20 Reasons Why I Love Being an Electrician

hey what's going on you guys today i'm going to give you 20 reasons why i love being an electrician all right well hey what is going on you guys uh if you're new to my channel thank you so much for checking this out and if you want to learn how to become an electrician well then you're in the right place uh basically this channel is dedicated to being a resource for you if you want to learn how to become an electrician and so i'm going to throw a link up in the description for a playlist of videos that i have that will basically walk you through the whole application process from applying to taking your aptitude test to interviewing all that and secondly i have to thank you guys so much because i just hit a massive goal that i set for this channel which is hitting 1 000 subscribers you guys last month just one month ago i had finally hit 500 subscribers and it took over six months to reach that goal and then one month from then now uh we just hit 500 more subscribers and hit a thousand so thank you so much this channel is growing way faster than i ever thought so i really appreciate you guys so with my last video being about the three things that i don't like about being an electrician naturally the next video is about 20 things that i love about being an electrician so let's get into this now the first reason why i love being an electrician is of course going to be because of the pay you guys electricians make fantastic money i have a whole video talking about this but for the sake of this video just know that depending on where you live you can easily make over a hundred thousand dollars as an electrician we just found out that here in portland oregon with ibew local 48 starting in january of 2021 we're going to be making over 50 an hour so this is a career where you can support a family and live pretty comfortably reason number two is because of the benefits now this one's going to definitely depend on what company you work for if you're a non-union guy there are non-union companies that have fantastic benefits but it's pretty much guaranteed that as a union guy with ibew that you will be guaranteed fantastic benefits now that's actually one of the biggest reasons why i joined this trade was because i wanted to have a job or a career where i could support my family and have great benefits in case of medical emergencies or whatever life throws at us here in ibw local 48 on top of the roughly hundred thousand dollars per year that we make we also make an additional fifty thousand dollars uh per year in benefit pay so great benefits reason number three is that this is a career you guys this isn't just another job not something that you're going to decide to do for two three four years of your life and then move on to something else just like when you decide to become a doctor or an engineer when you decide to become an electrician you're basically committing to doing that for the rest of your life you know you're going to be able to hone in your skills and get progressively better at your trade and i think that's great because this is something that you can and most likely will do for the rest of your work life the fourth reason why i love being an electrician is the fact that there's no student debt you guys you can be potentially working a six-figure job or more and not have any student loans to pay back generally when you decide to become an electrician you're going to go through an apprenticeship and if you do this with the ibew then that is usually going to be free of charge to you you know that's not to say that if you were to go the college route that that is a bad choice by any means there's fantastic careers out there that absolutely you know make it necessary to go to college but i just think that it's really cool that there's options like this becoming an electrician where you can be making six figures or more and not have any student debt reason number five is actually because of the schooling you do get a formal education as an electrician and it's one of the very necessary parts of the apprenticeship now as i said on top of the apprenticeship classes generally being free especially if you go with ibew everything that you learn in school is going to directly apply to your career as an electrician which i think is pretty cool you know you're not going to be taking a bunch of classes that in no way shape or form will apply to the career that you'll be doing for the rest of your life everything that you learn is going to be very necessary and good for you to know and understand so that's pretty cool reason number six why i love being an electrician is the fact that we are always learning you guys this career is so multifaceted and whether you do this for 5 10 20 30 even 40 years of your life you are never going to learn or see everything that there is to see as an electrician one thing that i've learned is the more that i know the more i know i don't know because there's just so much out there as technology is evolving you know and depending on the kind of work you're doing if you're a sustaining electrician at a hospital like me whether you're working in a factory doing motor controls or doing low voltage work you know it's just it's so multifaceted and that's awesome because it keeps things interesting it's fun learning and it really just never gets old reason number seven is that as an electrician you're going to be learning some very practical and valuable skills now this one is pretty self-explanatory you guys it's it's just really cool to know a trade you know you're going to be able to do your own electrical work you're going to be able to test things and figure things out you're going to be able to do all that for the rest of your life electrical work is a very valuable and practical skill to know reason number eight is that this is challenging all throughout your career as an electrician you're going to be presented with many different scenarios where it's going to be up to you to diagnose the problem and figure out what's going on i absolutely love that i love solving problems i love making things work and i don't know about you guys but i just really enjoy a good challenge reason number nine why i love being an electrician is the fact that you get to be really creative so a lot of these problems and challenges that i talked about you have to troubleshoot and figure out require all sorts of creativity on your end you know it's going to take a lot of out of the box thinking to figure out how to make things work and one of the things that i really love is the fact that there's not just one way to do things there's a million different ways and i i've been in so many situations where either myself or a co-worker finally figured out how to make something work and you just have this moment of celebration where you're high-fiving each other and it's just it's really cool the creativity aspect is a ton of fun and i really enjoy that reason number 10 really goes with the last two but that is the feeling of accomplishment that you get as an electrician it feels great to solve problems it feels great to meet deadlines and i don't care how long you've been an electrician it feels great and it is always magic when the lights turn on for the first time reason number 11 is that it is just really fun to be an electrician i feel like at this point i shouldn't really have to elaborate on why that is because i think i've already kind of expanded on that quite a bit but it is a ton of fun and it's a really good feeling to know that i have a career that i can do for the rest of my life and i don't think i'm ever going to get bored with it reason number 12 why i love being an electrician is the fact that days just fly by and of course this goes with the fact that it is fun but since you're also doing so much and you have deadlines and there's just goals that you set for yourself that you try to accomplish by the end of the day well days just kind of naturally fly by you know i've had jobs in retail where i'm just kind of standing around all day looking at the clock waiting to finally go home but oftentimes as an electrician you know i'm i'm like man i only have a couple of hours left in the day i need to hurry up and get this done and for that reason days just fly by reason number 13 is that generally as an electrician your work day is going to be starting early in the morning which means that you're going to be getting home early in the afternoon now me having a family a wife with two kids i really value all the time that i get to spend with them and for that reason i really enjoy being able to get off work earlier in the afternoon speaking of having more time with my family reason number 14 is that as an electrician you are generally going to have holidays off and you're going to be able to request time off pretty easily for the most part now for me before i became an electrician i was a store manager at a t a retail job and that meant that if i wanted to find a way to get time off i had to find somebody to cover my shift and as an electrician generally there's no shifts that you have to cover when you want to take time off and for that reason as long as there's no deadlines coming up you're able to request time off pretty easily and most job sites and trades in general observe holidays reason number 15 why i love being an electrician is the fact that the work that we do is contributing to society okay as an electrician you're going to be doing all sorts of different things like building hospitals building houses building data centers maybe even restoring power to a community that lost it due to a natural disaster the work that we do is very essential we are quite literally building america and it feels good knowing that when i go to bed at night i actually helped make the world a better place rather than having a job where i'm maybe convincing somebody to buy something that they can't afford or don't need reason number 16 is that as an electrician you get to work on a lot of really cool things and see a lot of really cool places that most members of society will never have the chance to see so for example i'm a sustaining electrician at a hospital and i've seen behind the scenes of that whole hospital you know places that most people will never get the opportunity to see you get security clearance into some really interesting places with some really major companies and you know i've even been in situations where i had to sign a form stating that i would not take a picture of certain equipment or even talk about the job site that i was on for that matter so you get to see a lot of really cool things and it just makes things interesting and it makes it fun reason number 17 why i love being an electrician is that i love working with my hands and actually getting to see the physical results of the hard work that i put in that day so when i was in retail at the end of the day all i had to show for all the hard work that i put in was numbers on a spreadsheet and let me just tell you it is so much more satisfying to actually work with your hands and build something and they get to stand back at the end of the day and just think to yourself wow you know i helped make that work reason number 18 is the job security that is inherent to being an electrician now yes i know that with any of the trades there's always the risk of getting laid off but what i mean when i say job security is the fact that there's always new technology coming out technology is always evolving and changing and electricity isn't going away anytime soon and for all these new things that are coming out they're going to need electricians to make them work and install them reason number 19 is that when it comes to the trades becoming an electrician is going to be one of the best and most respected trades that you can get into now hear me out when i say this i mean absolutely no disrespect whatsoever to the other trades but the fact is that electricians and plumbers are generally seen kind of at the top of the the tradesmen list because it's a four to five year apprenticeship that we have to go through you know it's dangerous there's a ton of training and for that reason they are generally going to be paid the most and there's just there's a lot of people that want to become electricians there's a lot of respect for them and it's it's just a great trade to be in reason number 20 why i love being an electrician is for the simple fact that i've always thought that electricity is just really cool it's fun working with it it's fun learning how to manipulate it in different ways and make it do different things that you need it to it's just cool i like electricity all right you guys well that is it thank you so much for sticking around until the end of this video if you found this to be useful and informational inspirational whatever if you guys want to become an electrician make sure to 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Length: 13min 13sec (793 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 21 2020