Becoming a residential or commercial electrician?
I have taken upon myself to ask around in technical schools and apprentice programs what they have to offer. I want to make sure that I am not wasting money/time.
Should I take SCIT (http://boxstr.com/files/4582409_zxvsg/05005370B901.gif) which they charge around $14,000 for their 7 month training or consider an apprentice program like the IBEW Local 441 which have their program http://www.ocett.org/news.php
Am I taking the correct steps into becoming a licensed electrician?
Please any experience electrician advice
This is only my opinion, but this is how I started as an electrician. I started off as a helper for a local contractor, and quickly worked my way up from residential, to commercial, to industrial. Then they paid for me to go to school and I became an industrial controls technician. I did all of this within two years.
**edit** Not saying you'll get the same results but I live in NC, I started as a helper for $7.25 per/hour. At the end of those two years I was making $16 per/hour.
Talk soon,
Joe Beaven
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Jesse F Says:
This is only my opinion, but this is how I started as an electrician. I started off as a helper for a local contractor, and quickly worked my way up from residential, to commercial, to industrial. Then they paid for me to go to school and I became an industrial controls technician. I did all of this within two years.
**edit** Not saying you'll get the same results but I live in NC, I started as a helper for $7.25 per/hour. At the end of those two years I was making $16 per/hour.
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Posted on January 20th, 2009 at 10:59 am
TheElectrician Says:
It will ultimately depend on whether or not you're planning on going into your own business, or just would like to secure a job which will provide you with good money & benefits and a pension plan.
The latter would require that you join a union apprenticeship program, and for the former, it would probably be best to get a position working as an electrician's helper and then become a Journerman through a local independant Electrical Contractor. Check out the site I link below, and you'll find tons of info on the electrical contractor / electrician subject.
Good Luck!
http://www.electrician-electricalcontractor.com/index.html
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http://www.electrician-electricalcontractor.com/index.html
Posted on January 20th, 2009 at 11:12 am