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If you had a choice, what would be your choice of work, as a favourite, to do?
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I think for me it would be motor control.
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I like just about anything.
One thing I don't like, however, is really old houses. Everytime you cut a hole for a box or a light, you get showered with 100 year old dust that sticks to everything.
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As with CTwireman, i hate old houses, over here we call it house bashing, because that is exactly what you do, bash it.
Me personally i will do just about anything within the industry,
But i hate houses !!!!!
just a personal thing that.
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right now i'll take anything that includes a temp of 10 F or over.....
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Bit cold where you are, at the moment,Sparky, feel sorry for you, I absolutely despise Winter, don't mind the heat, loathe the cold. But, one thing I must admit, our company, get all of the hard jobs(read=low profit, hard work), that any Electrician in their right mind would never even touch. We are a last resort company, we go in when another contractor(s), wimp out, because it's too difficult. I hate this aspect of my job, but then again, finding a solution and carrying it out is very fulfilling, especially when customers ask, How the Hell did you do that?. I love a challange, though, I think that we are all in that boat!.
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What sort of work is easiest to quote for? Would it be a new house or an addition to an existing installation?
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I agree with John about working in old houses (and England has a lot of very old houses!). Unfortunately, most of my work around here is like this, such as the one from this thread a few months ago. (Scroll down the thread for plenty of pics.) A neighbor recently completely stripped a place, new roof and trusses, new ceilings, the full works. At least that was almost like wiring a new home. Sparky, Glad it doesn't normally get down to only 10 degrees here! I was unhappy last winter when I had to go work in a big outbuilding early one morning and it was about 30. [This message has been edited by pauluk (edited 12-15-2002).]
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We have our fair share of old houses over here, built by some of the first English settlers, rewiring one of these is an Electrician's ultimate nightmare, wooden capping enclosing VIR/tinned copper wires, steel conduit enclosing same, its all there and normally its all looped together, in a wildly strange fashion. Hate these houses!.
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