LeeG
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Hello
I'm Lee, live in Chesterfield and "qualified" with my 17th, Part P, and 2392/94/95 last year after completing a much -panned four week course. Yes I've read other forums, comments about such courses and yes i'm the product of one. Doesn't make me a bad person does it?
Was it easy - NO!
Do I think I know it all? - NOT A CHANCE!
Am I willing to learn from others? Hell YES
Do I need a job as an electricians mate- YES please
I am chuffed that I passed, being aged 41 when I did the course, (made redundant after 20 years in computer hardware, so thought I'd re-train) I was struck at how complicated this trade can actually be, how strict the regulations are (and even questionable about commonsense of those who set them up) and how it's much much more than just chucking down a few cables and connecting it all up (and praying)
In the big real world I've struggled to get going as a sole trader, applied for numerous jobs and not even heard a squeek of a reply but I'm sure we all know why I'm not being considered. Lack f experience, too old maybe? Have found hard to gain confidence in getting out there on my own faced with electrics that while I realised I'd see a lot of red/black cabling, let alone how it's been wired in the first place, junction boxes after junction boxes etc... think I'd prefer a career in window cleaning. I find it quite a stressful job actually. Why does something seemingly simple just take three times as long to do? Could just be me I suspect.
Not only that but the realisation that being a domestic electrician is more than just putting in a circuit, it's actually figuring out the layout and construction of a property and how to get a cable from point A to point B with minimal disruption, yeah right. Didn't learn that on the four week course eh!
I'm a member of STROMA (partly as it was the most economical one to join when you don't actually have much money) and I think it will be a few years before I'll have a much coveted NICEIC logo on my banger of a Renault Kangoo van.
So that's me. Be gentle.
I'm Lee, live in Chesterfield and "qualified" with my 17th, Part P, and 2392/94/95 last year after completing a much -panned four week course. Yes I've read other forums, comments about such courses and yes i'm the product of one. Doesn't make me a bad person does it?
Was it easy - NO!
Do I think I know it all? - NOT A CHANCE!
Am I willing to learn from others? Hell YES
Do I need a job as an electricians mate- YES please
I am chuffed that I passed, being aged 41 when I did the course, (made redundant after 20 years in computer hardware, so thought I'd re-train) I was struck at how complicated this trade can actually be, how strict the regulations are (and even questionable about commonsense of those who set them up) and how it's much much more than just chucking down a few cables and connecting it all up (and praying)
In the big real world I've struggled to get going as a sole trader, applied for numerous jobs and not even heard a squeek of a reply but I'm sure we all know why I'm not being considered. Lack f experience, too old maybe? Have found hard to gain confidence in getting out there on my own faced with electrics that while I realised I'd see a lot of red/black cabling, let alone how it's been wired in the first place, junction boxes after junction boxes etc... think I'd prefer a career in window cleaning. I find it quite a stressful job actually. Why does something seemingly simple just take three times as long to do? Could just be me I suspect.
Not only that but the realisation that being a domestic electrician is more than just putting in a circuit, it's actually figuring out the layout and construction of a property and how to get a cable from point A to point B with minimal disruption, yeah right. Didn't learn that on the four week course eh!
I'm a member of STROMA (partly as it was the most economical one to join when you don't actually have much money) and I think it will be a few years before I'll have a much coveted NICEIC logo on my banger of a Renault Kangoo van.
So that's me. Be gentle.
