Name: John
Age: 23
Occupation: Electrician Local 363
Education: HS, 2 yrs Electrical Engineering, 4yrs Trade school
Location: Queens new york
My car: 2000 civic hatch w/full 2000 ITR swap, 93 nitrous fed corolla
My girl: fuckin SLAMMIN hot
Salary: 88,000 yr.
Shoes: Nike, New Balance
Condoms: Large Trojans
Sports: Drag Racing, Billiards, Drinking
better start saving some of the 88,000 a year for your inevitable back and health problems you will get when you are older from working in the electrical trade.
fuck that shit.
:shuuder:: NEVER will i go back to manuel labor again. i HATED being an electrician.
i love what i do, wouldnt change it for the world!
Having to crawl under a elementray school bathroom (that was being renovated) in the middle of the ghetto, at 8am in the morning and being greeted by a shitload of fleas and two dead, decaying cats was NOT my idea of fun. the TYVEC suits were a fucking joke.
Working for the los angeles unified school district, almost 90% of all schools out there were built PRE 1950's....big deal? try ASBESTOS and LEAD.
drilling into brick that was layed in the 1900's, and laden with asbestos was not my idea of fun. respirators? ya, i think i read about those new fangled devices....too bad they only gave them to us AFTER they got sued in court.
more? ok.
Wire pull. yaaaaaaaaaay. Lets work outside in 100 degree heat in the middle of the summer time in the valley at a new elementary school pulling wire by hand, then come to find out your dumb fucking boss did not plan the job right and you cant connect to the transformer.
more? ok.
SLURRY POURS ....
standing on top of a 6 inch wide hose that has enough pressure in it to blow a hole in the side of a building trying to keep that fucker in the trench. i loved it when i got slurry all over my skin and when i got home there were nice little burn marks from the caustic shit inside.
sorry, im just ranting. seeing you post about being an electrician brought back old memories....
i hope you got it easier than i did. thats all im saying
On the other hand, out of ALL of the trades i worked with ....
Electricians BAR NONE are some of the coolest people out there imo
we had a blast nevertheless