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IBEW apprenticeship program
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My step son is finishing his fourth year in Lafayette. He went to Purdue for a year then decided he wanted to do something else. He doesn’t regret it one bit. He is making really good money and he is only 23. His pay will go up a lot after becoming a journeyman. Is would definitely be worth looking into more.
ChristianPatriot
Grandmaster
It’s a good trade but I’d recommend the Local 440 HVAC apprenticeship. JMHO.
I forget what the TH local is but I've worked around a bunch of Local 16 guys for years. In fact the electricians in our plant are Local 16 guys.
When I first started there, we had apprentices that were affiliated somehow with the IBEW apprentice program. It's been a long time now but best that I can remember is our plant decided who to hire and then they were inducted into the program. They worked so many hours/week and went to classes so many hours/week. To "top out", they had to complete so many work hours and so many hours of class. As they progressed, they were given more and more opportunities to do electrician work with decreasing levels of journeyman supervision.
I know that's not very specific but hopefully it helps a little.
I can't speak for the IBEW but I am a senior millwright that went thru slavery...I mean apprenticeship. I worked my butt off. 7,385 hours of OTJ (On The Job) training by multiple journeymen. They showed many aspects of doing the same job thru decades of experience. Best training one can get in my opine. I don't regret it one bit even when I worked with horse's asses. They had their reasons. Biggest aspect of the job is not to know it all, keep your mouth shut and your eyes open. Gleam all the knowledge from those guys. They've seen it, lived it, fixed it or replaced it, etc. Schooling was thru Ivy Tech and an associate's degree can be attained with a few more classes in English and Socialist Studies. I have been a journeyman for 28 years now. Second in satisfaction than my military service.
grahamsy2k
Sharpshooter
The training center is on Ohio after 9th street, and the hall is out off of 46 on Hulman. You can get all of the info you need there. It can get the ball rolling etc.
Another thing you can do is work as summer help this year as you wait to get in (I don't know where things stand with up coming classes). I would highly recommend it mainly because you'll get an idea of what you'll be doing before you jump into it, plus I'm sure it doesn't hurt when you get to the interviews.
Good career field, training is great, you've got class a few nights a week until you are through the apprenticeship (like most of the trade unions around). The pay steps seem to be pretty good as well, and the benefits are also good. I would base your choice off what you like to do though, asking about pay as an apprentice might not be the best way to make a choice (this is based on your above post).
You take a written test and after that you go through and interview process at which point in time you are picked up or not. If I were to pick a trade electrician would probably be it. I've got family and friends that are electricians, sheet metal guys, HVAC guys, plumbers, and welders too, but I don't have a ton of inside knowledge to all of the trades. I've got a friend though who owns his own HVAC business and if I were to go that route over electrician I think I'd also want to work for myself. My best friend is an electrician out of the hall in town and so is most of one side of my family. All indoor wiremen not linemen etc. My uncle is also a contractor in town and I worked for him one summer while in-between jobs after moving back home and I liked it (again summer help is a good idea if you are unsure). The companies always seem loyal to good employees and I never really see people laid off. My welder buddies are always traveling and out of work several months out of the year for example. Most all of the contractors around are all super good to work for as well. There are tons of great ones (some I know better than others) like Sycamore, HEF, Crown, NRK etc. so it's really a good hall to be out of I'd say. Just go get some info at the hall or find someone who is personal who can help you if you are serious. If you know an electrician get ahold of them, they are all pretty friendly to guys interested it seems, especially if they know the guy.
Another thing you can do is work as summer help this year as you wait to get in (I don't know where things stand with up coming classes). I would highly recommend it mainly because you'll get an idea of what you'll be doing before you jump into it, plus I'm sure it doesn't hurt when you get to the interviews.
Good career field, training is great, you've got class a few nights a week until you are through the apprenticeship (like most of the trade unions around). The pay steps seem to be pretty good as well, and the benefits are also good. I would base your choice off what you like to do though, asking about pay as an apprentice might not be the best way to make a choice (this is based on your above post).
You take a written test and after that you go through and interview process at which point in time you are picked up or not. If I were to pick a trade electrician would probably be it. I've got family and friends that are electricians, sheet metal guys, HVAC guys, plumbers, and welders too, but I don't have a ton of inside knowledge to all of the trades. I've got a friend though who owns his own HVAC business and if I were to go that route over electrician I think I'd also want to work for myself. My best friend is an electrician out of the hall in town and so is most of one side of my family. All indoor wiremen not linemen etc. My uncle is also a contractor in town and I worked for him one summer while in-between jobs after moving back home and I liked it (again summer help is a good idea if you are unsure). The companies always seem loyal to good employees and I never really see people laid off. My welder buddies are always traveling and out of work several months out of the year for example. Most all of the contractors around are all super good to work for as well. There are tons of great ones (some I know better than others) like Sycamore, HEF, Crown, NRK etc. so it's really a good hall to be out of I'd say. Just go get some info at the hall or find someone who is personal who can help you if you are serious. If you know an electrician get ahold of them, they are all pretty friendly to guys interested it seems, especially if they know the guy.
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I don't know what the apprentice scale is like but I do know the guys in our plant that like to work the OT can zoom right past $100k/year.
To add to what fish said, it does help if you know people. As with any other competitive thing, the people doing the selecting will tend to pick people they know over the complete stranger, all other things being equal.
