October 15, 2005

• What a shitty week; I fucked up at work, bad. On Wednesday, I was
  hooking up a bunch of track lights at the soon to open Railspur Cafe in
  Granville Island and broke two fixtures while scratching the track up.
  Might need to buy new ones. Today on Friday I blew up a transformer by
  splicing low voltage and line voltage reverse, luckily it still works.
  Days like those just destroy me; it keeps me shaking for the next six
  hours and I lose all appetite.

  One thing is for sure, I can't wait to go to school at BCIT. School
  sounds alot more relaxing than work. Still waiting to get indentured
  for my apprenticeship. Good thing about trades; education pays you to
  learn. None of that "gimme thirty-thousand and maybe you'll be earning
  twenty dollars an hour, in five years" bullshit.
  Anytime in the future,
  good or bad, trades will always be there and in high demand. For every
  four trades workers that retire, one joins the force. Twenty years ago
  electricians made twelve bucks an hour when they became a fully fledged
  journeyman. I'm a noob apprentice, greener than cucumbers and I make
  twelve! Now, today, electrician journeymen make thirty; think about it,
  that's triple. I work like nuts and it gets tough out there, but it has
  to be worth it in the long run.

  Either way I don't exactly want to do this forever, it's a stepping
  stone, a foundation. I need this fluffy pillow to fall back on whenever
  I need to. After I'm done my apprenticeship I'll either branch off into
  a more specific electrical area or go into something else. I don't know
  if I would have the will to work twelve hour days with my own
  independant company, that seems too hard, but it's possible.

  Other than that, all I can say is that my hands are all torn up, slashed up, blistered, and callused. "Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise!"

  • 3:43 am
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