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What made your mind up,(or possessed you)to be an Electrician,after you left school?. Was it the need of a job or what? Please feel free to comment on this one.
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I ask myself that continually? CW
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coin toss... truckin' lost, so here i am.....
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eight years in the marine corps. went through a marriage, and a divorce. decided to get out and try my "luck" as a civilian. first job, walked into a union shop, applied for a job as a helper. interviewer asked what experience i had. i told him i had 8 years learning how to kill people, and wanted to expand my talents. was offered a chance to enroll in the IBEW electrical apprenticeship program offered at that time. jumped on it. 31 years later, here i am. not sure if its an "improvement", though. :S
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Wanted to learn a skil that would allow me to work for myself.
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I had no Idea I would be an electrician. I'm not sure what happened.........Where am I? LOL I love it though!! Actually, there is one thing I remember leaning me this way. when i was young,I read a hot rod magazine, there was a centerfold of a kick ass 69 nova SS , the driver was sitting in it. The article said he was a self employed electrician. He had this grin on his face I cannot describe. I thought to myself "must be nice" .......It is nice!! *grins* Other than that its all theoretical.
I did not get as think so badly as you shocked I did.
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I'm one of those kids who started playing with batteries, bulbs, and bits of wire at the age of around 5, and it just snowballed from there....
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My Mother used to beat me with a percolator cord... (I deserved every bit of it)... I guess I became an electrician in an effort to "control the wire"... Actually, my music career didn't exactly take-off, and I didn't want to starve to death!
-Virgil Residential/Commercial Inspector 5 Star Inspections Member IAEI
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Ask myself this question constantly, especially when I have to crawl under some dirty confined floor space or loft filled with insulation & mouse s***. Sad part is I really wanted to do this when I left school, now I wish I had stuck in & went to uni! I do get some job satisfaction when customers are grateful for a job well done, like the man who came round to pay his bill on Friday evening, complete with cheque & a boxed bottle of Glenfiddich 12 year old. (My favourite!)
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Age 2½—table lamp cord—had the two plug pins straddled around my thumb during insertion. It stung and burned more than anything at that age.
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