I just started as an electrician today

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I just started as an electrician today. Tomorrow I have to do work at my first customer's house.

Can anyone tell me how to wire a circuit?

Thanks!!


:rolleyes:


I keep seeing these first day SEO professionals asking the forum how to do SEO work for their first customer that they already sold the job to under the guise that they knew what they were doing. This is crazy.
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  • Yeah, CRAZY huh!?!!??

    In the US I don't even think you can wire another persons place in any material way unless supervised, or you have a license! It is ALSO a good idea to be employed or have a bond. And WATCH WELDERS AND FRAMERS! Some of them are CARELESS and may not make your work any easier.

    As for HELP? For SEO it could be a brief 1-2 dozen pages MAYBE.(Between how the engines work, HTML, CSS, gotchas with client side code, forum methods, "social networks", etc...) For electricians, a bit more. Don't worry, I think you are safe from most people HERE.

    On a related note, I recently watched a "to catch a contractor" episode. Basically, they find people that hired home contractors, and were cheated. They then track down the main contractor and give them three choices:

    1. DO THE WORK!!!!!!!!!!
    2. BUY your way out by paying every penny!
    3. We'll pull everything together and help your customer sue your pants off.

    I watched an episode where they were hired to fix a bathroom and kitchen that were under maybe 2" of SEWAGE. The contractor took the old soaked cabinets out, took the bathroom fixtures out, retiled, ripped it up, retiled again, brought the cabinets back in, and LEFT! The family suffered from poisoning from the open sewage lines, and pests from the contaminated cabinets.

    Luckily, they ended up happy.

    Steve
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      Last I heard from a licensed electrician, you can run wire in a home (paid helper) but it has to be inspected & you can't make the connection at the power box. Basically doing all the grunt work.
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  • If you don't know how, better not apply for the job, it's a dent on your reputation at long run. For the SEO guys, I believe some do outsource the job to "professionals" with cheaper price tag. #Justmythought.
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    • Er...guys? The OP was using the electrician example to illustrate the absurdity of certain "I've got this client" threads. Notice the winking emoticon?

      @Electrical. Don't you know you can just outsource it to Fiverr?

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    Trust me, your not the only one that gets tired of those types of threads. It gets nasty sometimes when people start calling those guys out (SEO sellers that don't know the basics). Still, I try to help people that ask legit questions about SEO.

    If it's a question like what is a backlink & they have SEO services listed in their forum sig. or profile name, they're history. Keep in mind it's impossible for mods to find every spam/BS thread. If you find something that doesn't look right, report it.
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    • I dunno. I find it hilarious when people are stupid enough to claim expertise in their sig and then ask questions that anyone with remedial knowledge in the field would know. I'm not sure how those people think that is helping them, but it is certainly not a way to show you have the mentality to have your own business going. At all. I do find it an easy means of figuring out who not to do business with, though. Even a well-educated electrician can be color blind, if you get my drift.
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  • Banned
    The op is a troll
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    • I didn't read it that the OP was a troll. He was just stating that he sees people asking for help to do something they were supposed to already know because now they have a purchaser that wants a service.

      I can state that I have seen this type of thing actually taught by others a long time ago here on WF that it's okay to sell something you have no idea how to do, but once you sell it, you go find someone else who can do whatever and collect a profit.

      Definitely scarey and screwy way to do business.
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  • Banned
    Stand in water
    Touch all the wires
  • Here's an introductory vid if you need it:

    Big Capacitor Safety - YouTube

    I just love these guys - they like to make messes and blow shit up
  • I hope you realized, I DID know he used his job(or a job he COULD have) s a leadin to talk about SEOs. I never thought he was actually worried. GEE, some people take me too seriously sometimes and think I didn't get the point.

    Now if he is a TROLL, that is ANOTHER thing. Going by only the info here, it is almost a year old and less than 50 posts with no sigs and a couple thanks.

    Steve
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    • I'm not a troll. I have been trolled many times today by the guy who called me a troll in this thread (who is now banned). I'm just an electrician looking to better his website. This thread was made as a joke.
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  • Nothing wrong with acting like a true middle-man -- a broker -- who puts a buyer together with a seller.

    But it's just plain dishonest to represent yourself as the one doing the service and then farm it out to someone else.

    Just my opinion, of course.
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