ECN Forum Forums General Topics of the Trade General Discussion Area How to become a journeyman electrician?

A university EE friend (OK I may had had a bit of a fling with him in junior year) of mine decided he wanted to go into the electrical trade after he graduated from our regular 4 yr college program - he was the most practically minded student in my class. His new employer soon learned that he was FAR more valuable to him doing designs and plans (as opposed to ACTUALLY doing the installation) so he spent his year in "training" doing work the employer would have had to pay an outside EE to do. As I recall he did spend time on job sites but usually in a problem solving capacity where a particular installation was not doing what it was supposed to be doing. He got his electrician accreditation with the "year of training". Incidentally he failed his PE several times and I think has given up on that now.