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So, after discovering this forum I now have somewhere to ask other gas engineers questions that I may not get answered by the people I have worked with for years so here we go:
Gas worry.
Does anybody else get this?
I have been doing Plumbing and Heating for 9 years now, I left school at 16, got an apprenticeship with a massive North West firm and stayed with them for 8 and a half years. At the end of last year I had enough, picked my tools up and walked off the job. No notice nothing. I felt that I wasnt ever going to get proper responsability, and wanted to learn more.
In my eyes it was the best thing I ever did.
Anyway, to get the point I started a new job 7 weeks ago. Now in any given year I would have maybe serviced 4 to 5 boilers, and the person I was working with would sign them off.
Now its upto me to sign them off. I will be doing maybe 30 a year now, along with fixing boiler breakdowns and changing parts. So I just wondered, does anyone else worry that they have maybe not done something right?
I thought I was pretty clued up on boilers up until this week where I came across two boilers that were installed whilst I was still in school. I have fixed them both, and found the problems myself, but it just made me think.......Do I really know enough?
Is this just a confidence thing that every youngish person goes through. I know I am doing everything how I was taught in college, I am also recording everything I do.
But over the past few days I have started thinking to myself, Have I been taught enough? What if this happens or that happens?
As I said, I know that my all of my testing is correct and I am recording every single thing I do. I just get that worry in my head every now and then.
So hopefully some of the more experienced lads on here will tell me not to worry, and that with even more experience comes assurance in your own work!
Gas worry.
Does anybody else get this?
I have been doing Plumbing and Heating for 9 years now, I left school at 16, got an apprenticeship with a massive North West firm and stayed with them for 8 and a half years. At the end of last year I had enough, picked my tools up and walked off the job. No notice nothing. I felt that I wasnt ever going to get proper responsability, and wanted to learn more.
In my eyes it was the best thing I ever did.
Anyway, to get the point I started a new job 7 weeks ago. Now in any given year I would have maybe serviced 4 to 5 boilers, and the person I was working with would sign them off.
Now its upto me to sign them off. I will be doing maybe 30 a year now, along with fixing boiler breakdowns and changing parts. So I just wondered, does anyone else worry that they have maybe not done something right?
I thought I was pretty clued up on boilers up until this week where I came across two boilers that were installed whilst I was still in school. I have fixed them both, and found the problems myself, but it just made me think.......Do I really know enough?
Is this just a confidence thing that every youngish person goes through. I know I am doing everything how I was taught in college, I am also recording everything I do.
But over the past few days I have started thinking to myself, Have I been taught enough? What if this happens or that happens?
As I said, I know that my all of my testing is correct and I am recording every single thing I do. I just get that worry in my head every now and then.
So hopefully some of the more experienced lads on here will tell me not to worry, and that with even more experience comes assurance in your own work!
