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You realise though that you are on a long journey and for that you should be proud of your ethical and moral standards as it truly is the best way to make the best of yourself with the route into the Industry you have chosen and I bet you wouldn’t dream of leaving an install in anywhere near as bad nick as that. The reason why so many so called “3 week wonders” get slated is because so many cowboys take that route and see it as a path to do whatever the h**l they like and get away with fleecing people. It is very true that their are traditionally trained fully qualified electricians that certainly do not deserve the title as well. But I am willing to bet that the number of cowboy 3 week wonders far exceeds the number of cowboy traditionally trained sparks just because of how most apprentices are effectively ridiculed (I know I certainly was) to ensure the mistakes are learned from and lifelong lessons are ingrained, how ethically devoid certain training centres are and indeed how ethically devoid the aforementioned cowboys are. In every trade, profession and route to trades and professions there are people who are undeserving of the title and as such should be stripped of it and never allowed to be a practicing electrician again, at least not without intensive retraining (both the “3 week wonders” and the traditionally qualified types)You can’t ALWAYS blame these type of poor installs on the short course electricians, but as a usual you do as it’s so easy todo so. Fully trained, time served electricians have also done some of these atrocious installs as well over the years, as can be seen on YouTube and other forums and even this forum too. As of yet there’s NO proof this install was done by a short course electrician or a time served one either.
I’m proud to say that I took the Tradeskills4U route and completed their Bronze Electricians course which is actually 3 & half weeks in total (18 days), does this make me an electrician, NO, but on paper and based on the C&G’s exams I took (which nearly EVERY electrician has passed), I’m qualified and classed as a competent person to carry out domestic electrical work, but I am on a very, very long journey of gaining experience, which is never ever ending, even for the ‘time served’ electricians out there.
Remember that no matter how qualified, experienced or however much anyone thinks they are there is always room for improvement and room to learn. This forum is gold dust in that sense and it can really open your eyes to things you may have never considered or things you could have done better. Don’t take the criticisms to heart. They aren’t about you. The criticism falls on the hopelessly incompetent people purporting to be electricians. Quite Frankly I don’t give a damn about which route you or anybody else have taken into the industry as long as they understand that a qualification of any type is meaningless without good experience to back it up.