Another Wanting Career Advice

[shanky887614]

Thanks buddy, that's one of the books I've made my way through. Another one was something about domestic installers, and that went right back to basics and showed how ring circuits are done etc. There seems to be quite a step up from those basic books to say "Wiring regs explained" though.

it will be, dont bother with the regs yet.

after you have finished the level 2 get thr level 3 book.

by that time it wont be long till the next amendment toto bs7671 anyway

 

[hightower]

Just popping back in to give everyone (who's interested) an update. It's about 10 months since I first posted, and I haven't even started college yet (I missed out by about 6 weeks on last year's enrolment). However, I start college Tuesday coming, and I can't wait. It's been a long 10 months as all I've wanted to do is get myself stuck in, but the fact I haven't opted for some "2 week wonder" course over this affirms me wanting to do this the right way.

I've been working with my uncle a lot over the past 10 months, and have taken about 4 weeks off work so I can pick up work with him on the domestic side of things. My experience and confidence has grown massively, and the onset of college next week is going to boost it to another level.

Now, I've waited a long time to start college, and I don't want to get ahead of myself, but if these last 10 months have taught me anything it's that I'm not happy in my current job and that I think I want to go down the domestic side of things (at least to start). This next question is going to be a matter of opinion more than anything I guess, but when can I realistically start making the transition across? I would like to build up my domestic electrical work while I'm still working full-time, however, I'll obviously not be able to do notifiable work as I'll not have the qualifications to join a body like Elecsa. Do people recommend doing my L2 & L3 before even trying to pick up work domestically, or can I start and pick up simple jobs (faceplate/light changes etc) while I'm learning which would allow me to start and build a customer base. Would I be able to pick up notifiable work (box changes etc) before I'm fully qualified, ie while I'm on with my L3 in a years time?). Would be great to start and build up a customer base, but can't see too many wanting a bit easy work like faceplates changing.