Worth becoming an electrician with no drivers license?

[Heather2023]

What title says basically. Sorry if this has been posted before but I couldn't find anything. I'm 23, finished a degree in costume a year ago and looking for a career change for a number of reasons I won't bore you with. I'm unable to drive due to ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder) because it means that my reactions are too slow to drive safely and I lack spacial awareness among other things. I'm looking into training as a spark but I'm worried that my lack of drivers license will make it very difficult to find work bc from what I'm seeing, a lot of electrical jobs involve going from place to place rather than staying in one spot, and I'm sure drivers will be preferred over non-drivers for that kind of work for obvious reasons.
Thanks for reading and advice would be great!

 

[Flanders]

Have you look into working as a maintenance electrician at a factory

 

[Spoon]

Just to add to the above, you could also look into becoming an Electrical Design Engineer.

Edit: Oh, welcome to the forum mate.

 

[littlespark]

Loads of places might require an “in house” spark…. Not just factories.

And there’s maintenance teams where there’s a team of people and only one needs to drive.


My youngest daughter is named Heather.

 

[davesparks]

The jump from costume to electrician is quite the change!

It is possible to be an electrician without a driving licence but it will be a challenge.
Personally I specialise in theatres and the majority of my work is in the west end so, whilst I can drive, most of the time I travel by train/tube.

If you've done costume does that imply you have an interest in theatre or the theatre industry?
If you do then have you considered a different branch of technical theatre, LX, sound, video, automation etc?

The west end seems to be short of decent technicians at the moment, if the absolute showers of s*** I've been working with recently are anything to go by, and you can get around easily enough without driving.

 

[MJPD29]

Factory maintenance jobs are in abundance right now. Job sites seem to be littered with them. You absolutely can make a living without a license but site work would be challenging with ever changing locations

 

[plugsandsparks]

I did a spell as a panel builder and quite liked it
Panel Building is good money and you can learn a lot in a good environment.
Hope this helps
P&S