u/eIectrocutie

Is this a thing? I had no idea people ever tipped their tradies but I get tipped maybe every 1 in 10 jobs. It's always the women over 60 years old who do it. Anywhere from $20 to $200.

For context I'm a female apprentice whose Jman sends to a job alone (or usually with a young apprentice) since he trusts me to do good work. It's usually liberal old women who tip so I was wondering if it had anything to do with them being excited to see a woman in the trades or if this was a somewhat common thing I was unaware of.

Drove an hour out to a job with my apprentice and we did some work on a circuit. At the end we checked everything to ensure it was working before we left and last thing I checked was a light. Drove all the way home and got a call that the entire circuit wasn't working. We drove all the way back and realized the mistake. My apprentice had accidentally wired the light to be constantly powered (old house, power came to light first) and switching the light "on" caused a short circuit. That's on me for not checking his work. Now, I might've noticed that something was wrong if the switch hadn't been a three way repurposed as a single pole, making the "on" down and the "off" up. When we first energized the circuit the light obviously came on so we considered it functional. We checked all the outlets and the very last thing I did was test the light by turning it "off." What I actually did was turn it "on" and caused a short circuit that tripped the breaker as I was walking out the door.

So now I know, test an outlet last or maybe give the lights an "on off on off" test. Save your time and gas and learn from my little blunder here.