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Motorcycle mechanic apprenticeship for a middle-aged guy?

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Lightcycle said:
I used to work in marketing and we'd ship equipment to trade shows across the country.

After each show, we'd tear everything down and stuff them into the shipping cases and containers. Our moving truck was literally 50m outside the convention centre's loading docks. I could have walked everything there myself in under 15 minutes. But no, not allowed to do that. That's a union job, so we gotta wait 3 hours for the guy with the forklift to come around, strap it down and move it 50m.

*SMH*
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At one point, a long time ago, I worked for a company that supplied electrical equipment to stage shows, arenas and concerts. We'd fill the truck, drive up to the door and sit there for as long as it took for the IATSE guys to unload, set up, tear down and put back in the truck. Flipside, I got to see a few gigs from backstage.
 
bitzz said:
There is a GO station just around the corner from GP... one bus or a quick dash across the 401
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I just looked it up, Mimico GO to Whitby is 75 mins best-case scenario, $11 each way, so ~$440 a month for the privilege of riding the train up to 3 hours a day.

Haven't crunched the numbers but driving costs and travel time would likely be even worse.

Makes no sense either way, not for an entry-level job.
 
Matt Rain said:
I just looked it up, Mimico GO to Whitby is 75 mins best-case scenario, $11 each way, so ~$440 a month for the privilege of riding the train up to 3 hours a day.

Haven't crunched the numbers but driving costs and travel time would likely be even worse.

Makes no sense either way, not for an entry-level job.
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According to Google Maps it's 70 km from Mimico GO station to GP Bikes and will take 1 hour at 8:37 on a crappy, rainy day. With gas priced over 1.50/litre and likely staying there or climbing higher, you're right that the economics don't work.
 
adri said:
.....Dude, I get far more PTSD thinking about how much money I've given my electrician for two visits than I do from how much money I've given mechanics from 15 years of motorcycle riding.
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I did my own electrical work on my last house....an electrician buddy signed off on the things that needed a sign off on..... cause my work was better than his.....lol
 
Riceburner said:
I did my own electrical work on my last house....an electrician buddy signed off on the things that needed a sign off on..... cause my work was better than his.....lol
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Curious what needed to signed off? I asked one of the electricians that work for me to sign off on work when I was flipping a house and he said that if he did work then it would need to be inspected. If I did it all, being the homeowner, it wouldn't have to be inspected. He was right. Building inspector checked plumbing rough-in but I don't recall one question about the electrical.
 
woot said:
Curious what needed to signed off? I asked one of the electricians that work for me to sign off on work when I was flipping a house and he said that if he did work then it would need to be inspected. If I did it all, being the homeowner, it wouldn't have to be inspected. He was right. Building inspector checked plumbing rough-in but I don't recall one question about the electrical.
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An electrician cannot sign off on anything specially someone else's work in this context, full stop.
  • If a licensed electrician does the work they need a notification (permit) and the ESA inspects the work (service, rough and final) and "signs off", notification must now be under a licensed electrical contractor not just a licensed electrician.
  • If a homeowner does the work (DIY) they need a notification (permit) and the ESA inspects the work (service, rough and final) and "signs off".
If the homeowner pulls the ESA notification (by the rules before the work starts) they must be an adult "living" in the house and they must do the work with only other people living in the house, they cannot (by the rules) then sub the work to an electrician, handyman, buddy, hack, drunkard, whatever. Service inspection is only if a new service is part of the deal, if not rough and final only.

Building inspectors etc. do not inspect electrical or the other way around but there can be some overlap like wired fire alarms etc.
 
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backmarkerducati said:
An electrician cannot sign off on anything specially someone else's work in this context, full stop.
  • If a licensed electrician does the work they need a notification (permit) and the ESA inspects the work (service, rough and final) and "signs off", notification must now be under a licensed electrical contractor not just a licensed electrician.
  • If a homeowner does the work (DIY) they need a notification (permit) and the ESA inspects the work (service, rough and final) and "signs off".
If the homeowner pulls the ESA notification they must be an adult living in the house and they must do the work with only other people living in the house, they cannot (by the rules) then sub the work to an electrician, handyman, buddy, hack, drunkard, whatever. Service inspection is if a new service is part of the deal, if not rough and final only. All this is in the context of work/changes being done, by all means an electrician can look stuff over and say if it is bad or good but it is not signing off on anything.

Building inspectors etc. do not inspect electrical or the other way but there can be some overlap like wired fire alarms etc.
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Sounds right. I have the ESA come in quarterly to check on our maintenance work etc. I feel like there is likely more enforcement tools against businesses then homeowners. It would be pretty easy for the building inspector to ask for an electrical inspection the same way I had to provide documentation from an engineer for the load bearing wall I took out. I wonder why they don't ask for one.

Now that you mention it he did ask me about wired fire-alarms which I decided on the spot that I wouldn't have.
 
Matt Rain said:
What are you men doing to my thread

jk, carry on
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Welcome to GTAM - in a few short moments it will be about Covid/economy, freedom and politics. If this was the summer it would have devolved into oil, waving, high prices at dealerships and Harley's.

Not sure if there are job boards for this type of industry. I know in the landscape industry for example, there are multiple job boards specifically oriented to it which really helps the searching.
 
Happy to report that I will be making the jump to the moto industry next month. 😎 Not as a mechanic or apprentice - I'll be doing something very much aligned with my experience and skillset. More room to grow too, I think.

And it all happened thanks to this thread. 🙏

Can't wait to get started!

(The place isn't a forum sponsor so I won't name it.)
 
Matt Rain said:
Happy to report that I will be making the jump to the moto industry next month. 😎 Not as a mechanic or apprentice - I'll be doing something very much aligned with my experience and skillset. More room to grow too, I think.

And it all happened thanks to this thread. 🙏

Can't wait to get started!

(The place isn't a forum sponsor so I won't name it.)
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Good news, congrats.
 
Matt Rain said:
Happy to report that I will be making the jump to the moto industry next month. 😎 Not as a mechanic or apprentice - I'll be doing something very much aligned with my experience and skillset. More room to grow too, I think.

And it all happened thanks to this thread. 🙏

Can't wait to get started!

(The place isn't a forum sponsor so I won't name it.)
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That's awesome! Congrats on making the leap and hope that things work out well for you.
 
Matt Rain said:
Happy to report that I will be making the jump to the moto industry next month. 😎 Not as a mechanic or apprentice - I'll be doing something very much aligned with my experience and skillset. More room to grow too, I think.

And it all happened thanks to this thread. 🙏

Can't wait to get started!

(The place isn't a forum sponsor so I won't name it.)
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Congrats

More importantly, you can get us discounts ya? ;)
 
Matt Rain said:
Happy to report that I will be making the jump to the moto industry next month. 😎 Not as a mechanic or apprentice - I'll be doing something very much aligned with my experience and skillset. More room to grow too, I think.

And it all happened thanks to this thread. 🙏

Can't wait to get started!

(The place isn't a forum sponsor so I won't name it.)
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Good stuff congrats! Hope it goes well and you enjoy the new career!

Keep us posted, become a forum sponsor, and give us discounts!
 
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