As a residential electrician in Vancouver B.C, you meet a cross-section of society. You are welcomed into people’s homes and you take a certain satisfaction in fixing their appliances, rewiring their sockets, troubleshooting their lighting systems etc. The vast majority of my experiences, I’m happy to say, have been positive.
Whereas an industrial electrician focuses on servicing the commercial and business world, residential electricians ply their trade in domestic settings; condos, apartments, townhouses, suburban homes. A residential electrician in Vancouver (just as any place else) comes in two varieties. There are freelancers and others like me who work for a company. Most of the work involves installation and repair. Replacing transformers, fixing circuit-boards, that kind of thing. Like any line of work, it suits certain personalities. I think you have to have a certain aptitude for mechanical things.
The most pressurizing situation I find can be when you are trying to locate and identify a fault. Remember, you are in somebody’s living space and time is money. You want to solve the problem as efficiently as possible and move on. So there’s definitely a benefit in having a mathematical brain. You need to be a good problem solver. Of course there’s a lot of technical knowledge, most of which you pick up as an apprentice; things like electrical codes and health & safety procedures. Electricity is the most dangerous force in your home. It demands respect. After a few years as an electrician in Vancouver, you find you have volts and watts on the brain. You don’t think the same as everybody else. You think like an electrician. You approach every problem as though alternating current were at the bottom of it.
Whereas an industrial electrician focuses on servicing the commercial and business world, residential electricians ply their trade in domestic settings; condos, apartments, townhouses, suburban homes. A residential electrician in Vancouver (just as any place else) comes in two varieties. There are freelancers and others like me who work for a company. Most of the work involves installation and repair. Replacing transformers, fixing circuit-boards, that kind of thing. Like any line of work, it suits certain personalities. I think you have to have a certain aptitude for mechanical things.
The most pressurizing situation I find can be when you are trying to locate and identify a fault. Remember, you are in somebody’s living space and time is money. You want to solve the problem as efficiently as possible and move on. So there’s definitely a benefit in having a mathematical brain. You need to be a good problem solver. Of course there’s a lot of technical knowledge, most of which you pick up as an apprentice; things like electrical codes and health & safety procedures. Electricity is the most dangerous force in your home. It demands respect. After a few years as an electrician in Vancouver, you find you have volts and watts on the brain. You don’t think the same as everybody else. You think like an electrician. You approach every problem as though alternating current were at the bottom of it.
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