Posted by: neil in Untagged on
Jul 4, 2010
Just after I started teaching at East Los Angeles Occupational Ctr. a pair of women came marching into my room and said "we want to be electrical contractors. What do we need to do?"
After I explained that they would need at least four years of verifiable experience and then pass an exam on the electrical trade and basic business practices, including insurance and workers comp requirements, their faces fell.
"all of that just to wire houses?" one of them asked.
"Yup" I replied.
I then invited them to begin by taking my class, but they just turned around and walked out mumbling between themselves.
How hard is it be be an electrician?
To be a good one, pretty hard. It's a big subject with lots of specialties one could become expert in. And the better you are, the more money you are worth.
If you're going to be an electrician, become the best damn electrician you can be. Otherwise, in my opinion, you're wasteing your life!
One of the reasons people are unhappy in life is they never become good at something.
Commit to yourself to be the best you can be and in not many years you will be very good and it will be almost like a religious experience. It will feel very good!
See ya,
Neil
Posted by: neil in Untagged on
Jun 30, 2010
You've got 4 hours to answer 100 questions. That means you have 2.4 minutes per question. You've got to either know the answer to the question or you have to be able to look it up quickly.
Most of you are very good at what you do, but electrical construction and maintenance is a very broad subject. I never worked on a swimming pool when I was a working electrician, but I was able to pass the questions on pools and fountains because I knew how to use the Code book properly.
let me teach you. Call me
See Ya
Neil
