The truth about the electrical apprenticeship

hey everybody it's spencer with hoosier sparky and today we're going to be talking about if and why you should become an electrical apprentice i was on a service call today and i had a guy stop me and he was talking to me and asking questions about you know what i did and if i enjoyed it and also like where to begin and it made me want to make this video so today i'm just going to be covering a couple things i really enjoy being an electrician so i'm going to explain the reasons why i like it and some of the main benefits of becoming an electrician and becoming an apprentice so to speak at first i'm going to cover some of those things in detail and then you guys let me know in the comments if you have any questions and if you guys already are an electrician or an apprentice comment and leave some of the main reasons that you enjoy being an electrician so let's get started we will start with the main reason that i like to be an electrician and that is to solve a puzzle or to build a puzzle one of the two there are two main groups of electricians there is the construction side and the service side i personally am in the service side but i've also done the construction side and both of them are wonderful options on the construction side you either get to build a brand new building it's super satisfying to see a building get put together from scratch like from from dirt to a new building this is probably the most common type of electrician it's definitely the easiest thing to get into on on the service side it's very satisfying to solve a puzzle which is finding out what's wrong and diagnosing that and getting to troubleshoot also small projects so you get to see a lot quicker progress but that is something that is super super fun i am a service electrician and it is great and i was actually lucky enough to start in the service program as an apprentice so for me i do like to move around a lot more i don't like to be in one place so long so service is perfect for me i get to move around i get to do troubleshooting and small projects so i see a lot of progress quickly hopefully so that part to me is great it is much harder to get in on the service side really depends on your company especially union companies are very hard to get in on the service side versus non-union contractors a lot of smaller contractors have very small service departments and a lot larger companies have very large service departments so it really just depends on what your company does for your service department another huge reason that i think becoming an electrical apprentice is a great option for anybody is that it isn't for everybody but it is for anybody it is not hard to start your career as an electrician people are really just looking for people who will show up and will work that's it that's all you really need to start out you don't have to have any experience whatsoever you can start straight out of high school you can start straight out of a different career at any point in time in your life young or old it's a great option if you guys are finding any of this information valuable go ahead and give this video a thumbs up and if you want more information about this go ahead and subscribe we have some videos coming up about how to become an apprentice and also some basic electrical skills that we're going to walk through here soon also if you're going through a union program then you end up going to school for a block period of time and you do not work but they pay for your school so it's like two to four weeks or something like that a semester i believe and they pay for it i know a lot of the larger non-union contractors will actually send their apprentices through an apprenticeship program and pay for it all the way through believe it's one night a week for most programs that you'll you'll go after you work your 40 either way union or non-union you end up getting classroom learning and you get field experience so those are two huge things that you do not get anywhere else unless you go through an apprenticeship program that's my mom hi mom another great reason to do this is that if if you don't know what you want to do especially if you don't know what you want to do there is no debt that you incur when you do this i know when you go to college you have to end up paying a lot of money you will end up debt-free at the end of this so that means that if you're not sure right now and it's something you try and you don't like you don't end up with some crazy cost and if it's something that you follow through with then you end up being debt free and making great money not only making great money at the end but making money all the way through so that if you don't go through then you've never stopped making money and if you do go through the apprenticeship program all the way through then you've never had to stop making money so you're able to support yourself no matter what situation you're in whether you are fresh out of high school and you live with your parents or if you're an adult and you have three kids you're able to support them all the way through your apprenticeship program while getting your education this makes this such a viable option for anybody and it is not a high cost of entry field at all but there is a great there's like a there's a very high ceiling finally there's money in it there is a good way to make a good living and it's a valuable skill so you always have a job you can always rely on being an electrician to carry you through and to make money and even if you move if you go from state to state you end up making money wherever you go because it's a valuable skill and it transfers anywhere all right so we'll just do a quick recap of the four main points and the reasons why i think it's such a valuable option to become an electrical apprentice for one it's fun you either get to build something or you get to solve a problem the second point is that you get experience and learning at the same time and that leads into the third point of it not putting you in a huge amount of debt which is so so huge in today's world and then finally it's a solid job so you can have experience learning you can make good money and you can have fun while doing it so these are just some of the reasons why i think that it is so great of an opportunity you can walk in day one with no experience and have the opportunity to create something for yourself in a lifelong career thank you guys for watching i appreciate it go ahead and subscribe if you haven't already like this video if it's brought any value to you at all and i will see you guys on the next one

Channel: American Electrician

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Length: 6min 57sec (417 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021