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[Neil924]

Are the daily duties boring? {residential, office buildings}
Is there always trouble when you go to a job? {Never straight forward}
Are there many aspects where colour comes into play? I am colour blind.
Is it mostly seasonal? ie: 30 weeks a year.
Any pointers to someone looking into the trade?

Thanks.

[Ozzie]

Not sure about the regs O/S but the colour blindness can be a big issue.
Polarity on 415/240volts/115 volts can literally be a killer if not done right.
Vehicles with 'extra low voltage' is anything below 50v and if you cant distinguish between red and black then you can be in trouble.
Stereo systems- forget it- lots of colours there too.

I'm afraid if I was hiring then you'd be on the bottom of the list because of this alone.
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[Peter_in_AU]

I'm not an Electrician and also live in Australia so apply salt:

For high voltage / household wiring (here anyway) colour-blindness is not an issue. Many years back the standard colours for high-voltage cables was changed specifically so the colours could be easily recognised by colour-blind people. Given that, what is it - 10% of the human race is at least partially colour-blind (or is that psychotic) it should not be an issue.

Low-voltage stuff where no standards exists is probably not colour-blind friendly.
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[My924gtc]

I'm no electrician but I am a Journeyman Carpenter so I used to be around that trade all the time.

I'd say the CB'ness would not matter too much in the residential/ commercial end of it. It is not like cars where multiple color wire exists and differentiating between them would be key.

Standard building wire is black, white, and green AFAIK and as long as you can keep them straight you'd be good to go.

Electricians make good money, $55 hour here is the going rate for a contractor working directly for a homeowner, slightly less if you are working for a builder, and a lot less if you are a non-union worker doing it for a contracting company. We also have great aprenticeship programs through the union, but it is like 4 years of training.
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[Neil924]

Thanks for the responses.

My plan was to go school, go through all of the steps and once I was out working I would collect a couple of years on the job then run my own business. I understand that this field is somewhat different from other types of business but I'm more of a manager bee than a worker bee. Any comments?

[Ozzie]

The standard for power in Aust. was red white and blue for the phases for 415v and above. black for neutral and green/yellow for earth.
For 240v it was red black and g/y
It is changing to brown, light blue and g/y.
If you can distinguish between these colours then fine.
Sorry - should have clarified earlier.
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Its AUTO and its BLACK
Montego Black on black/red
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[Neil924]

It's hard to explain what I see. But apparently blue and purple show as one colour as well as green and brown, yellow and orange and pink and grey.