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Originally Posted by YoungGunna
Hey Ryder, you seem like you've been in the industry for a while now. I've got a couple questions.
Im currently working in a recreational facility as a building operations worker. To move up I'll need at least my class 4 power engineering. I currently work full time, and my company would be willing to pay for my education, but they dont really want me to take time off work.
With that being said, I would need to take distance education. How hard is the material to learn by distance education? Im not that strong in math but everything else I'm confident I can pick up releativly easily.
For your 4th class exam, is there any practicum time you are required to complete? to my understanding its just for the 3rd class?
Assuming that I finish my 4th class in a years time, I would have had 3 years in total of related work experience, what should I be expecting in terms of average wages?
Thanks in advance!
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You need firing time for fourth class, your work should be able to give you the firing time since you been working there for three years. However if its not a fourth class plant then you would be out of luck and need to find firing time.
Math was hard for the older guys because its been so long since theyve taking it. Most guys take the math refresher course before they enroll. If youve taken grade 12 math , this should not be a problem. The mechanical things are straight foward and yes you do need to be mechanically incline to understand it.
Wages are from 18-35 bucks an hour. Like i said before, 18 is for people right out of school, if you have 3 years and have DDC experience, your looking at 25-30. Wages are rising every year so this could change.