jaylectricity
Senior Member
- Location
- Massachusetts
- Occupation
- licensed journeyman electrician
I don't know if I'm "meant to be an electrician", I think there are other things I'd like to do, but not sure I'm good enough at them to make a career out of them. Of course my childhood dream of professional baseball player kind of died when I missed a couple of summers of little league for varying reasons.
That being said, I've always liked to tinker with things. When I was five I took apart my alarm clock radio because I wanted to see how it worked. When I was an adult I spent some time with my father who had been working with an electrician. I did a couple of jobs with them, but the work wasn't steady so I ended up getting another job.
Fast forward a few years I moved up to MA, worked with my uncle laying floors. We did a tile bathroom floor at an electrician's house and I mentioned that I had a little bit of experience. He had a job coming up that would require some help. He called me a couple weeks later and I was off to the races.
He said I was a pretty fast learner and before you know it he was leaving me to rough one job while he went to other jobs. (Totally illegal in this state, btw). He did a couple other things to fast track me to my license and I went from there.
Before working with my dad I don't even think I knew what an electrician was. But my favorite part of the work is when you install something for a homeowner and their faces light up (pun intended) when they see their new light, their new hot tub, whatever. The money is better than most of the other trades and it comes relatively easy to me.
Also most electricians I've met are kind of weird. So I fit right in.
That being said, I've always liked to tinker with things. When I was five I took apart my alarm clock radio because I wanted to see how it worked. When I was an adult I spent some time with my father who had been working with an electrician. I did a couple of jobs with them, but the work wasn't steady so I ended up getting another job.
Fast forward a few years I moved up to MA, worked with my uncle laying floors. We did a tile bathroom floor at an electrician's house and I mentioned that I had a little bit of experience. He had a job coming up that would require some help. He called me a couple weeks later and I was off to the races.
He said I was a pretty fast learner and before you know it he was leaving me to rough one job while he went to other jobs. (Totally illegal in this state, btw). He did a couple other things to fast track me to my license and I went from there.
Before working with my dad I don't even think I knew what an electrician was. But my favorite part of the work is when you install something for a homeowner and their faces light up (pun intended) when they see their new light, their new hot tub, whatever. The money is better than most of the other trades and it comes relatively easy to me.
Also most electricians I've met are kind of weird. So I fit right in.
