Energize Us Edu Inc

Stop feeling guilty for knowing how to solve the problem

Now I get why so many good electricians undercharge themselves

Because they feel bad when the job does not take long

But if you keep charging based only on time

You punish yourself for getting better

The goal is not to rob people

The goal is to charge fair

Cover the business

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Getting your electrical license is not the finish line. It’s the baseline.
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You’re now legally allowed to do the work. You still don’t know how to bid it. You don’t know how to price it.
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You don’t know how to read a customer, manage a job that’s behind schedule, or write a contract that protects you.
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The first 12 months after your license are when most electricians stall. They take the same paycheck for the same work and wonder why nothing changed.
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The license alone doesn’t move the number. What moves the number is the skill stack you build on top of it.
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Sales. Pricing. Customer management. Project management. Marketing.
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The license gets you in the room. What you do in the room is on you.
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The contractor charging triple your rate doesn’t own better tools. He owns better answers.
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He knows what to say when a customer pushes back on price. He knows how to close a $40,000 panel upgrade in 15 minutes.
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That’s the kit you should be building in your post-license year. Not another impact driver.

An electricians character shows the most when nobody is standing over them

Because in this trade you can hide a lot if you want to

You can hide sloppy work behind drywall

You can leave a mess for the next guy

You can rush something because the customer will never see it

You can cut a corner because nobody is watching.

That is something I am learning more and more in this trade

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Electrician shouldn’t be punished for solving the problem fast

Sometimes it took 10 minutes because they already spent years learning what not to waste time on.

Customers do not hate the price they hate that the electrician knew the answer in 10 minutes

And I get it

From the outside it looks crazy,
You call an electrical contractor out
They show up

Look around

Test a few things

Find the problem

Fix it fast

And now the customer is thinking: That only took 10 minutes

“Why am I paying that much?”

But what they forget is they already tried to figure it out

They already flipped the breaker

They already checked the outlet

They already asked somebody

They already searched YouTube …

And that is exactly why they called the electrician

You are not just paying for the 10 minutes

You are paying for the person who knew where to look

You are paying for the experience.

When am I ever going to use this in real life?

I am 33 years old now and I still do not use algebra like they told me I would

So when I saw atoms electrons conductors insulators voltage current and resistance I almost had that same reaction

But today it finally clicked

Electrical theory is not just random book work

It is the foundation of the whole trade

Electricians are not just connecting wires and hoping something turns on

We are creating safe paths for electricity to move

That starts all the way down at the atomic level

Electrons are moving
conductors are giving them a path
insulators are keeping that energy controlled
voltage is pushing
current is flowing
resistance is changing how that energy behaves

And if we do not understand that then we do not really understand what is happening inside the wire

That is why this stuff matters

Because electricity does not care if you understand it or not and that’s when accidents happen …

A customer will get three prices: Cheap, Fast or Good

One contractor explains the work:
the materials
the labor
the permit
the time
the risk
and what it actually takes to do it right

Then another guy comes in way cheaper…
And everybody thinks the cheaper guy is the honest one.

Sometimes cheaper means he missed something,
Sometimes cheaper means he is rushing,
Sometimes cheaper means he is not including everything,
Sometimes cheaper means the job will get done twice, and not by them.

And the second time is always more expensive…

That is what I am starting to understand about this trade,

Now does that mean the highest price is always the best?
No

But the lowest price is not always the best deal either,

Sometimes that cheap bid is just a future problem with a discount on it.

Everybody wants to argue about material markup

Until they are the one responsible for making sure the job actually gets finished

A customer sees a breaker:
A box
Wire
Conduit
Devices

And thinks the contractor just added money on top for no reason…

But material is never just grab and go.
Somebody had to know what to order,
Insure and Warranty it,
Somebody had to price it,
Somebody had to pick it up,
And somebody still has to be responsible when the job needs to pass inspection.

Now does that mean every contractor is fair?
Hell No
Some Electricians definitely abuse it

The more I learn this trade the more I realize electrical work is not just doing clean installs.

There’s so much more to running an electrical business.

How to protect you from electrical hazards…

We just finished day 2 of our electrical apprenticeship

Based off osha here a quick safety facts that says insulating gloves must be inspected before each day of use and after anything that could have damaged them and gloves need an air test along with the inspection.

Gloves with holes tears punctures cuts cracking sticky rubber hardening swelling or embedded objects should not be used.

Rubber insulating gloves also need electrical testing before first issue and every 6 months after that.

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