Sorry, what education level do you need to become an electrician? A levels, degree. Thats what people consider an education. Every job required training. There are plenty that require exams to become certified but to become a doctor you do 2 years of a-levels, 5 years of medical school, 2 years pre-reg and then you have plenty of other exams if you want to progress.
Also by your wisdom we should pay lorry and bus drivers a lot because they could potentially kill lots of people. Christ, they could kill 20 or more houses worth of people so they should be on god knows what.
I know I'm not a qualified electrician. That doesn't have anything to do with the fact that you don't have to be particularly bright to be one and you don't have to have a high level of education. I'm sure there are plenty of electricians out there who are much brighter than I am but again, thats entirely beside the point. We don't pay people based on their intelligence, we pay them based on the job they do.
You can be back and forth to college to get a beauticians qualification for years, whats that got to do with anything. I don't know why you are taking this as a personal insult to your intelligence unless you are insecure about it. As I have said above, your job doesn't dictate your intelligence or capacity to learn. The intelligence required to do a job doesn't mean that everyone doing that job is of that intellect. Do you think that every bin man is borderline retarded because their job could be done by literally any able bodied person?
My very simple point is that a lot of trades charge a lot of money for a job that is not massively skilled. In every job there are people who are more skilled than others as well. Your local pubs chef probably isn't as good as a michelin star chef and their salaries reflect that. The simple fact is that the work that residential electricians do is not very hard from a technical standpoint. Same for plumbing etc.
Upon your reference to intelligent which again is an unintelligent argument - A taxi driver doesn’t need intelligence, how many with phd’s there are plenty of people out there who are over qualified in there line of work.
Again local pup chef are you for real do you actually talk to humanity, talking to different chefs, where their ability and skills are that high but not in that job and it bewilders me why they do not run a restaurant of the same quality. Then we are talking about the psychology of our society-industry as well as the psychology of the individual chef.
Stacking shelf’s does not need much intelligence and if you were to check the intelligence or qualification of people doing this you will be surprised.
If you’re not running a plumbing/electrician company or doing the job don’t judge the skills that are required through the range of skills or intelligence required, as it is attitudes like that, that often we get called out for. Such as I tried to change a tap, I ran my waste pipe. When I first trained I was working as hevac engineer, covering jobs such as fridge freezers, cold rooms, unvented hot water systems, plumbing, electrics, boilers & heating. So much has been stolen from the industry because of attitudes like yours, including politics which has misled the public in thinking that there are not enough people in the industry in the 80’s and are industry is flooded with people leaving their jobs to do this industry. This is without the fly boys who think they can do the job and miss out safety devices in the plumbing on installations, thats without missing out safety devices in unvented hot water systems. Very much like the poor old couple because someone forgot to put to pierce can before placing in a pan and boiling, a potential bomb.
Most issues in the industry can be broken down to people issues very much like the post office scandal, programming, to how it was managed from the company that knew it sold a faulty program to the post office management of it. Often issues are broken down to the responsible person being the customer who thinks he knows better because he is a lawyer, a Dr in science, an engineer. So pushes for things to be done his way. Sometimes its the architect who drives it a particular way. There are several blocks of flats in Hampshire area that built with heating systems and controls that are not regulations due to misunderstanding of the building regulations.
So when you demean a persons intelligence which is an abuse by the way, is arrogant, ignorant and shows a lack of intelligence in itself.
