Direction for 60 year old electrician?

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Would anyone have any ideas what direction a 60 year old self-employed electrician (currently with no income) could move towards now that there isnt any work in the domestic wiring area, without significant re-training (& exclusing Building Energy Rating).
 
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Rewiring electrics to be more effecient. Replacing old CH timers with better timers. Putting the water heating on a seperate circuit to the CH. Auto off lights, things like that. Installing monitors that track power usage. Things like this. Seen all these in Germany decades ago. In Ireland we're still putting in manual timers, and simple on/off switches on new builds.
 
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Are you in any way 'handy' in a general sense? E.g. tiling, carpentery etc - your skills could be useful when applied to a wide range of DIY stuff maybe if you sell yourself as a handyman who is also a qualified electrician.
 
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Thanks for the response, how does one go from electrician to auto electrician exactly?
 
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No idea. Maybe theres a course in Bolton St or through FAS. Maybe ask an auto electrians?
 
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Has to be general electrical work, try advertising at a low rate, low income is better than no income.
 
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I think B & Q employ tradesmen for their shops ,you could try that if its your sort of thing
 
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dinjoecurry said:
I think B & Q employ tradesmen for their shops ,you could try that if its your sort of thing
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True, and at the grand old age of 60 would be a lot handier than doin the hard labour involved in most electrical work. All ya do there is give out advice to customers..
 
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well i dont want to seem checky but a 60yr old self employed sparky should not have to worrie about no income sparkeys were making a fortune when the boom was in full flow
 
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blueoval said:
well i dont want to seem checky but a 60yr old self employed sparky should not have to worrie about no income sparkeys were making a fortune when the boom was in full flow
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Well over a lifetime the boom hardly stretches to cover a house and family etc not to mention all of the rising costs that occured, and its not what the ops looking for.
 
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blueoval said:
well i dont want to seem checky but a 60yr old self employed sparky should not have to worrie about no income sparkeys were making a fortune when the boom was in full flow
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Never made a fortune nor anything like it, had a 2 person operation struggling to meet equipment costs, prsi, tax etc before living costs. So take off the Nikes and stop jumping to assumptions. Thanks
 
Is there a logical move to more green technologies? e.g. solar power, wind power - or is that still too small?

Or using your experience for maintenance of older systems in building e.g. hospitals, factories? Younger guys wouldn't know about the older stuff.

Call up everyone you have ever worked with, get the word out that you are available.

And try find the people who could never find a tradesman during the boom - all those smaller domestic jobs still need doing.
 
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blueoval said:
well i dont want to seem checky but a 60yr old self employed sparky should not have to worrie about no income sparkeys were making a fortune when the boom was in full flow
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This sort of comment really annoys me. Not everyone made a fortune in the boom and it's wrong for people to assume so.
 
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blueoval said:
well i dont want to seem checky but a 60yr old self employed sparky should not have to worrie about no income sparkeys were making a fortune when the boom was in full flow
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Pathetic, if I'm reading it right blueoval has 3 posts, so he/she went to the trouble of registering here to type in sh1te like that, actually no it's not pathetic, pathetic is an aspiration for people like that (sorry for hijacking the thread)
 
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dinjoecurry said:
I think B & Q employ tradesmen for their shops ,you could try that if its your sort of thing
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I think that's a great idea. As far as I can see, the average age profile seems to be appropriate for the OP too.
 
Something worth looking into is lecturing with FAS or private companies. I would like to do this at some point in my career.
 
How about going down the home automation route? Wire the home for CAT6 data, speakers, link up heating/lights and ventilation systems so that they can all be controlled remotely.

Ok that is at the extreme but could be done using baby steps i.e. start installing lights that have remote controls or that come on/ turn off automatically if they detect movement.

Been looking for a tradesman to wire up my new build but none of them are aware of the technology.
 
krissovo said:
How about going down the home automation route? Wire the home for CAT6 data, speakers, link up heating/lights and ventilation systems so that they can all be controlled remotely.

Ok that is at the extreme but could be done using baby steps i.e. start installing lights that have remote controls or that come on/ turn off automatically if they detect movement.

Been looking for a tradesman to wire up my new build but none of them are aware of the technology.
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Smarthomes.ie is a good site for this type of thing.. I know companies in Dublin that do it but unfortunately not in Cork!
 
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