How To Get A Good Electrician

I was recently accepted into the electrician course at my local college in nova scotia. I was wondering if anyone could give me details on the trade, like is it difficult work? is the work steady or slow in canada? what can i expect? any details at all would help. thank you

if your doing construction,pulling cables to splicing wires………….good pay.secure career………

Hartford Courant

A Soldier's Letter Started It All Hartford Courant, United States - 16 Jan 2009 Bill tried to return to his old job, where he'd been training to become an electrician, but that fell through, and he became a soda and beer distributor. …

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Even when winter winds whip around him, electrician Jeff Vaughn doesn’t cover his fingers.
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Electrician is a better career than Engineering, true or false?
I am about to start my four year engineering program at my local university. I can’t help but wonder that maybe I should become an electrician instead, here’s why:

As globalization continues and trained engineers from overseas come to North America, the demand for engineers will probably go down. The demand for electricians seems to have a much more promising future.

The outsourcing of engineering also seems more and more likely.
An electrician cannot be outsourced.

An engineering degree is more expensive than electrician certification (I think). An engineering degree is also much harder.

An engineer has to worry about being laid off later in life when his payscale has increased and the company is tempted to hire new cheaper engineers. Electricians on the other hand seem to be able to open their own businesses and do quite well.

I don’t see many engineers with their own businesses. So job security seems pretty unreliable.

Lastly, the salary difference between engineers and electricians seems to be getting smaller and smaller, so where is the incentive to do engineering?
Am I wrong or am I right?

im gonna say false assuming you are equaly good at both jobs an engineer will make a lot more money over the course of his life, there is less danger involved in being an engineer i think(cross a 220 wire and you may wind up dead,or fall off a roof pole or other high place etc etc) plus with an engineering degree and the diploma you already have the education to switch fields with little additional training or school required

Times Online

Electrician Toby Booth uses tricks of trade to put the spark back … Times Online, UK - 1 Jan 2009 … reached a situation he could not have envisaged when he was playing his rugby with Folkestone, then Blackheath, while working as an electrician. …

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Question: I want to know when the lights on the Bayfront Peninsula Park pier will be fixed. There are four lights that have been burned out for a year now and have not been fixed.
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Liam is Irish. I do not know where he lives in the USA. Since he is an electrician, thought maybe someone might know him through their local or something. Would like to get to know him as he seemed like a real nice person. Thanks for your help.

Katie!?!?! It's me Liam! I know I don't look the same, but I had some surgery done. It was great meeting you at IL Beach St. Park, sorry I didn't give you my #, but I was in a hurry.
j/k
I'm from IL too. Maybe an ad in the Chicago Reader? "Missed connections" If he's a union electrician, you could try IBEW, etc…
Good luck finding him!

Drug addict tampered with meter Hartlepool Today, UK - 9 Jan 2009 A British Gas electrician confirmed police suspicions and estimated £245 worth of energy had been taken since October, 2007, and that the meter had suffered …

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A member of the Portage Area Joint Recreation Commission is questioning last week’s replacement of a longtime colleague. Borough Council replaced Dave Squillario on the commission with Polly Vandzura, wife of Councilman Raymond Vandzura.
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With two children a wife and the only full-time job holder, to eventually become an electrician in a smallish town (grand rapids, MI) is schooling my only way?
I can't afford to cut back on my regular job to go to school to become educated before hand. Should I even attempt looking into a local union or applying at a local company?
If there is a way that I can side-step more schooling what can I do?
I still have $7k worth of student loans from almost 10 years ago that I need to pay off yet! Help!

You can check out http://www.ibew.com

and apply for apprenticeship with your local chapter or community college which offers apprenticeship, that's the only real way to become a journeyman electrician because getting a degree has almost no benefit(except if you want to get into management) in a trade field.
Only problem with apprenticeship is the low pay starting out, depending on your state, but after the 4 years it will be worth it.

Your local power company may also hire you on their apprentice program, which may be more beneficial and offer more stability.

Also remember to look at the job market. A small town may not have much need for electricians therefore you may have to relocate to where construction is going on, so you can find steady work.
An alternate job to electrician would be a linesman, which has more pay but higher risks and more travel required.