Advice for getting started - Electrician Video Transcripts
Video 1 Transcript
As an electrician, there's some things that you would want to know before you go in. A couple things. It's a good thing for if you weren't wanting to go to college or something, you can make money as you're working the job as an apprentice. You'll do school and work at the same time. There is a bit of physical demand in electrical work, but it's a good balance between thinking and working. So in the electrical work, you'll do a lot of math and you'll have to figure things out, know things about electricity. But there is also a lot of just working with your hands and putting stuff together and building stuff. So if that fits for you, then that might be an option.
Video 2 Transcript
Pretty easy actually. I wish I knew about more technical colleges, but Bridgeland is the one that I go to. All I did was I went in, took a test, like a reading comprehension math test, like the basics of school, and then I was accepted. The cool thing about trade school is unlike universities where you have to pay 4,000 plus for tuition, the class only costs, I think Bridgeland was $350, $350. Other schools are more expensive or cheaper, I just know Bridgeland. And honestly, if you want to go into the field, the electrical field, you're never going to have a hard time finding a job. It's a huge high demand. Yeah, I just say look for a trade school and then get on Indeed or something and look for electrical jobs.
Video 3 Transcript
So there's three degrees of the electrical electrician license. There's the apprentice, the journeyman, and the master. At least here in Utah, as an apprentice you can expect to get paid 15 an hour. That license allows you to work on any electrical work under the supervision of a journeyman. You'd have to go to school for four years, working under an electrical company for four years with that apprenticeship license, and that will allow you to take the journeyman test. And once you pass a journeyman test, you can work on any kind of residential, commercial, or industrial electrical work, and you can expect to get paid again here in Utah around 30 to 35 dollars an hour. And if you hold your journeyman for five years, then you're eligible to take the master's test, which allows you to have your own electrical business or take over another.
