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AJ
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What do you do on a daily basis as an electrician?
I'm a sophomore in high school. I have no experience but I want to be an electrician after high school.
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Dominic Wragg
Electrician
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Morrisville, North Carolina
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There are generally 3 paths that can be taken to be an electrician.
1. Commercial Electrician: Traveling between constructions sites, learning material, tools, and skills. Most work is building from the ground up. Wiring pulling terminating connections, conduit bending, rough-ins, mounting equipment are all basic skills you will be doing regularly. You provide and transport your tools.
2. Industrial: Fixed location, job duties are determined by your job title and location. Industrial Electrician are generally post construction so it focuses on preventive/ predictive maintenance troubleshooting, and minor installation of equipment. Limited amounts of assembly mostly in support of an established industry. Company generally provides tools at job location.
3. Residential Electrician: main office is central but day to day travel to fulfill service calls or new construction for housing. New construction overlaps with commercial in that you are building and wiring from the ground up but focuses on. Housing electrician systems, while commercial focuses on commercial buildings and systems. Residential can be a combination of both the prior but in a housing setting. You will install heaters, lights, fans, outlets, etc as well as troubleshoot problems when they stop working. Tools can be provide by company or oneself and are traveling with you to each lo nation for the service calls.
1. Commercial Electrician: Traveling between constructions sites, learning material, tools, and skills. Most work is building from the ground up. Wiring pulling terminating connections, conduit bending, rough-ins, mounting equipment are all basic skills you will be doing regularly. You provide and transport your tools.
2. Industrial: Fixed location, job duties are determined by your job title and location. Industrial Electrician are generally post construction so it focuses on preventive/ predictive maintenance troubleshooting, and minor installation of equipment. Limited amounts of assembly mostly in support of an established industry. Company generally provides tools at job location.
3. Residential Electrician: main office is central but day to day travel to fulfill service calls or new construction for housing. New construction overlaps with commercial in that you are building and wiring from the ground up but focuses on. Housing electrician systems, while commercial focuses on commercial buildings and systems. Residential can be a combination of both the prior but in a housing setting. You will install heaters, lights, fans, outlets, etc as well as troubleshoot problems when they stop working. Tools can be provide by company or oneself and are traveling with you to each lo nation for the service calls.
Oleg Kushnerov
Construction Project Manager
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Chicago, Illinois
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Oleg’s Answer
there are levels to the electrical profession.
Call local electricians and ask if they have an opening. Many service providers work on weekends, and you can tag along.
In Chicago, you would start with bending conduits and being a helper to pull wires through them.
You would work on residential and commercial properties, completing the installation of lights and outlets.
Going a step higher.
Trade school and licensing will allow you to work on high-voltage lines, such as factories or power plants.
If your goal is to be a high-paying electrician, you need to add "engineer" to the title.
You can help design building plans, be a local inspector or work for global company and travel the world.
But also you could teach the younger generation who will have your same questions in 30 years.
Call local electricians and ask if they have an opening. Many service providers work on weekends, and you can tag along.
In Chicago, you would start with bending conduits and being a helper to pull wires through them.
You would work on residential and commercial properties, completing the installation of lights and outlets.
Going a step higher.
Trade school and licensing will allow you to work on high-voltage lines, such as factories or power plants.
If your goal is to be a high-paying electrician, you need to add "engineer" to the title.
You can help design building plans, be a local inspector or work for global company and travel the world.
But also you could teach the younger generation who will have your same questions in 30 years.
Brian Dreher
Security and Access Coordinator
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New Britain, Connecticut
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Brian’s Answer
There are many different directions you can go in electrical. I’ve worked my way to a position as Access and Security Coordinator for a University. My typical day will include patching software on the camera servers upgrading firmware on devices. Addressing offline devices (cameras, locks, control boards) usually resetting them then replacing them as needed. I also participate in the planning and management phases of renovation and new construction projects. Laying out the new systems on our pre bid documentation and managing the contractors installing the new equipment. I will also manage some of the network side of the systems creating and maintaining DHCP reservations and troubleshooting at the switch level. This is a great trade and it becomes what you make of it.