I am now offically an apprentice

[Jand3rson]

Just got my apprentice card in the mail today, I was accepted into the LE-A License apprenticeship program (Limited Energy - A License), at the top of the list of applicants I applied with. The license allows me to run and terminate all low-voltage wiring, including wiring for security systems. The cool thing is I've already had a job with my company for 6 months, and most applicants that get accepted then have to find a job.

So now I get another raise after just getting one a month ago, and they're mandatory from this point on. My wage is a percentage of the journeyman wage and it goes up with each percentage of the training I complete. Journeyman wage is $23.99 per hour right now, and the one I work with makes almost $27 per hour. And even cooler than that is that all of the training is online, which means I can do more than the scheduled pace of work and get done with my apprenticeship even sooner.

I'm really excited, this is a major step forward in a great career that I can make really good money in, and I'm very interested in the field. Home theater and home automation is a HUGE industry, and there's certainly no shortage of super rich people with may too much money to blow to keep us in business!

[PiercedE30]

congrats...

[BDSax]

awesome man, i know i was stoked when i passed my electrician journeyman exam, only took 2 times.

[Silence*]

Congrats!

[h0lmes]

Josh that is fucking awesome. Congrats to you man and I wish you the best.

[Ray Smoodiver]

Wiring houses is cool shit. Well done mate.

[Jand3rson]

Wiring houses is cool shit. Well done mate.

Wiring houses actually kind of fucking blows. Well, not all of them. The ones I have to crawl under for 3 days, those suck. Installing all the badass shit we wire FOR is cool shit. :D

[Ray Smoodiver]

Yea that's what I meant :D

[BDSax]

so do you do prefab houses?

ill be roughing an addition tomorrow, im not a fan of rough wiring but it pays the bills.

[Jand3rson]

We do almost all new construction and occasionally do retros. We're commited to about 50 more houses on a resort about 20 miles north of here, they get full surround in the master bedroom and great room, and speakers (in wall/ceiling) in the ceilings of every other room with volume control keypads. The great room gets a multimedia system with almost all Denon components and Samsung 50" DLP TV's, with all the speakers by Sonance. A lot of the houses we do get similar stuff to that, but we also do several multi-million dollar houses that get in-wall touch panels, full lighting control and automation, in-home private theaters, and huge racks of AV components. We just finished a 13,000 sq. ft. home with a proposal including components, wiring and labor that ended up almost over $600,000.

Here's a few links to some of the products we sell:

AMX: http://www.amx.com/products/

Sonance: http://www.sonance.com/products

RTI: http://www.rticorp.com/products/default.html

Ultralink: http://www.ultralinkcables.com/#/products/cs1/

Denon: http://usa.denon.com/Products.asp

[BDSax]

wow, thats really cool. i think thats the business to be in right now. i keep telling my dad that but he is just old school.

[Jand3rson]

wow, thats really cool. i think thats the business to be in right now. i keep telling my dad that but he is just old school.

Yeah, it's rad. I forgot, we also do (for all those houses and most others), phone, networking, cable, satellite and security.

[e30sd]

cool. money is cool

[PiercedE30]

When my car is done it looks like I am going back to doing my Journeyman work, god I loved doing it. I was an Ironworker, ya know, that guys standing up on top of 6 inch wide steel beams installing new beams and doing construction. You get such a rush from doing it, god I loved it so much.....lol sorry to go o/t.

[Jean]

Congrats!