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well...i`m not goin through all past posts...anyway, perhaps you can enlighten us as to all your certs etc..still not qualified then. Where is this 'misleading information' that I supposedly espoused?
No engineer54 it changes from April 2013 you need a level 3 qual and the 17th regs course. I was joking about becoming a plumber lol - electrical theory is actually really interesting.
anyway.....thats the long n short of it.....
i never said i had my level three finished......but i am finding it straighforward....
my 2391..i got towards the end of my 1st year at college....
my 2382 i got before i started college....it was at that point that i decided that if i wanted to persue a career in the electrical field....then it had to be done in the correct manner......thats why i chose to get myself to college and enrol on the 2330.......and i will maintain that it was the right and correct thing to do and would also encourage anyone wishing to get into the electrical trade that this is the way to go...not and i repeat not the `become an electrician in 6 weeks` avenue....
further more i only give advice on stuff i know about and refuse to hand out advice that could be misleading and/or otherwise dangerous to the recipient of such advices.....
as for where do i go after i have finished college.....who knows?...
i may decide to go further ..or i may decide to carry on doing what i`m currently doing (ECRs, install etc)
we`ll see..
Sounds like yet another Lamb to the slaughter!!
Make you wonder what sort of mentality these people have, if they honestly think they can become an electrician in 17 days/5 weeks!!! God help us all!!!
We can't all quit our jobs and take years out to do apprenticeships, we have all got to start somewhere. I know several older guys who did proper apprenticeships years ago and told them I was doing a 6 week course etc, and they were really quite taken by it, they did agree that if you make a good job of things and are competent there's no problem.
I think there's a lot of people who do short courses and the go on to trash people's houses! There's nothing to say that someone who has been doing it 20 years is going to be any better, it's like saying you have had a driving licence for 50 years so it makes you better at driving.
Don't apprenticeships in the UK do day-release? Here in Guernsey as an apprentice you are employed by an electrical firm, learning on the tools with experienced colleagues, and go to College for one day a week, and in some years an evening class session as well. The government pays the employer a certain amount as compensation for losing his apprentice for one day, and it lets the apprentice get paid for a full 5 days.We can't all quit our jobs and take years out to do apprenticeships
you mean like the `napit2391`?...lol..Call me an old cynic if you want mate but I reckon what the scams will do is offer conditional acceptance onto the DI register providing THEIR L3 qual is completed within a certain timeframe as THEIR qual will be better than anyone else's.
I believe it's an NVQ that's going to be the reuirement though, all the same they'll be offering them.
Ill keep my mouth zipped shut as I know it's controversial to discuss such things. You might say I've been had, but at the end of the day, I've got a load of level 3 city and guilds, registered with the NIC and have the exact same assessments as someone who has been doing it 20 years. I don't feel it takes 4 years of training to do general house bashing, I could do all that before, the only reason I did the courses was because without bits of paper I'm not going to get far...
Im only ever going to touch domestic stuff, so I feel perfectly competent and cannot see any problem. I'm doing my city and guilds 2394 and 2395 next month too.
I won't say any more, id rather not get into a slanging match!
Ill keep my mouth zipped shut as I know it's controversial to discuss such things. You might say I've been had, but at the end of the day, I've got a load of level 3 city and guilds, registered with the NIC and have the exact same assessments as someone who has been doing it 20 years. I don't feel it takes 4 years of training to do general house bashing, I could do all that before, the only reason I did the courses was because without bits of paper I'm not going to get far...
Im only ever going to touch domestic stuff, so I feel perfectly competent and cannot see any problem. I'm doing my city and guilds 2394 and 2395 next month too.
I won't say any more, id rather not get into a slanging match!
exactly....i mean whats all that about?...I'm at a total loss here!! You say you have a successful business turning over 500K a year and your taking a know nothing domestic course?? The mind boggles!! lol!!
hang fire a minute here fella.....you state here you don`t want to do commercial work....yet you no doubt construct data systems within such premises..Yes because I want to do something else in my spare time having done the same thing for 12 years.
I dont see why I should spend thousands extra and months of training for someone to tell me how to do domestic work which frankly anyone and most unqualified people can do. yes if i wanted to do commercial work then yes I would do the proper route, but im not.
well we see and hear about a lot of `hobby electricians` in here....and sometimes were even treated to pics of their handywork....Have you never fancied a change of scene in your life? I guess not... Im only doing DI work for fun / hobby more than anything.
Have you never fancied a change of scene in your life? I guess not... Im only doing DI work for fun / hobby more than anything.
Have you never fancied a change of scene in your life? .
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