On Oct 9, 1:40 pm, Owain wrote:
Staffbull wrote:
Out of curiosity, how do you go about becoming an electrician? I take
it you would have to be employed by someone to get vocational training
and that you couldn't just become self employed like a plumber for
example.Whyever not?

IMHO it's much easier to become an electrician as the manual skills are
much less, at least for small domestic work; industrial with MI, SWA and
conduit/trunking takes more practice to do a neat job.

You can get the textbook qualifications (16th Edition, Inspection and
Test) quite quickly if you can find a college (or the IEE) doing them as
full-time courses; most colleges do them on evening or day release over
a year fpr youngsters at the "this is how you strip a wire" stage.


And _if_ you can find a college that will take someone who is not
already employed in the trade. It's a definite catch-22, at least round
here.

MBQ