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<p>but i’ve heard that it’s myth that all the jobs are shipping off to India?</p>
<p>tentai: yeah that too! ‘software engineer’ is one of the crummiest jobs around. I’ve been in it for 10+ years. It used to be they had to treat us with a little respect or we would just quit and go somewhere else. Now there are fewer places to escape to and the corporate wonks really put the screws to us (i.e. cubicles smaller than prison cells, mine is 6’ x 6’. I can stand in the middle and touch any of the four walls).</p>
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<p>I’m not sure how it works in every state, as electrical governing bodies having jourisdiction vary state by state, and even county by county in some states, but in Idaho, the owner of the business needs no electrical license. He just has to have a master electrician employeed who is willing to sign onto his contractors license. Therefor, I see no reason why the owner could not have any one of his journeyman use there license number to sign off on his apprenticeship hours. Unless the state has a specific law on the books addressing this, which I have never heard of in Idaho anyway. Even if there was a specific local code against it, it seems it could be easilly overlooked, because the only information on your apprenticeship form is the journeymans license number, the electrical contractors license number, and your apprentice license number. I doubt anyone would ever even connect the dots and realize that the owner was the apprentice in question.</p>
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<p>Last I heard, the local here is forcing everybody to take 14 weeks unpaid furlough every year.</p>
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<p>Ouch, 3 months off. Thats a while. I havn’t worked full time sense august though, just hit and miss work here and there where I can find it. I’d rather have 14 weeks off with union pay then be as slow as I am now, and not be making union wages. But there’s up and downs on both sides I suspose.</p>
<p>^^that rule has always been in place whenever work goes slow. They will collect unemployment and the union has a B-fund which supplements the difference of what their normal pay would be.</p>
<p>My son caught the electric bug as we call it when we hired a contractor to do some electrical work for our addition. We used a company called Mister Sparky that we found on the web ([Spring</a> Electrician | Spring Electricians | Texas Electricians](<a href=“http://www.springelectrician.net%5DSpring”>http://www.springelectrician.net)) and they were great. The technicians would let my son “help” them by bringing them their tools and such. Now he wants to be an elecrician.</p>