okTrade licensing is a form of the old apprenticeship method. The government has taken upon itself the responsibility of "qualifying" people that want to work in the trades. It is the influence of the old apprenticeship method that causes requirements that you be experienced in each trade. As I said in a previous post, I am very over qualfied to be an electrician, and a lot of other people are, but you can not get a license without experience that is sworn to by people that are already in the trade of your choice.
I can underatand this when I see BSEE's come here and ask how to connect a single transistor to a microcontroller. A college degree leaves much to be desired in practical experience.
Licensing boards are always regional. Some only control a single county. Some are statewide. Still, small cities inside a county often require certain qualifications. A county license or a state license ususlly trumps a city requirement.
You seem to be asking for someone to describe the qualification and licensing requirements for every job in the world. This is impossible. You must decide what you want to work on, and where, and then ask how. You ask how at the local licening board.
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yes because mostly every trade job that I have come across knowledge-wise at most to actually understand how to do it can be easilly obtained from a subset of the knowledge of a 4/masters degree in an engineering discipline. The only difference is you need the experience in actually doing or at least the approval.You seem to be asking for someone to describe the qualification and licensing requirements for every job in the world. This is impossible. You must decide what you want to work on, and where, and then ask how. You ask how at the local licening board.
So in theory if you already have an engineering degree in all major engineering areas then how much more work would it be to obtain the approval to work in these trades.
Question 2
Somebody fresh out of college that has an engineering degree what would he be qualified to do. Say he has 2 degrees one in mechanical and one in electrical. Would he still have to go into a trade school and go thru the steps to become an electrian or could he bypass some steps.
I understand the engineers technically has more skills in general but what can an engineer do that the trade guys cann't and visa-versa?
Seems to me that engineers need to be certified by the trade guys to do work on airplanes , cars , boats , homes ,...etc but then what does the engineer do with all his knowledge.
Seems to me your kind of letting the less knowledgeable person into these hands on professions and boxing out the engineers ( but maybe I am wrong .... what does a mechanical or electrical engineer do if he cann't at least do electrician / construction work. )
Seems people are less focus on the more knowledge and more focused on the experience which determines a certain average level of competency. What should be going on is an equal balance of both for eventually the next generation will superseded the present... denying completely either type of person is just stupid. There should be an easy way that somebody fresh out of college is competeing with only people at his level and there should be equal jobs at equal levels.
Anything else to save money is just sacrificing human development and ingeniuty
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