Hello!
I'm Tom! Thanks for any future advice in these forums and I hope my contributions will be of some help or amusement.
For the last 8 months I have been working as an assistant for an electrician in Australia. Up until this job I had no electrical experience whatsoever, only labouring, and carpentry work. The electrician I am working for has bad arthritis and so I started of just doing all the lifting and crawling. He knows I am really eager to learn and always explains procedures and theory as we are working. Being the only electrician in the 40k radius we are always super busy and have a large variety of jobs and problems.
I am now at the stage where he fully trusts me to complete many tasks; fully install new power points and install the breaker and wiring, ceiling fans, lights and switches, wiring large agriculture motors - 3 phase, installing boilers, ovens etc. Lots of our work is fault finding and i'm starting to get clued up on some faults and issues, although still a long way to go! I know that there is a variation in techniques compared to back home so some of the ways I've learned will need tweaking.
I am going to be returning home for half a year before returning to Australia. Whilst i'm home i'm hoping to do some study and begin getting some qualifications. I will be returning to Australia to the same job after the six months but longterm i will probably be back in the uk. With my initial searches i became trapped by the numerous companies offering the short courses. However after reading some reviews and the many threads on here, i'm not so sure that they are a good idea! I would do an apprenticeship in Australia but it's too expensive!
I am a little confused with the types of qualifications that can be attained, eal/city & guilds.
I would be grateful to hear your opinions on which qualifications would be most useful to me and if and how it's possible to get them in around 6 months without getting ripped off and more importantly mis-taught/under informed.
I'm Tom! Thanks for any future advice in these forums and I hope my contributions will be of some help or amusement.
For the last 8 months I have been working as an assistant for an electrician in Australia. Up until this job I had no electrical experience whatsoever, only labouring, and carpentry work. The electrician I am working for has bad arthritis and so I started of just doing all the lifting and crawling. He knows I am really eager to learn and always explains procedures and theory as we are working. Being the only electrician in the 40k radius we are always super busy and have a large variety of jobs and problems.
I am now at the stage where he fully trusts me to complete many tasks; fully install new power points and install the breaker and wiring, ceiling fans, lights and switches, wiring large agriculture motors - 3 phase, installing boilers, ovens etc. Lots of our work is fault finding and i'm starting to get clued up on some faults and issues, although still a long way to go! I know that there is a variation in techniques compared to back home so some of the ways I've learned will need tweaking.
I am going to be returning home for half a year before returning to Australia. Whilst i'm home i'm hoping to do some study and begin getting some qualifications. I will be returning to Australia to the same job after the six months but longterm i will probably be back in the uk. With my initial searches i became trapped by the numerous companies offering the short courses. However after reading some reviews and the many threads on here, i'm not so sure that they are a good idea! I would do an apprenticeship in Australia but it's too expensive!
I am a little confused with the types of qualifications that can be attained, eal/city & guilds.
I would be grateful to hear your opinions on which qualifications would be most useful to me and if and how it's possible to get them in around 6 months without getting ripped off and more importantly mis-taught/under informed.
They do online courses, click on their banner on the right.
