![]() Since we were clueless, we were spending quite a bit more time than that for 6 days a week. I will say that if you’re doing this as your job, you’ll probably only be doing it 8 to 10 hours a day. My wife makes me exercise and I'm fairly active but I'm not doing those movements, not pulling the wires and hammering and doing things upside down. Don't think about that statement too much. Now, it was probably more physically demanding for me because 1) I'm probably a little bit older than your average young electrician. It is a physically demanding thing, you're up pulling wires and using weird muscles in your back that you didn't even know existed and, as I mentioned, you're swinging hammers. I would wake up in the morning and all my knuckles were swollen and I was stinking tired. And even though I haven’t worked on it for several days now, my hands are still swollen. I should have known that, it seems self-evident, but here I am closer to 40 years old than I am 30 years old. The second thing that I learned is that it’s physically demanding. I swung a hammer a lot over the last couple of weeks and I was just surprised at how little I was actually working with wiring when I was doing it.Ģ) Electrician work is very physically demanding. Of course, we used more sledgehammers and shovels on the farm but whatever. ![]() And seeing as how I grew up on a farm, that's quite a bit. I was surprised that in the last 2-3 weeks, I have swung a hammer probably more than the rest of my entire life combined. You’re figuring out where you're going to put the boxes, and you’re hammering in the boxes, and then you figure out you’re going to run the wire, so you're drilling holes and cutting pieces of wood to block the outlets and the switches. It was almost more construction than electrical wiring, particularly at first. The first thing that I learned is that electrical work particularly on the construction site is a lot more construction than I was anticipating. Which, I thought I could do, and it was quite a humbling experience. Hopefully, this will help those electricians that are thinking about becoming electrical engineers but probably it's going to be more for electrical engineers that think they can do electrician work. Now, I would like to share 6 of my personal impressions as an electrical engineer of what it is like to do electrician work. But we spent a little over 2 weeks roughing in the electrical for our house and it has been a crazy learning experience and just an interesting experience in general. We just moved and are homeless at the moment - it's very sad. But recently, my wife and I finished doing the rough-in wiring for our house. We’ve tried to answer them as best as possible but, to be frank, we haven't had a whole lot of experience doing the electrician side of things. Here at CircuitBread, we actually get a lot of questions about electricians wanting to be electrical engineers and seeing if there is any relationship between electrical engineers and electricians.
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