Congratulations Brother! It’s ok to be a little nervous that’s natural, Just enjoy the journey & have the right mindset and be a sponge.. You Got This!🙏🏽
I'm going to start late this month or early days of next month. I'm just afraid I won't understand the material and they'll fire me within the first weeks. Hopefully things go good.
@@ThePinkHardHat Congratulations on your new Journey Brother! Embrace not knowing & learn from it become a sponge, you’ll start to understand the material once you get around it everyday. Don’t be to hard on yourself & enjoy it! You Got This!👍🏽
hey man In the fall I'm going to college and I'm interested of being a electrician and i was wondering if I should do the Electrician Assistant (Certificate) or a Electrician Technology (Associate of Applied Science) sorry if this seems dumb I'm just new. thanks
What’s going on Bryy! I haven’t heard anything about the certification but I have heard about the electrical associate degree, I think the associate is 2 years & the certification is a few weeks. I don’t see anything wrong with both but I would still try to see if you could get an electrical job while in school if you can. They do hire with know experience so I think you’ll be fine. Just come with right mindset. You Got This..🙏🏽
I ended up going to trade school and went with electrical technology, although my local community college had it as a diploma program instead of an associates degree, some others in that same school system had the associates version. In my state, a certificate basically is equivalent to a few months work at most for interviews and doesn't count towards the license, while the diploma/degree is equivalent to 2 years for your journeyman's license. Some companies also have their own schools that they run, they are typically equivalent to the diploma/associates programs. Your state may vary from mine so look into your state's licensing program, but my experience with trade school was pretty positive. If you can afford it, the associates will likely have you doing a variety of things, some stuff i did in school was residential wiring, plc and robotics programming, motor controls and wiring, transformer wiring, and code classes, while the certificate will possibly be a cheaper but more focused way to get into the trade. Neither are guaranteed job finders though, it might be equivalent to x amount of years in the trade, but some companies will snub you because you hadn't been on a site before (some schools will take you to job sites though) or didn't have experience with their specific brand of PLCs or robots that they deal in if you're going for Industrial/controls technician stuff. My best advise is to network with current and retired electricians and do well in school, especially be willing to ask your teacher questions and be active in class discussions. If you show an interest and willingness to learn, you will likely be able to not only learn from them, but get good references for your future applications. As bad as it sounds, if you get to talking to an electrician at a company and they decide to vouch for you, you'll likely get priority status for interviews even when you've been previously snubbed. The more relevant references you can get, the better your application looks too. Also, keep your resume short and sweet, use blue font on some important parts to make them pop while the rest is black if youre doing it in word or google docs, and make a portfolio of things you've done. For example, if you've took the asvab in highschool and did well in the electrical or mechanical section, put that on your application and scan and print copies of it for your portfolio. If you've done woodwork, potentially mention it and have some pictures. If you go to trade school, take pictures and videos of your work and make sure its working well in them to prove what you've done. Even if it doesn't come up in the interview, its good to fall back on, and it will show that you're handy and willing to put in effort. Even something as simple as playing around with some Arduino or raspberry pi kits or replacing an outlet at your house will help in an interview. Id say bring at least 3 copies of both your portfolio and resume for small companies (think local business, maybe 50 workers total), 1 for you and 2 for interviewers, and at least 8 for anything larger. You might not use them even, they may print your resume out from your application, but its best to show preparedness. If you show up empty handed, theyre likely to think that youll show up to the job without tools or will overlook important details. Dress nice and talk about the future you want, not about the pay you want. Talk about wanting to learn skills, teach people in the future, provide for your family better in the future, make them proud, etc. You want to make them imagine you with them in 20 years instead of leaving them in 20 days for another company because of better pay. Obviously discuss pay and benefits, but leave that for later on, preferably hold off on pay until you get an offer, but ask about benefits in the interview. Ask them interesting questions too instead of just formated interview questions, because they hear them a dime a dozen. Frankly it took this and a little more to get an apprenticeship in my state. I hope this will help you out, and make sure to keep your head up even when you stumble along the way. Id get down when things didn't go my way in an interview, but it's better to keep going through it than giving up. Expect failure but strive for success. I wish you the best of luck man, you'll do just fine regardless though if you stick to it
@@TheApprenticeToJourneyman wow I appreciate all that feed back that actually made me feel a lot more confident about going the electrical rout. Thank you for your support 🙏
Thanks for the video man, I haven't seen many of these "first day" type videos before so its really helpful.
Thanks Brother Glad you enjoyed it!🙏🏽
First day next week im nervous I have 0 knowledge about the field. Thanks for sharing your videos bro I’ll catch up on them
Congratulations Brother! It’s ok to be a little nervous that’s natural, Just enjoy the journey & have the right mindset and be a sponge.. You Got This!🙏🏽
How has it been going? I start monday with the same experience
@@gandolfwhite7323 Hopefully it’s been going good for him!👍🏽
I'm going to start late this month or early days of next month. I'm just afraid I won't understand the material and they'll fire me within the first weeks. Hopefully things go good.
@@ThePinkHardHat Congratulations on your new Journey Brother! Embrace not knowing & learn from it become a sponge, you’ll start to understand the material once you get around it everyday. Don’t be to hard on yourself & enjoy it! You Got This!👍🏽
hey man In the fall I'm going to college and I'm interested of being a electrician and i was wondering if I should do the Electrician Assistant (Certificate) or a Electrician Technology (Associate of Applied Science) sorry if this seems dumb I'm just new. thanks
What’s going on Bryy! I haven’t heard anything about the certification but I have heard about the electrical associate degree, I think the associate is 2 years & the certification is a few weeks. I don’t see anything wrong with both but I would still try to see if you could get an electrical job while in school if you can. They do hire with know experience so I think you’ll be fine. Just come with right mindset. You Got This..🙏🏽
I ended up going to trade school and went with electrical technology, although my local community college had it as a diploma program instead of an associates degree, some others in that same school system had the associates version. In my state, a certificate basically is equivalent to a few months work at most for interviews and doesn't count towards the license, while the diploma/degree is equivalent to 2 years for your journeyman's license. Some companies also have their own schools that they run, they are typically equivalent to the diploma/associates programs.
Your state may vary from mine so look into your state's licensing program, but my experience with trade school was pretty positive. If you can afford it, the associates will likely have you doing a variety of things, some stuff i did in school was residential wiring, plc and robotics programming, motor controls and wiring, transformer wiring, and code classes, while the certificate will possibly be a cheaper but more focused way to get into the trade. Neither are guaranteed job finders though, it might be equivalent to x amount of years in the trade, but some companies will snub you because you hadn't been on a site before (some schools will take you to job sites though) or didn't have experience with their specific brand of PLCs or robots that they deal in if you're going for Industrial/controls technician stuff.
My best advise is to network with current and retired electricians and do well in school, especially be willing to ask your teacher questions and be active in class discussions. If you show an interest and willingness to learn, you will likely be able to not only learn from them, but get good references for your future applications. As bad as it sounds, if you get to talking to an electrician at a company and they decide to vouch for you, you'll likely get priority status for interviews even when you've been previously snubbed. The more relevant references you can get, the better your application looks too.
Also, keep your resume short and sweet, use blue font on some important parts to make them pop while the rest is black if youre doing it in word or google docs, and make a portfolio of things you've done. For example, if you've took the asvab in highschool and did well in the electrical or mechanical section, put that on your application and scan and print copies of it for your portfolio. If you've done woodwork, potentially mention it and have some pictures. If you go to trade school, take pictures and videos of your work and make sure its working well in them to prove what you've done. Even if it doesn't come up in the interview, its good to fall back on, and it will show that you're handy and willing to put in effort. Even something as simple as playing around with some Arduino or raspberry pi kits or replacing an outlet at your house will help in an interview.
Id say bring at least 3 copies of both your portfolio and resume for small companies (think local business, maybe 50 workers total), 1 for you and 2 for interviewers, and at least 8 for anything larger. You might not use them even, they may print your resume out from your application, but its best to show preparedness. If you show up empty handed, theyre likely to think that youll show up to the job without tools or will overlook important details.
Dress nice and talk about the future you want, not about the pay you want. Talk about wanting to learn skills, teach people in the future, provide for your family better in the future, make them proud, etc. You want to make them imagine you with them in 20 years instead of leaving them in 20 days for another company because of better pay. Obviously discuss pay and benefits, but leave that for later on, preferably hold off on pay until you get an offer, but ask about benefits in the interview. Ask them interesting questions too instead of just formated interview questions, because they hear them a dime a dozen.
Frankly it took this and a little more to get an apprenticeship in my state. I hope this will help you out, and make sure to keep your head up even when you stumble along the way. Id get down when things didn't go my way in an interview, but it's better to keep going through it than giving up. Expect failure but strive for success. I wish you the best of luck man, you'll do just fine regardless though if you stick to it
@@jaythus3181 Couldn’t have said it Better..🙏🏽
@@TheApprenticeToJourneyman wow I appreciate all that feed back that actually made me feel a lot more confident about going the electrical rout. Thank you for your support 🙏
@@Bryy_ No Problem Brother!🙏🏽