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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    Thanks for your response pal but Yh I guess I meant in a way that you take extra care and study longer to ensure that everything is up to standard. Also you have a greater liability then any other trade with gas engineers as an exception.
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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    Thanks for your response and yh fortunately not had any issues so far but I’ve only been doing smaller jobs at the moment. Square up is pretty good I use that as POS and just get the customer to tap and pay before I leave. I spoke to another self employed electrician and said he use to always...
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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    That’s solid advice, thanks for sharing! I like the idea of offering labour-only for bigger jobs to get experience without the massive upfront cost. Definitely going to keep that in mind. Sounds like you really knew how to do things right – 30 years self-employed is seriously impressive. Sorry...
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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    Ouch, sounds like you’ve had your fair share of bad luck there! Getting stung by a customer is the worst – always seems to come out of nowhere and the ones you least expect. And the deer story… well, at least you allegedly made the best of a bad situation! Appreciate the tips – I’ll check out...
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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    Really appreciate your reply man I think this needs to be talked more about. There is very little guidance on how people built there electrical companies from ground zero. Fortunately a lot of people have family members who have done the leg work, and then they take over there business. It’s...
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    How to get contracts and work for a newly qualified electrician

    Hi I was wondering how electricians get most of their work and how they break into the commercial sector. I am the only electrician in my family and don’t really have a good network as I have just finished an apprenticeship, and the work I was doin was very basic maintenance with a little...

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