Where do you prefer to work

[Andy Smith]

What sort of work do you prefer and why?

 

[sparks1234]

Anywhere but in Mrs Jones house..AAAARRRGh

 

[Andy Smith]

Your not the graduate are you? lol

 

[lister]

domestic - tea and quite often biccies brought to you!

 

[Guest123]

Nostril deep in galv,SWA and 3P is where i'll be.

 

[old dog]

dont really mind what i do but if i had to choose commercial

 

[Spudnik]

I prefer not to work because ive done my fair share of the 24/7 but the trouble is ive spent it all.

So now its domestic.

As Lister said, i usually get looked after with tea and biccies, and most of the time, you are left to get on with it on your own with no one watching over your shoulder - most of the time.

 

[AMST09]

Domestic is such a pain moving furniture, pulling cables through joists
Commercial is where its at...much cleaner than industrial

 

[Spudnik]

Domestic is such a pain moving furniture, pulling cables through joists

Ah yes, but its priced accordingly

 

[AMST09]

Yea but when your not the one that benefits from the pricing of the work then its not much good
And in my experience commercial will pay alot more for stuff as its not their own money as such

 

[sparks1234]

AMST09, you are a man after my own heart, they are almost my exact words

 

[Bazspark]

I enjoy domestic except for installing in line fans in undersized attics and loosing tools in insulation. Have to say that i worked in the states for 2 years rewiring schools and would definatly say commecial is cleaner and more straightforward

 

[adamh]

i prefer commercial plenty of space and usually nice and simple domestic is usually just annoying especially when u get the customers that start "helping" you OMG!!

 

[scotsparky]

Definetly Commercial repairs all the way

 

[DHES-LTD]

I prefer industrial, conduit, tray, trunking, but i reckon there's more money in commercial.

 

[atm84]

Commercial by far. I hate working in domestic with a passion and hate industrial just as much. Commercial is by far the superior. only downside is, someone is always on your case and you are always trying to fight your corner when someone tries to get you to do something that hasn't been priced for.

 

[Pete999]

Anywhere but in Mrs Jones house..AAAARRRGh

Oi what's wrong with Mrs Jones?
Pete Jones:53:

 

[telectrix]

mrs jones ( and the thread) has been dug up from 5 years ago. a bit smelly by now.

 

[shanky887614]

I worked in a boots call centre for a bit and real nice work there

 

[Slowhand]

I'm not fussy where I work as long as the money reflects the effort put in and as long as I'm paid on time I enjoy it all.

 

[Doomed]

Lets not revive any more old threads

 

[mayfair]

In any of the Bars on the Beach front in Benidorm in summer....Lots of distractions

 

[LeeH]

Pharmaceutical. It's clean, temperature controlled and most importantly have great canteen facilities.

 

[Adam W]

Apart from being 5 years old what is actually wrong with this thread?
Do you think the OP has got their answer now so any more opinions are now irrelevant?
Is nobody else allowed to see what kind of work other people prefer unless they start a new thread and get fresh opinions from scratch?

 

[glendeveron]

new build schools offices in the dockyard at the moment ona n aircraft carrier thats a bit **** lol

 

[LeeH]

Apart from being 5 years old what is actually wrong with this thread?
Do you think the OP has got their answer now so any more opinions are now irrelevant?
Is nobody else allowed to see what kind of work other people prefer unless they start a new thread and get fresh opinions from scratch?

Nothing but because it's 6 months old it's broken apparently. But when it was 5 months and 3 weeks old it was relevant.

Go figure....

 

[Adam W]

For what it's worth I prefer commercial work, same as I did 6 months or even 5 years ago.

 

[Adam W]

new build schools offices in the dockyard at the moment ona n aircraft carrier thats a bit **** lol

Is that in Rosyth? And is that the job where they've got the chippies putting up tray?

 

[glendeveron]

yeah in rosyth,joiners burners anything putting up basket etc,some subbys actually had a taxi driver who had ever been on a site doing it and paying one pound an hour less than a spark

 

[Knobhead]

I notice my question about this thread has been shunted out of the way with no explanation.

 

[Marvo]

This question, or was there another one? http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/chit-chat-off-topic/91169-ok-what-s-going.html#post952078

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Commercial. Pays better. No silly Part P. Usually free food or beer afterwards

 

[Adam W]

yeah in rosyth,joiners burners anything putting up basket etc,some subbys actually had a taxi driver who had ever been on a site doing it and paying one pound an hour less than a spark

It seems to me that's par for the course with marine work - on my last marine job there was a 20 year old yacht fitter/Electrical Trainee with no experience on the same money as sparks, the boss (total idiot, didn't have a scooby) had his next door neighbour (previously a windscreen fitter) working as a mate on £2/hr less than sparks.
Marine work seems to be all about doing what the boss says because he says so and he's the boss, and nothing to do with common sense, regs or knowing how to do your job.

 

[Knobhead]

This question, or was there another one? http://www.electriciansforums.co.uk/chit-chat-off-topic/91169-ok-what-s-going.html#post952078

That’s the one. The auto bumping is still happening.

There’s a two hour discrepancy at the moment. I suppose it’s a bit better than the original 5 years.

 

[flyingsausage]

yeah in rosyth,joiners burners anything putting up basket etc,some subbys actually had a taxi driver who had ever been on a site doing it and paying one pound an hour less than a spark[/QUOTE

The Navy will have nothing but trouble with those carriers,and I can see then going back into dry dock for a long time to fix everything after the first few sea trials.

 

[Engineer54]

Though i was brought up in the industrial sector, i voted ''commercial'' only because that's basically the area i've been working in for god knows how long now. But i'd be just as happy being in a cleanish industrial environment. Though i don't mind getting dirty, even today, i don't think i'd want to be working in say the steel industry, that Tony has spent most of his working life in...

Though it would be interesting to spend a couple of weeks to a couple of months to experience this sector of our industry....

 

[Knobhead]

I’ve only worked in what may be regarded as a clean environment twice. Hated every minute of it.

How strange, according to the section page I made this post 7 minutes ago.

 

[PEG]

Me? why,the happiest time i spent was the 6 weeks i did as a test pilot in a broom-stick factory. Lots of silly posts tonight,and i'm joining in...

 

[Steve1412]

Served my time doing a bit of everything...last 25 years tho industrial.....its took me 6 months to get around to changing my dodgy landing light switch...thats how much I dont like domestic ...ohh and under floors, lofts with fibreglass...and smelly houses!!!!!!