Electrical Engineering

[Skosh]

Hi guys,

I am looking for a little but of advice and hope somebody can help.

I am currently looking at a change in career and I am thinking about electrical engineering.

Now I know the normal way into this is a degree in the subject or an apprenticeship.

To give you a bit of background, I am 25 with a law degree and most of my work experience is customer service and sales focused.

The advice I am looking for is how best to make my way into the discipline, I'm not sure about starting an apprenticeship at 25 as I am aware that the money isn't great. I have good results from school in both maths and physics.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[MR Kirbyz]

I know you said no to the apprenticeship part but a man on my college course used to work as a call centre manager earning circa 40k a year. At 29 he changed and got an aprrenticeship in electrical engineering, obviously there was a big wages drop but he managed, had to downgrade the car which could be painfull to say on here :P. It did help that he had a wife who could pay most of the mortgage, bills etc.

[chryslerben]

When you say electrical engineering are you talking domestic/Industrial or do you mean more electronic engineering? I posted a thread about the latter a few weeks back unfortunately no replies. Have you thought about part time courses at college?

[Deva Link]

"Engineering" is about designing things, with Electrical Engineering typically about designing thing like power distribution systems. It's pretty maths based and would normally require a degree in Electrical Engineering.

I think what the OP is referring to is becoming an Electrician.

[andrew311]

Back to Uni if you can or part time to get a degree. All this electrical stuff is just black magic to me......