You lucky buggers

[sparkiemike]

nowadays it's 20% work 80% paperwork

[macc]

Never trust an electrician with no eyebrows.

[Victor Meldrew]

Spent most of my apprenticeship stripping copper.

[Rtis]

 "PYRO" proper stuff, You could almost play music with so many of them coming into a Dist board, The art in making it look presentable ! The largest "PYRO" I made off was 19 cores at RAF Honiton !  :a102: (This is becoming a Sparks reunion post !)

[Jo-JoB]

In my apprenticeship I spent many hours making off the ends for pyro (MICC) ''Keep ur compound warm Son''

[Rtis]

January 1963 ! Snow ! 2 pound 12 shillings, Churchill College Cambridge,sweeping away the snow to install the conduit with pot boxes between the Re-Bar . One minute in a warm classroom, next in the Real world !

[bikermalcolm]

Started my apprenticeship in 1961 @ one shilling and three old pence per hour.
We were installing rubber insulated cables in new council houses.

[sparkiemike]

Hey Rtis,

Its been 1.5 & 2.5 since the day I started my apprenticeship in 1975
3029 & 7029? wow that's really showing your age lol

Multi strand

[Crancrank]

Hey Rtis,

Its been 1.5 & 2.5 since the day I started my apprenticeship in 1975
3029 & 7029? wow that's really showing your age lol

[Rtis]

J.C. !! 204 pound a week !!! Pension ! Maybe I should have stayed in the Game longer ? Worked around the world for NUTS !!! (Rufty-Tufty-International-Spark) !!

[sparkiemike]

Every cloud has a silver lining

just open a letter from DWP to tell me as from 10 April my pension goes up to £205.94 per week

That's not to be sniffed at

Thank you very much DWP

[sparkiemike]

I leave the hard work to my son & daughter who are both NIC registered electricians

I have the estimates, invoicing & accounts to keep me busy

I do get called upon now & then when they have a particular problem wiring a heating system or a problem with a fire alarm

They wheel me out then put  me back in the box

Hey ho only months left

[Rtis]

Hey, sparkiemike,are you bending conduit today or is the job pass that stage and you are now pulling in some 3.029/ 7.029 ? Oops! That is now 1.5/ 2.5 !!

[tandas]

 :c023:shame it's getting colder here but snow is only on the mountains.  Thought someone should reply to your post Sparkiemike, hope you had a good working Monday.  Retirement comes soon enough and then you'll wonder how you ever fitted in work!
Eastbourne's a good place to be though better than up North where it's much colder most of the time.  Summer's just around the corner coming soon.

[sparkiemike]

Hi all

8:13,
Monday morning,
another work day,
tipping down with snow here in Eastbourne

O for retirement

Mike