i could never deal with heights, residential is fine for me but industrial electricity scarred me for life when they literally wanted me like 30 feet up on this old elevator platform in a factory to reach the roof
Lol they wanted me up in the attick of federal courthouse building over hundred years old inside elevator shaft running emt only thing scares me is the asbestos and all the drilling and dust
I got two guys standing around on the roof that need rmc and 4" now! Don't tell me you can't handle it by yourself! Let's go let's go let's go! hahahaha
bad ass, fellow industrial electrician here keep it up bro i work in the oil field here in west texas the good old permian basin just submitted my paper work to take my exam to become a journeyman am super excited to take on more responsibility. I have done residential and commercial work as well but industrial is my cup of tea plus much more pay. good luck to you man and i hope you much success in this trade
@RandomUser_360 I'm not gonna say exactly but this is my third year making a little more than 100k, which is still on the low end where I live at, I know guys making 2 to 400k a year, getting into automation will help increase your income as well
My question would be where are the plans , this is a first time seeing a outfit that's more than likely union & I've yet to see any drawings. Is this normal for you to run conduit without seeing any drawings.
There can be a good amount of math involved, but it’s simple math. I personally struggle finding the measurements to bend your pipes. Going into 2nd yr apprenticeship, and so far thats the only thing i struggle with 😂👎
As the work of electricians are considered dangerous, especially the commercial and industrial ones, what is your advice for someone who wants to enter to this profession. Many Thanks!
enroll is step one. find a trade school near you, theyll help you file fasfa and admissions most likely gets paid commission. they’ll get you in there.
Best way is to become an IBEW apprentice inside wireman. Being union is hands down better than working non union. I'm a retired IBEW inside wireman, and recieve a very nice monthly pension.
I'm thinking of getting out of machining to do electrical. Turning 38 at the end of the year. If you don't mind me asking, what's the pay range down there in Fresno? I see ads all the time on indeed for 30-40/hr up here in northern Idaho. Also, I lived in Porterville till I was 12. Don't miss it one bit.
In order to make 30-40 down here you have to have experience and be a journeyman, also most likely gotta be union or find a big company. The locally owned companies won’t pay up to 40 unless you really got what you’re doing down and are certified
@@tumaz04 starting pay as electrician in the Fresno area is about 18 to 22 for a first year guy. Second year is 23 to 26. Keep going like that until you hit about your 4 0r 5th year. That's when you become journeymen. They make about 35 to 45. Journeymen who a formen can make around 50.
Im ganna go to school to become an electrician my whole life i worled in farm labor and fishing industries for intensive fast pase work in -40 degree wheather all the way in 117 degree wheather i rather do what you did all day then what i do now
That's what I'm saying pretty much straight run and no worries on flat roof out in open shit that's the work I want . Come work with me up in the attick in elevator shaft and let me know if your little roof job is still hard
You got that wrong I would much rather be on a roof all day in hot sun doing electrical work running emt .than inside cause I hate having to be exsposed to silica dust and everything else going on inside ..also more free outside and you are on a flat roof .
The first two minutes tell me this apprentice is working for a non union company. Not a terrible thing, but he wouldn't be hauling around a four wheel cart and pack - out stack of tools everyday. I'll continue watching and see what they have this apprentice doing on the job site.
@@stevenarechiga6967 --- please don't be offended if my comment sounded negative. I havebnothing against nonunion shops, I have my own non union company. I made that comment because I worked both union for 16 years in San Jose got my journeyman ticket from local 332. But I spent my first 6 years working non union. The differences are or can be huge and they both pose good and bad aspects as an employee. What made me comment was as you loading all your tools and your four wheel cart. If you were union you would t be doing that every morning and every night. You are only allowed to carry and supply your own hand tools from a list that all would fit into a standard lockable tool box no bigger than 18 inches. The company provides ALL other tools, drill motors, bits, blades all power tools, any wrenches larger than 12" channel locks, socket sets, etc... then your tool box gets locked up in the gang box on the job and is insured for theft if that van box gets broken into. If you are sent to another job site for the same company they send a driver to pick up your tool box and anyone else's who is going to the new job or another one and they deliver your tools to that jobsite so you just shoe up on the new site the next day and your tools are there waiting for you. Then, depending on the foreman and job, when you get on the new site, they might have you do a safety meeting or go over protocall and then most of the time they hand you a new hardhat if you don't have your own, leather gloves, cotton gloves, mag tips for screw guns, some will give you holesaws and arbors ½,¾ 1" and or varibit, earplugs, safety glasses, and then you get set up with a tool partner and you go to work. But by that time its coffee break so you take coffee and then you start work. I would be a union shop but I don't employ enough people to qualify. But, I try to emulate all the good aspects of both union and non union employer. I supply all tools except hand tools and sometimes I'll help out buy buying a tool if someone doesn't have something or if they have a crappy tool from mom's tool drawer in the kitchen. Lol It helps when you work for someone who takes the burden off you at work for the little shit that can add up and that you can't really afford without it being a hit on your paycheck. Your pay should be used for food housing and your family, not for buying a bunch of expensive tools and extension cords etc
@@stevenarechiga6967 ---- bro, I got in the electrical trade at 18 yrs old as a union material handler and after a year I became a driver for at that time was the biggest union shop west of the Rockies, Berg Electric in Los Angeles. I drove for a year and became warehouse foreman overseeing 3 drivers a tool repair shop two warehousemen and a runner. Pulling tools and material for all the jobs for drivers to deliver helped purchasing Dept., all the project managers requests, dealt with salesmen from all the big tool and material companies for 3 years all the time trying to get into the apprenticeship program but they weren't taking in many people back then (1985 -86) if you weren't legacy or female or other than white. So I left to work for a family shop that was union but dropped out about 10 years before and I spent almost four years in a service van as an apprentice doing everything. They were great teachers and family friends so I was treated well also. Then I took a break, after knee surgery for a couple years doing other things but ended up moving from LA to Silicon Valley in '95 during the dot com boom, worked for a shop that was ex union, about 25 guys and a couple other shops before that but the union wanted that company to become union again and they didn't wantit (the owners) so the union LU332 salted the shop and there were I believe about 10 or 11 of us journeyman who wanted to go union, so they couldn't legally force the shop to go Union without 51% of a vote so they took us two at a time every two weeks and gave us an initial test and then we had to show our work history and then they made us class A journeyman and put us to work full benefits etc... we had to do a 14 week final semester of the apprenticeship class for their journeyman upgrade test and pass that with a grade of B or better, two nights a week while working full-time and that was that. I spent the next 16 years in Silicon valley and San Francisco working for all the biggest companies and then decided I was tired of working for other people and I missed living in L.A. so instead of re certifying my state certificate I spent the extra $50 or whatever and I signed up to take my license test. Took a class prepping for the test and took it and blew through it with ease and that was 2012 and I've been working for myself doing very well ever since. I am looking for a very well rounded, good apprentice and or a very well rounded journeyman to work for me here in Los Angeles. I have residential and commercial jobs, mostly service work from average homes to apartment and condos and extremely high end homes and businesses and other really cool work with the film and tv studios. So, yes, I've spent more than half my life in the trade being taught by the best doing incredible work that few people get to do. I'm very fortunate. I need to hire someone that is worthy of being part of what I have worked very hard to accomplish and that won't ruin my name and reputation. It's very hard to find anyone right now.
@@13_13k I got into it at 21, I want to stay in for life and just continue to get better at it. It’s cool to hear about your career, I want to get into a big city to work but I’m kinda afraid of it because I’m here in the Central Valley and it’s nothing but farm towns and packing houses. I’m doing industrial and the moment and I like it, it’s real fun
@@stevenarechiga6967 yeah in canada we have to be harnessed up on lifts and if you're working close to an exposed edge. If the lift falls it could catapult you out.
@@stevenarechiga6967 100 percent have to have a harness on in NC don't matter if you get on a scaffold that is only 6 foot .have to have one on lift and roof are you will be sent home are fired that day ..and there is a reason people have lost there life behind that rule so don't think you can outsmart it accidents happen
Can u explain the difference between sound and inside wireman? I’m in high school 10th grade and I think I want to do this! I’m also a girl so any advice helps! Thank you
I’m not too sure but I believe sound would be more low voltage dealing with audio, fire alarm, and fiber optic cable. Inside wireman is more of dealing with higher voltage in lights, plugs, etc
I'm in LA IBEW Local 11... Inside Wireman tops $55 in hour but is tough work but it is 100% beatable even for a female (Are some females as an apprentice and General Forman who work hard and they are not strong and they are short 5 feet). Sound top pays around $38 hour pull wire and installer equipment..
Not everything revolves around the union, there is really grate companies that are none union. Plus Unions make hella hard for people to get in . That’s why I choose non unions. More liberties.
@@lascellesstoddart3907 what I have heard is that plumbing is tough on body, my dad was a plumber for about 15 years and switched to electrical. Electrical is a good trade to get into tbh
Depends on how scared of heights you are. Electricians spend most of the time at work on a ladder. It usually is no more than a six foot ladder which you are only 4 ft off the ground but we are often on 8ft, 10,ft, 12 ft,, and if you work commercial jobs you end up on scissor lifts or a boom lift and then you can be 20 ft up and as high as 60 ft or more. We spend a lot of time on rooftops from regular residential homes to high rise buildings. You also should be able to work in confined areas like under houses in attics, small spaces like elevator shafts, closets, inside cabinets and other fun uncomfortable places.
@@seawillows5268 --- I have a small fear of heights and can sometimes get uneasy when in a small space but I've been able to overcome most all fears just from being an electrician and having to do that work. I've worked on 55 story building, 35 stories, and others. On the helicopter pad on the roof of 35 stories building and when building those tall buildings the temporary elevators are attached to the outside walls structural steel and it's just a cage that hold six men and the operator. The temp elevators are limited to 30 floors high so it is necessary to attach a second elevator to the building to continue to the final height. So at floor 30 you get out of the first elevator and walk to the second elevator and ride it up to floors 31 and above. LOL
@@seawillows5268 --- not MI but I worked on movies as big or bigger like Once Upon A time In Hollywood, for one example. I've worked residential, commercial, industrial, laboratories, clean rooms, professional sports and college sports stadiums, malls, NASA, Lockheed, GE Nuclear Power Plant, Historic homes, cathedrals, Hotels, mansions, concert lighting,, I've done a lot of different things as an electrician.
