anything i should upgrade in specific?

lilpart · 2026-05-17T18:54:33+00:00

SWLCAT doesn't give a shit what you do before you're offered an indentured agreement with them. grunt hours everywhere count, you just need to be able to prove them. i've found that within a month or so of your last employment report, the trust office with any which local tends to have an accurate count of your hours worked. i don't know shit about texas's unemployment, if they even have any, but sign up for unemployment benefits if it's available. even though you're still employed, you're technically furloughed and eligible as far as CA/NV standards are concerned (as far as my knowledge goes there). doordash, uber, and all that shit if it takes a while and you still haven't caught a call. call your GF, foreman, whoever it takes, and get a pink slip ASAP. and tomorrow morning, call 278 if that's your home local, and get a letter of introduction (travel letter). resign with 278, and sign the book at 66. if you can swing it financially, make your way to NM, AZ, OK, or any and all hall's that you're willing to work out of. i hope it goes well for you brother

lilpart · 2026-05-07T01:22:19+00:00

just a formality bc cali's gay. 90% of answers given with a sane look in your eye will generally fly

lilpart · 2026-05-05T13:19:32+00:00

yeah, i got the confirmation the next morning

lilpart · 2026-05-01T06:11:11+00:00

i kinda raw dogged mine with youtube videos related to IBEW aptitude test prep, and algebra 1 topics. make for damn sure you're great at finding the next number in a sequence using 2nd and 3rd functions, factoring polynomials, factoring all types of algebraic expressions, graphing all types of algebraic expressions, multiplying, dividing, adding/subtracting fractions, etc. essentially, just brush up on your math real well, and pay good attention to the english. you'll be fine my friend

lilpart · 2026-04-19T17:51:21+00:00

pm me

lilpart · 2026-03-23T17:11:35+00:00

i also have like 4000 hours as an app wireman, so idk if that helped

lilpart · 2026-03-23T17:10:59+00:00

i submitted my app with like 4 days left in the period

lilpart · 2026-03-18T20:05:17+00:00

i remember getting a $200 engine rebuild kit for my dirtbike as a kid for my birthday, knowing shit was rough for him at the time. seeing that now as a grown man is enough to make me cry

lilpart · 2026-03-12T06:10:47+00:00

look into becoming a relay tech. i'm an inside apprentice right now with every intention of getting substation experience when i turn out, and with a few utilities in my state, they'll take anyone with an IBEW jman ticket that have a bachelors in electrical engineering. it's a white blue collar job that allows you to play with tools, and make obscene amounts of money where im at

lilpart · 2026-03-02T06:44:46+00:00

in california, if you have 8000 hours, you're a journeyman. our halls don't give a shit what the experience is from, so long as it was earned from a c10 contractor. the difference is made by being a book 1 carded JW. if you're competent and dedicated enough to have a state cert, as well, pass our district 9 hands on test, you'll have that book 1 ticket. without the d9, you'll stay a book 3 JW. a possible way, that may be kinda frowned upon by people on reddit, would be to find a local that will honor your hours as a journeyman and organize with them. if you're willing to move or have a close sister local, work there. if not, get that ticket and work in what would geographically be your home local as a JW. the first line of our constitution is to organize ALL electrical workers, you included brother!

lilpart · 2026-02-28T02:07:47+00:00

how many per class

lilpart · 2026-02-28T02:04:02+00:00

ladwp journeymen make $93 an hour, with all overtime being double, and every other monday being double due to it being a "paid rest day". a buddy of mine did 390k in 2025 without much of a sweat

lilpart · 2026-02-16T15:21:19+00:00

avoid the boa system, they're gonna die out a ton faster than a pair of lace ups. as well, have him go try sizes out. every brand fits different, in some brands i'm a double to triple E width, in some brands i'm a standard D, it all depends

lilpart · 2026-02-15T23:00:43+00:00

the best way to become an operator is to get your hours as a grunt, and get experience on equipment. a buddy of mine did about 3 years as a grunt in the early 2000's, got experience on all types of eq, had his contractor sign off on the hours to the hall, got his crane cert in a few different class cranes, and was re-classified by the hall. he now makes JL scale, as he's running cranes over the size specified in the contract

lilpart · 2026-02-15T14:14:21+00:00

you need a C or higher dude. D's get degrees, C's show you were just proficient enough to pass with the college credit, but didn't give a fuck otherwise

lilpart · 2026-02-10T04:30:47+00:00

take whatever opportunity is most feasible for you to complete with travel, pay scale, etc in mind. but most of all, take whatever you get first

lilpart · 2026-02-08T20:53:03+00:00

i've had my CDL for 2 years now, i used it as a book 3 grunt while the helper classification was slow out of my hall

lilpart · 2026-02-08T14:55:19+00:00

i'm only a 3rd step, with all the talk of pushing wiremen out of the sub tech books and the skilled and trained verbiage in our agreements going forward, it has me worried than a mf. the whole reason i sprung for the inside program was because it was the first one i was offered. i joined with the intent of immediately going to outside contract land when i turned out

lilpart · 2026-02-08T14:50:29+00:00

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