Electrical Engineering - Master Electrician

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Master Electrician - Time Requirements?

jules77@mindspring.com

2005-07-25, 9:21 am

Greetings,

I've been employed for over 25 years in business, the world is changing
in strange and mysterious ways (as in China is sucking us dry....)

So.. this might be a midlife crisis question but so be it...

1) How long does it take to become a Master Electrician?

2) How open is the field? Is it all union/family controlled? Does the
field support a 46 year old journeymen?

Bottom line how pratical would it be to break into the field and for
bonus point what kind of time/path/pay scale, would one expect?

Thanks much...

-Paul

SQLit

2005-07-25, 2:21 pm

<jules77@mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Greetings,
>
> I've been employed for over 25 years in business, the world is changing
> in strange and mysterious ways (as in China is sucking us dry....)
>
> So.. this might be a midlife crisis question but so be it...
>
>
> 1) How long does it take to become a Master Electrician?
>
> 2) How open is the field? Is it all union/family controlled? Does the
> field support a 46 year old journeymen?
>
> Bottom line how pratical would it be to break into the field and for
> bonus point what kind of time/path/pay scale, would one expect?
>
> Thanks much...
>
> -Paul

Most states that have a ME program that I know about would be 3-7 years of
experience.
I know Kentucky will let people with 4 years take the test. He did have a
MS in Electrical Engineering.

2) Depends on where you live. Probably would support another journeyman.

Again it depends on where you are.

Jörg Offner

2005-07-25, 6:21 pm

SQLit schrieb:

> Most states that have a ME program that I know about would be 3-7 years of
> experience.
> I know Kentucky will let people with 4 years take the test. He did have a
> MS in Electrical Engineering.
>
>

Hey, Im from Germany. After reading the postings above I asked myself if
the "ME" is the same as in German? After 10 years of basic-school you've
got to be an apprentice for 3 1/2 years in Germany, than you have a big
test before being an electrician (or many other jobs like mechanic,
driver, industrial special worker and so on). After more 3 years as
electrician you can get the "ME", after 1.000 hours learning in
business-school and another big test. But, it it not the same as
"Master" of an university! Being an "ME" is necessary to have an own
business in the most branches in Germany.

And China and Eastern Europe are a dangereous for our jobs here, too.

MfG

*Excuse my poor english*

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