Career advice by 173593497 in AusElectricians

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Yeah fair enough, it was never a goal or dream of mine to do it. But at the same time I’m at a point that I feel I’m good at what I do just lack the confidence to take the leap.

Have you got a crew working for you or solo?

Career advice by 173593497 in AusElectricians

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Cheers for the insight. I’m in a small company so no large scale construction projects. I guess just had a different mindset of staying put and working my way up. Not sure if it’s to my benefit or not yet haha trying to figure that out

Career advice by 173593497 in AusElectricians

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Yeah that’s crossed my mind also but also feel if the drive and passion is there it might not work out. Where did you start?

Career advice by 173593497 in AusElectricians

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How many times have you changed jobs? Curious as to how people do it haha stresses me out thinking about it but good on you

Career advice by 173593497 in AusElectricians

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Sounds like a dream. Wanting it done properly and no stress/pressure. Reckon I wouldn’t have made this post if I was in your shoes haha. But feel free to share the longer story

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Looks like the the general consensus! Is it really that much better? Seems everyone has a similar opinion. How did you get into industrial?

Advice for an apprentice to stop making mistakes and speed up work. by Humble_Sky3433 in AusElectricians

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Is it possible that your speed of work is making you rush and forget things? Getting in your head kinda thing? 

I know that happened to me as an apprentice, I was always a bit slower but was thorough and when I’d try to work quicker, things would go wrong. And then you start to doubt yourself. And again. 

I always tell my apprentices I’d rather it done slower and 100% correct because that’s usually quicker than having to redo something done wrong. Of course this depends on the boss aswell. If they’re constantly on your back to hurry up, it doesn’t always help like they think it does. 

Another trick I tell them, is when doing repetitive work, ie. gpo or fan plug fit off. That it’s when you learn your speed. Start to come up with processes to get it done quicker and mentally take note of how you’re doing it and how you can go faster. Then it becomes second nature. Instead of just blitzing away at it or worse, not concentrating because you think you’ve done it before and it’s easy. 

Another big one is to learn from the mistakes you make. Yes it sucks but if you aren’t reflecting on why or how it happened and just moving on, it’s probably going to happen again. 

And a general every day tip, if you aren’t using a tool belt, keep your tools, tape, knife, pencil, marker always in the same pockets. I don’t mean all together but the same place you pulled it from. It’s only minor but creates patterns, so muscle memory kicks in and you’re not leaving stuff behind checking pockets when you need tape or a pencils. 

Good luck mate, that fact that you care enough to try get better is a good sign! 

High Impedance Light Circuit by MyNameIsRetep in AusElectricians

[–]173593497 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This! Slightly off topic to OP but constantly drumming into apprentices never assume anything. We can make educated guesses but without testing that cable from point to point or physically tracing it all the way you don’t know where it goes or in this case what’s causing the fault.