I am now offically an apprentice

[Kruzen]

Install any of these yet? :)

http://ultimateavmag.com/surroundsoundpreampprocessors/505anthem/

[318isbmw]

Congrats, that's awesome that you got the apprenticeship setup.

[f u z z]

no one cares, emo kid.

[Kate525i]

Congrats Josh!

[trashcop 80s 80s]

You'll be making more than most of my friends with bachelors degrees at $24 an hour, and like ten thousand more a year than an elementary teacher friend that just started.

[KenC]

Install any of these yet? :)

http://ultimateavmag.com/surroundsou...ors/505anthem/

No HDMI switching? Weaksauce.

[Jand3rson]

No HDMI switching? Weaksauce.

We actually stay away from HDMI whenever possible.

[DarkWing6]

YOU'RE FIRED!





I'm sorry. I had to.

[Mike325]

Congrats Josh.

So some info for us kids, how would one go into getting into this awsome buisness?

[Jon325i]

YOU'RE FIRED!





I'm sorry. I had to.

Damn....you beat me to posting the Trump pic :-P

Congrats to you Josh...well done :applauds:

Jon

[mtechnik]

All the best.

[JGood]

You'll be making more than most of my friends with bachelors degrees at $24 an hour, and like ten thousand more a year than an elementary teacher friend that just started.

What the hell are your friends doing? I graduated less then a year ago with a Bachelors and am making that, and I took the first job I came across.

Josh, you said you are doing networking? That surprises me, even in-home cabling is still pretty major stuff, I'm surprised one company does that, electrical, theater, etc... What exactly do you guys do, put in a main control box for everything or something? Is anyone using cat6?

[PeaveyBassist]

Congratulations Joshua!

Will

[Jscotty]

I can tell you first hand that the demand is very high for this kind of stuff because I was an alarm technician for 13 years before the company decided to start doing "structured wiring" in 1999 which was relatively new at the time. The technology itself wasn't new but the whole concept and incorporating everything together was new. By the time I had been doing it for a couple of years, I had so much side work that I ended up quitting and starting my own business.

I guess the main thing was that I was especially skilled at doing retro work and there are so many people out there who are building their houses before they even thought about having their home wired up for home theater, whole house stereo, cat 5 wiring, etc. It was funny how my supervisor and some of the other employees would be perplexed at how I managed to hide wiring in places that nobody thought I could hide it. And granted these guys were newbies with less than a couple of years on the job so being able to run a quad-cable from the basement to the attic in a 2-story house without destroying the walls in the processs was a marvelous feat in their eyes.

But overall its a good field to be in and I made a bunch of money doing it. I have been out of the industry for a while but I still get calls from people needing me.

[Jscotty]

Is anyone using cat6?

Cat 6 is a PITA work with for what you actually get. 5e is what most people are still using today because it can do just about anything that Cat 6 can do by today's standards.