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As the title says , why did you do it ? What ever were you thinking !:rolleyes2:

I got into it after my old man said i needed a trade when i finished school , and the family farm was not big enough for both me and my older brother to work on together !
He wanted me to be a pipe jockey but after trying to fix a broken video recorder it was changed to a sparky (I never did manage to put that bloody thing back together again !!!).:hammer:
 
simple !was offered YTS when i left school plumber or bricky £27 a week ,my dad came home and his firm offered me £42 a week as a apprentice spark! here i am 25 years later a millionaire!!!!!!!!
 
Was 26 yrs old and flicking through the college website when I saw the course. I've always been interested in wiring lights so I thought y not..... 2 1/2 yrs on and it was the best thing I've ever done. I seem to just get it
 
Plumbing and Carpentry I learned from my father to an acceptable DIY standard so Electrics seemed the natural course for a practical young chap.


pipe jockey, hmmm...

# Aaannndd its 'Waterflow' being held back by 'Ballcock' in an increasingly pressurised race, 'Plunger' is pushing through as 'Airlock' is holding back, 'Bidet' is staying a the rear 'Check valve' rushes past the pack only to be beaten by 'Soldered Joint' sweating to the finish#
 
done btec in construction, and thought have few options now, structural engineer was the one i liked, but we had ababy so didnt apply for full time course where electrical was 1 day per week and could still earn... aand i do like it most of time..
 
I was working in a factory that made switchgear, after countless jobs in various factories scince leaving school and having seen the manufacturing industry go right down the sh***ter in this country i saw an ad in a local paper for a trainee electrician, went for an interview, they were offering me the same rate of pay i was currently on for being a trainee (£5 ph) and they were going to pay for me to go to college, and it would be nights so i didnt miss a days pay, and they payed for the hours i was actually at college, Bonza,!!! I started in Jan/feb on the provisio that if i cut it i would start college in sept, well suffice to say i never looked back, I was 26 at the time, 29 when i qualified, 35 now and wonder why i just didnt do something more simple with my career!!! lol
 
My Dad's a sparky, followed him around from as soon as I could walk so had a fairly long unofficial apprenticeship. Never bothered qualifying until recently (Used to Electrical Trainee route to get paper's - I don't mind being honest) Ideally would like to emmigrate with it but now we have a kiddie it might not be so easy to go.
 
TBH who knows

i fitted windows
qualified as a 360 digger operator at 17
then my old man who's a spark basically told me to sort it out and get a "proper trade" never looked back!
 
Saw an electrician and thought this looks like an easy job, walking round with a pair of pliers and a screwdriver fixing things.

Big mistake - 38 years and loads of courses later still hard at it trying to make a living !
 
family talked me out of a mechanical apprenticeship, did a full time electrical lev 2 course for a year then started my apprenticeship at 18 started the course all over did lev 2 again before lev 3, then done 17th am2 and 2391 just took a chance tbh and luckilly love it, love the mindset ive always thought it takes a lot of common sense to be a spark and good problem solving skills which i like
 
Well for me it was the lure of exotic climes, always having a gorgeous blonde on my arm, fame wealth and an endless supply of class A drugs ...................

So after a life long career in quantum physics and a former Nobel Prize winner, I answered an advert in a magazine, promising me a wonderful career in 5 weeks earning 50k a year .............so here I'am 6 weeks later, my phone as not stopped ringing.

I have 6 rewires this week alone, I've turned down 4 CU changes and next week I start a fair size project on some terminal extension in Heathrow, I just can't seem to get enough twin and earth for that one though.

I'm trying to fit a trip over to the States to introduce the Oscars, I have this bird leaving me messages on my phone Jennifer someone asking for a date, and I just found out today from a guy called Barlow he wants me to do all the lights for some gig in June

I don't know why I never took the plunge sooner really.
 
Well for me it was the lure of exotic climes, always having a gorgeous blonde on my arm, fame wealth and an endless supply of class A drugs ...................

So after a life long career in quantum physics and a former Nobel Prize winner, I answered an advert in a magazine, promising me a wonderful career in 5 weeks earning 50k a year .............so here I'am 6 weeks later, my phone as not stopped ringing.

I have 6 rewires this week alone, I've turned down 4 CU changes and next week I start a fair size project on some terminal extension in Heathrow, I just can't seem to get enough twin and earth for that one though.

I'm trying to fit a trip over to the States to introduce the Oscars, I have this bird leaving me messages on my phone Jennifer someone asking for a date, and I just found out today from a guy called Barlow he wants me to do all the lights for some gig in June

I don't know why I never took the plunge sooner really.

keep taking the tablets, malc. send me a few over when you can. LOL.
 
All my brothers were plasterers so naturally at the ripe old age of 15 I became an unofficial app plasterer, working in Swansea and in digsI got peed off after a few weeks because I was stuck in the digs whilst the others went to the boozers,jumped on the train,went home saw an advert for apprentices(mech+elect) for the colliery and did the exam I had a piece of paper sent to me offering a job as app electrician (electrician.the only thing I knew about electrics was how to plug the iron into the light adaptor
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)I'm still deciding if I have made the right move
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