventilation, i do car park extract,natural ventilation, pneumatic systems, variable speed drives units big fan units, 24v actuators etc, remedial some new install, mainly servicing and call outs, too much to write if i mention everything

 

[Dave OCD]

I went self employed just over a year ago having spent 24+ years in an inspector role overseeing street lighting maintenance/renewals and loads of other Highway electrical equipment for the local Council.
Got totally fed up with the ridiculous red tape,paperwork and'office politics' [not to mention Cretinous managers] and luckily got out with a bit of redundancy.
I mainly do domestic work, probably about 70% of it is fairly small works such as extensions/new kitchen electrics/ consumer unit upgrades/ additional sockets/external lighting/outbuilding supplies/showers/alarms, testing and fault finding etc. I also do a fair few electrical installs for system boilers [gas and oil] for a very good plumbing and heating engineer.
In that 1st year I have never had a lull yet and it's all recommendation, if you do things properly with pride in your work and don't take the ---- with your prices you'll always have plenty of work. :smile5:

 

[Lucien Nunes]

Special projects only for theatres, historic buildings & control gear i.e. stuff I like. Will pick up tools to dress bare copper 7L1.5 round ornamental columns, troubleshoot 1950's machine drives or chuck 200kW of light at dancing girls. Otherwise prefer to stick to arm waving and keyboard bashing. Occasionally get the Hilmor out for old times sake, prefer not to have to actually bend anything in it. Love every minute.

 

[ImpededLoop]

Currently enjoying plenty of commercial work. Mainly controls based stuff; boiler rooms, variable speed drives, steel trunking etc. Have also been having a go at building control panels recently which is a new skill for me.

Other than that, I don't mind domestic boiler systems, but I'm otherwise a bit bored with domestic works.

 

[Brightspark2]

Mixture of commercial and industrial. Installation, testing, maintenance and call outs.

Spend quite a bit of time on waste water and oil recycling plants. Very messy, absolutely stink but I like it...

 

[Aindowsimon]

Commercial , domestic , industrial in that order I would say , I mostly instal heating controls across the board but I can end up doing absolutely anything .
My job suites me Wel ,
I love working with my hands and learning something new and taking pride in something and looking at work I'd want my name put to, in whatever aspect of my industry I'm working in

 

[tigerpaul]

Mon-fri I work for a contractor on a large MOD site. It gets me my regular money, but I doubt I'll go anywhere with this lot, so weekends and evenings I do my own work which is primarily commercial shop refits and light industrial units and a bit of house bashing, though domestic is not my first choice really.
hopefully my own business will pick up and I'll get to the point where I can go for it full time.

 

[overskilled]

If I'd had the chance to get the experience would have went industrial. ..did 2 3/4 years of house bashing...not bad at first...by the end though just a pain. ..everyone wanting it done yesterday for nothing.....and lately have been getting calls about rewires etc (now I'm no longer se )
Went and did a retraining course in welding this past year and next year doing a course on machining and looking to see if I can get my foot in somewhere as an industrial mechanic / millwright (bit of everything ) or maybe maintenance

 

[Paul651975]

Done my apprenticeship in a factory in Devon, ended up staying for 13 years doing everything from install to maintaining cnc machinery, then left and worked for a large facilities company in the Midlands working at a large hospital for 5 years which was very interesting work, everything from bms, medical gases, fire alarms to small install and repairs and testing. Now back in Devon again working for another facilities company looking after two community hospitals which involves doing everything plumbing, electrical, carpentry. This has got to be the best job of the lot as it is varied work and because they are small sites the workload is fairly laid back (nothing needs doing yesterday very often):teeth_smile:

 

[jeremy]

Recently mostly been doing Highways communications upgrades, (very dull), but on "paperwork" days I've been getting a bit of domestic stuff; outbuildings, rewires, outside lights, which has been enjoyable as a change.