Originally Posted by vaughant

TBH mate,domestic electrical work could be carried out by a trained monkey!!

I do generally agree with you about basic plumbing,its been made a lot more straightforward over the years but theres some serious stuff out there to get your head round with flow rates,lift pressures and fucking all sorts!!

I`d say with electrical stuff the sky`s the limit really on how much you can learn and once you get into the electronics side of it I`d say its a lot more difficult than plumbing then.Mind you,once you get talking about hydraulics some of the stuff they can do right now is just mindblowing,its getting to be a trade on its own.

I did a multiskilled apprenticeship so we touched on everything and although I was specialized in electrical,we did a lot of pneumatics/hydraulics and its very interesting,but also frustrating.

A good trade I forgot about earlier is refrigeration engineer,that way you can do both plumbing and electrical and theoretically never be out of work.