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Technically could you do the electrician school, skip the apprenticeship and just work on your house? How important is it to learning the typical things you'd s

• notch898a 4y ago
  When I was a fresh EE I was hired as a backdoor to hiring an electrician because an EE is cheaper. Everything about it was hilariously easy and we were wiring up some insane shit, think 300 amp 1kV motors that will kill people if it goes wrong. Theres very little that goes beyond your 101 level linear circuits, some gauge tables, and youtube videos for how to crimp and mount the breakers, ground faults, etc. It will make more sense when you realize the trades were basically designed to suppress the 'out-group' from joining the union or being hired to keep up the union workers wages. That's why hiring an EE is so much cheaper than hiring an electrician. That is, the dirty secret is: the trades have a vested interest in having 'shortage.'
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• dreamcompiler 4y ago
  It's not hard. I'm an EE and I've wired two houses after studying the code on my own. I hired an electrician to check and sign off on my work, which was much cheaper than hiring him to do everything. The work I did was more code-compliant than work I've seen in other houses done by so-called "licensed" electricians. Possibly because I took the code literally and assumed compliance was non-optional.
• AnonMessiah 4y ago
  You need between 4,000 - 10,000 (depending on the state you are licensing in) hours of on the job experience as an apprentice working under a licensed journeyman to get your journeyman license
  • euroderf 4y ago
    So, in the range of two to five years ?