Every job has aspects I don't like, but electrical work is better than most. I've met some good people in electrical work. Here's a list of what I don't like.
Pulling heavy wire through long runs of conduit - you'll strain at the limit of your strength, feeling a lot like an ox pulling a plow.
Underground work - working on your knees all day in small boxes underground.
Dusty, hot ceilings - you'll catch old diseases that settled in the dust years ago. Crawling around is physically demanding and you'll sneeze from the dust - sometimes getting a cold with runny nose that lasts for days.
Working on your knees in floors with dead baby rats in the box and in raceways, slimy grunge squeegeed into the box from mopping floors for years.
People - construction, including electrical, invites criminals and other undesirables. You'd swear some of them were hired straight out of prison. You'll work with bullies. You'll work with lazy people who will stand there and let you do all the work, then the boss will come and ask why it's going so slow. That will drive you nuts. You'll work with petty, jealous people. Other trades, such as sheetrock, plumbers, painters will get in your way, damage your work and delay you.
Cigarette smokers will fill your air space with smoke, especially when there's no ventilation. Attics, new construction, no matter what, they will make sure you smell their smoke. They're the worst.
People will borrow your tools, such as your DeWalt hammer drill, Sawzall, tape measure and everything else, but will not buy their own tools. Journeymen are especially guilty about not bringing their own tools to the job. The people who borrow your tools will never bring enough to do their own work, will never pay for your tools when they damage them and will never buy any of the tools they need for their own work. Not only that, but all of their tools will be worn out pieces of junk you wouldn't want to use.
Working with a dummy who decides to do things the hard way is a real pain.
Working with people who do shoddy work with no pride of workmanship makes you wish you were somewhere else. People who expect you to violate code to save money are all over the place.
Not getting paid to drive from one job to another seems unfair. Sometimes you have to go to more than one job in a day.
Other than these things, electrical isn't so bad.
If it was just a matter of doing electrical work, it would be great!
