On 3 Jan 2005 19:34:22 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) strung together this:

Yes, if you read the trade press, lots of electricians are now
dropping out of the industry, particularly if they were near
retirement age anyway. Apparently, almost none have signed up
for any of the Part P schemes. Expect a massive shortage of
electricians to undertake domestic work, even on the black
market. There was already a shortage before all this happened.

I'm nowhere near retirement age though, I'm 26. I just don't want to
be associated with an industry that's fallen to pieces. I do data,
telecoms and security now, which I always preferred but stuck to
mainly doing electrical work as that was what I wanted to be from an
early age and it's what I am qualified to do. Unfortunately I'm now
not 'competent'.

industrial work is far more lucrative

And, you still have to be registered for that don't you?

No. It is the responsibility of any company using your services
to be satisfied that you are competent. Some do this by requiring
NICEIC only (more fool them), others use other criteria. At a
former employer, after some poor work from NICEIC contractors,
the requirements were changed to require qualified electricians
only on-site (C&G certificates had to be presented on first
arriving on site by each person). That actually ruled out all the
NICEIC contractors we had been using, and most work was then done
by one-man-bands, from whom we got a much better quality of work.

Ah, well I might carry on doing industrial work then, although there
are still plenty of rougharse electricians work on industrial
installations so I can't see the point. It's even more of a shambles
than I thought.
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SJW
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