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The working life - kit, weather, apprenticeships and the difference between the domestic and commercial sides of the trade.
On the ToolsWorking Through a Prairie WinterCable that will not bend, batteries that die by ten, and the safety problem nobody lists: hurrying.2026-04-19
On the ToolsWhat Actually Lives on the BeltAfter a few years everyone converges on roughly the same dozen items. Here is the list and why.2026-04-02
On the ToolsWhat the Apprenticeship Is Actually LikeFour years, a lot of conduit, and considerably more paperwork than anyone tells you at the open evening.2026-03-16
On the ToolsCommercial and Residential Are Different TradesSame regulations, same physics, almost nothing else in common.2026-02-27The parts nobody covers at college
Training teaches the regulations and the theory, and does very little about the rest of it: what to carry, how to work when the cable will not bend, what the first year actually feels like, and which side of the trade suits you. Those are learned from whoever happens to be training you, which means they are learned unevenly.