u/Major_Tom_01010

As i get older I'm looking into possible jobs that are easier on the body. I am wondering about becoming a home inspector. I am a self employed residential electrician. I am wondering if the courses would teach me enough about the other areas that I would be able to, or if you need to have come up as a builder. I have a couple years before being an electrician i worked in construction labor, and have renovated my house a lot but I'm by no means a jack of all trades - more a master of one.

I also noticed in my research i need to job shadow. How would i convince anyone to do this? Would me being able to help with the electrical portion, go in the attic and roof for them be enough of a trade? I would plan on still being an electrician, this is just something i could supliment with that doesn't make me so sore all the time.

I'm located in Northern BC.

Thanks for any advice.

I did solar back in the spring, called hydro and double checked that it was fine if I used my own electrical buisness to be my own installer. I got it done and after a bit of a wait have been connected for a few months.

I have currently been dealing with the rebate department for two months now - I had a couple mistakes in my application such an invoice but did not realize i hadn't attached the proof of payment. I can't see what files i have submitted and they don't seem to fully read my responses, they only respond by email no phone and they take a week to respond each time. It's all stuff that a 10 minute phone call would have cleared up.

The last email they were asking yet again for an installation invoice - but the only thing my buisness paid for was the permit and the electrical components to go from my roof box to panel - there's no reason i would charge myself labor. I'm now at 2 weeks since their last reply. I changed the wording in the invoice to myself to include the phrase installation.

Anyways, what an annoying process - I have made sure to stay polite the entire time of course, after all i did miss some paperwork. But it's almost like the department is designed to stop you from getting the rebate and I'm kind of tempted to say screw it.

Right now I'm 2600W micro system that i spent $5k on, they owe me $2600 in rebate. Right now I'm locked into trading watt for watt for the next 10 years but the moment i take the rebate they will force me to switch to selling at 10 cents. Right now it's not too bad because i only pay 11.8, only use stage 1, and still use double what i make (just not at the same time). However they can continue to make me change my deal or jack up the sell price without changing the purchase price.

Hi there so i could use a sanity check on this. We baught an older home that has needed a ton of work, I'm self employed and my wife has gotten promoted to a much higher paying job. She makes $120k and if i worked flat out i could maybe make $80k. We live in a lower expense area and only have about $100k left on our mortgage and no kids.

Right now my buisness has been a bit slow and I'm probably only doing about $60k. But i have a never ending amount of work to do on the house to improve its value (full reno plus basement suite). I have the skills to do about 80% of this myself and it's all stuff that needs to get done. Every time i get a quote to have something i could do myself it always turns out i could save more money then i can make by just doing it myself.

I'm getting a bit older and my buisness is physically demanding so i can't do this evenings without breaking my body. My wife says i should just relax and work on the house as much as possible. I agree but always feel a bit bad. The math works out though, people want like $2k to do something i can do it a few days and no way i can make that much on my job. We bought our house for 400 and with market and improvements it should be worth 500+ when done no problem.

Anyone been in this situation before and have thoughts on it?

So this is a first, i put the point on the hot spot and so it's now actually 200 at the point and 180 on the flat. I flipped it a couple hours ago when i noticed the gap. Point is now testing probe tender but the flat not ready. I have 5 hours before dinner time as i like to oven hold.

What's my best play here?

Briskets... they get you with something new every time.