What do you like most

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I guess I'm about the same as most of y'all.

Piping, big pulls, controls, bucket trucks and the like.

I REALLY like to solve problems. Like on a remodel - when things hit a brick wall. :cool:

Or, when I can think of a better way to do something, so it's more what the customer wants, or looks better, or even cheaper. :cool:

Also, troubleshooting machinery. With motors, hydraulics, and pneumatics. Even refrigeration & A/C. :cool:
 
I have to go with the trouble shooting thing.I pride myself in regards to this.An installer can install but an electrician can figure out what is the problem :)
 
My favorite thing to do is hacking. ;)

Seriously though, I like commercial service and small project work because of the variety. One day you're running pipe, the next day you're on a trouble call, the next day you're running MC, and the next day you're on a 16 hour shutdown with Iwire and you fall asleep in the electric room on a desk......
 
Pros:

- I've always liked electronics and hands on type work as a kid and so when my dad suggested I try electrical as a job I jumped right on it.

- I also enjoy trouble shooting..like a game to me.

- Older houses that need small work done are always great...i enjoy the older construction style...they built some great houses back then.


Cons:

- Electrical work is OK but I don't like working in houses without heat/AC and getting small payments isn't all that fun...oh and working on anything higher than 4 foot up in the air isn't for me unless its a nice stabile surface
 
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j_erickson said:
I like putting in receptacles and switches and fixing my guys mistakes.:grin:
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I had two guys that thought I liked that so I fired them.

to the people who like controls, do you do any PLC programming and if so do you like that. I love doing that but don't have the time to go after that work just yet I do some on a small scale and also love trouble shooting control work It really helps when you can understal ladder logic and plug in to the PLC and see whats happening. What type PLC's do you like best?
 
What do I like about it? Well one thing is for sure... it is a VERY dark world without us. When you can take someones world down with the flick of a switch, people seem to be nice to you for some odd reason.
 
Programming was my passion for years when they first came out. In the early seventies I worked at Goddard Space Flight Center, everthing was relay logic. A guy made me an offer I couldn't refuse to come to work for them doing upgrades of all machinery to PLC. On of the most exciting times in my carreer. The biggest job I did was for a milk / ice cream factory, program was thick as a city phone book.
bikeindy said:
I had two guys that thought I liked that so I fired them.

to the people who like controls, do you do any PLC programming and if so do you like that. I love doing that but don't have the time to go after that work just yet I do some on a small scale and also love trouble shooting control work It really helps when you can understal ladder logic and plug in to the PLC and see whats happening. What type PLC's do you like best?
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Ah... even thou I grew up in the city, I am a country boy at heart, and for me, there is absolutely nothing better on earth, when it comes to electrical work, than a freshly framed house in the woods on a sorta cool breezy spring or fall morning, a new nail eater bit and a milwaukee drill and a very loud radio.
It's like being a kid with your toy trucks.
Next to that would be trouble shooting and finding /fixing other peoples mistakes... I like the challenge...
I sorta like dressing out a panel box, there something meditative and relaxing about being in a 3 foot space for several hours working at top speed.

I hate setting recessed lights especially the cheap ones that cut your hands.

Also constructing meter closet. Moving in lighting and radio and taking a bare room and setting switches and troughs and meter stacks and when you finish it has beauty to it.


But the absolute worst thing is being in an attic, in the summer, when it's 100+ degrees and there's the pumpkin sized hornets nest that you dont see until your almost laying in it.

You sorta get used to dead rat and possum skeltons in the walls and ceilings of old houses.

Greatest fulfillments are fixing jobs that are so screwed up that the owners think they cant be fixed and when I finish the new house in the woods and I can stand back and it's all lit up and I think thats beautiful.

Lunch... nothing happens without lunch. The guy I work for... more like with now, says he can tell when it is getting to be 12ish because I start getting cranky and evil even if I am working away... around lunch time. Fortunately most of the people I work with on a ongoing basis like to eat.
 
I have always admired the control guys in this field.

Guys who can do relay logic and PLC's are really the cream of the crop in my book.

I actually like to do lighting design work (recess cans etc) and you can see the difference right away with a well lit job.

If you go to Vegas look at some of the great indoor lighting at places like the Venetian.

Great thread by the way!

Jim
 
bikeindy said:
I had two guys that thought I liked that so I fired them.

to the people who like controls, do you do any PLC programming and if so do you like that. I love doing that but don't have the time to go after that work just yet I do some on a small scale and also love trouble shooting control work It really helps when you can understal ladder logic and plug in to the PLC and see whats happening. What type PLC's do you like best?
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Yeah, I've had to weed through guys like that too. I don't have any problem employees right now. I was just trying to throw a little humor in the thread.
 
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