Dreamzeedream
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With no experience at all?
Do we have any electrician's on the coli
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Dreamzeedream
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That's good idea. So he did the work for free an got paid once the house was sold?If/when you become an electrician, a good way to make money is to get with house flippers and do the work for them for money on the back end. A friend of mine will clear 125k easily this year because he got plugged in and was doing all the wiring etc. upfront for money when the houses sold. Easy way to stay busy if you can build connections and if you are able to work for “free” upfront with money coming later
Yep.
Basically does the work up front and collects a percentage of the money on the back end. It's smart because he isn't charging the renovators in their budget so they are happy, and he gets in on the upside. It's good to show your work first and then get the money if you are good and confident, and there are more people who can pay later once the house is sold than people who want to pay during renovation
My boy is an electrician in a union in nyc. Dude pulls 80/hr. 100+/hr with overtime. No college degree, got in in an apprenticeship and they paid for the trade school.
Easiest way in is to know someone already in the union.
Only thing is, you're not working a daily job, there can be stretches where there is no job to do. Dude went months without a job, so they picketed the union, like holding signs n shyt..
Apprenticeship is $17/hour but they make u do the hard shyt, like climbing thru insulation to run wire.
Easiest way in is to know someone already in the union.
Only thing is, you're not working a daily job, there can be stretches where there is no job to do. Dude went months without a job, so they picketed the union, like holding signs n shyt..
Apprenticeship is $17/hour but they make u do the hard shyt, like climbing thru insulation to run wire.
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
Specialize in outside work. Linemen work year round and the money you can make after storms is ridiculous.
Dreamzeedream
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That's the only thing. I need a daily job. 40hrs a week plus overtime
Correct. You learn on the job and go to school at the same time. You might have classes twice a week. Pay isn’t the greatest during your apprenticeship but probably more than doubles once you’re done. They also have great benefits.
i know the ibew in toronto tries to make sure that once you get laid off at one company the union tries to find you work immediately with another company under the union. They dont do that in NY? or maybe there really wasn't any work at all.
Dreamzeedream
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I'm about to look into it right now. I just Google apprenticeship right?
Yeah. I don’t know where you live at but in nyc the office is in Queens
Google IBEW and where you live
Art Barr
INVADING SOHH CHAMPION
I'm a fully qualified electrician. But I did my time in Australia and work in Australia.
The money here is more than what they pay electricians in the U.S.. When I came out my time I was earning 90k Aussie dollars a year (about 70k US dollars).
The most I've earnt in a financial year is 120k when I was working away in an Australian gold mine in my 2nd year out of my time.
Now I'm just building my bread so I can start my own company here... my friend started his own 3 years ago and earns about 180k a year now with 2 guys under him.
In the U.S they pay a little less out of your time than here in Aus because I looked at comin back to the U.S.
I'm trying to buy a house over there soon and recolate back home so I wanna know what they pay over there nowadays cos the last time a nikka checked was 5years ago and it had a nikka shook at the peanuts they was paying nikkas
I wanna say it is in the teen range per hour area.
It has been like a decade plus since I was in construction school and an engineer tech I slash Inspector.
Art Barr
Dreamzeedream
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JP_614
Superstar
Yeap I work out here in Hawaii for the electric company IBEW 1260 but I know every state is different quick google search and you can find all the information for the union in your area
Jim Cornette
The Cult of Meat with Extra Cheese...
so can someone from here give me a rough estimate of what a residential/commercial/industrial electrician takes home in a week over there??
Google gives all sorts of wild figures it's hard to gauge what's facts n what's doo doo
Google gives all sorts of wild figures it's hard to gauge what's facts n what's doo doo
Jim Cornette
The Cult of Meat with Extra Cheese...
52 I guess is pretty good for a young fella.
I'm 10years in the game now so I wanna be making that 90k now. dunno how easy that is in the states tho, seems like you needa know someone to get on a union site ( like how it is here in Australia smh.. and white folk aint lookin out for a nikka like me).
I'm currently making 80k aussie dollars which ain't bad but I'm thinking of starting my own company and make 6figures again
electrical technicians? don't know many of those.. only dudes I know who are electrical techs are guys who did their apprenticeship in the navy or army. I think it's not as good a qualification as an electrician or instrument electrician.