Going to second the thought of working with a good splicer. Best way to learn while having a backup to help you when things go bad.
Its a total different set of tools and a different skill set.
And for all the old splicers out there, things have changed installs these day are a pain and a lot more involved than they used to be.
One of the things your not considering is when you make a mistake while learning on an install you affect only that sub. But when you make a mistake splicing there is more at stake. So the pressure is multipied.
But if you can see the the big picture and get the gist of things quickly you should do fine. but then again, it doesnt pay like it used to. Seems a 3 tier tech doing installls is better off doing what he knows.
And be careful with the I know everything attitude, cause once you open this door it opens a whole new world. Its just different, and you can think you know a lot and constantly run into new stuff.
When I was in-house as a maintenance tech, whenever we hired a guy from install depratment we had a progression plan that would take 5 yrs to go from Tech 1 to Tech 4.
Re: transition to splicing
Member #: 27357
Registered: 12/17/2003
Posted:
397
Name:
Christopher H.
Occupation:
Sweep/Ingress,Splicing
Location:
All over the West
Personal:
late 50s
Experience:
~30 years
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