LAN and Telecom Cabling Path to getting an electrician's license in NJ

> Someone related to me mentioned that I should research the path to
> master
> electrician's license, instead of the RCDD.I have done a little
> research
> and it seems that my EE degree will take care of 3 years of the 5 years
> of
> experience that is required for the master electrician's license in NJ.
> How do I (at 46 years old) go about getting the additional two years of
> experience? Is there some training that will cause a master electrician
> to
> hire me so I can get some experience? How about getting the BICSI
> Commercial Installer's cert? Will that get me a job doing the proper
> work
> for the proper employer? How can I go about getting this work in NJ?
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> wooliewillie wrote:

>> Someone related to me mentioned that I should research the path to
>> master
>> electrician's license, instead of the RCDD.I have done a little
>> research
>> and it seems that my EE degree will take care of 3 years of the 5
>> years
>> of
>> experience that is required for the master electrician's license
>> in NJ.
>> How do I (at 46 years old) go about getting the additional two
>> years of
>> experience? Is there some training that will cause a master
>> electrician
>> to
>> hire me so I can get some experience? How about getting the BICSI
>> Commercial Installer's cert? Will that get me a job doing the
>> proper
>> work
>> for the proper employer? How can I go about getting this work in
>> NJ?
>> -------------------------------------

> Are you trying to get hired or open your own business? This would
> greatly
> affect your choice.
> As for the training, you may want to find your local IBEW Union and ask
> them about some training programs they might have. You'd have to get
> your
> Union card etc, but if that's what you want to do, then it's up to you.
> Note that if you become a Union guy, you will cost your potential
> employer
> great deal more money and headaches, so you thus effectively limit your
> potential employers to Union companies only.

> This seems like rather strange way of getting into cabling and
> networking
> design/consulting business. Whoever suggested you get master
> electrician
> designation, did they know all the details of your future plans? You
> are
> not going to go through that great deal of trouble to become just
> another
> electrician, are you?

> Well, I think his point was that there is alot more work for licensed
> independant electricans than there are for network cable
> pullers/network
> designers. I think that I mentioned this, but I want to to work
> independantly for small to mid size co's who want to modify their
> networks, both geographically and logically. Bottom line though, is I
> want
> to make enough money to be able to pay the mortgage.

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>>One other thing you may want to consider is that competition among
>>electrician is even more fierce, simply because there is more of them out
>>there.

> wooliewillie wrote:

>> Well, I think his point was that there is alot more work for
>> licensed
>> independant electricans than there are for network cable
>> pullers/network
>> designers. I think that I mentioned this, but I want to to work
>> independantly for small to mid size co's who want to modify their
>> networks, both geographically and logically. Bottom line though,
>> is I
>> want
>> to make enough money to be able to pay the mortgage.

>> -------------------------------------

> The question of how much work there is out there for any particular
> trade
> cannot be answered outside the context of the actual economic situation
> as
> well as the direction the economics is heading. When money is tight,
> people spend them on bare necessities, and electricity is one of them.
> Internet access as well as other networks would obviously be secondary.
> But if the economy is going to do any better any time soon, people will
> surely increase spending money on networks.

> One other thing you may want to consider is that competition among
> electrician is even more fierce, simply because there is more of them
> out
> there.