knoppdude
Senior Member
- Location
- Sacramento,ca
Hi all. I was posed with a question from a message that got me thinking about how I perform electrical work. I went through an apprenticeship that stressed production over all, and if you were fast at install, you stayed employed. I pushed myself to keep production up, and tried to keep the quality of what I was doing at an adequate level. There were times when I had to go back and fix my work though. At this point, I have been trying to train myself to slow down for the sake of reducing mistakes. From planning the job from beginning to end, to using the correct material and methods to the best of my ability. This is one of the things this question has made me strive for. That and trying to make up for my ignorance of business, as well as all of the areas of the electrical trade that I don't know. If I expect to be paid well, I should be expected to install work, no matter how simple, with the goal of ever improving quality. The customer deserves nothing less. This may sound like BS, but I mean it, and would like any feed back on others experience with this balancing act of quality over quantity. I am simply going to focus on improving quality, and expect that the quantity will occur as a byproduct of no rework.