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I only did HVAC work, mostly oil burners, when I started in this trade. Many of my customers were shocked when they found out I didn't have an electricians' license.

I had the certificate framed and it's hanging on the wall.

If it makes you feel any better, I recently purchased a house with the intention of a flip or rental and when it got down to installing light fixtures, I realized that the laundry room light had a hot neutral. Upon further investigation, the switch in the laundry room also switched a hot neutral in the dining room on the opposite side of the house. I will be baffled until death, but the lights in both rooms actually worked despite having a constant 120v on one wire and a switched 120v on the other… I'm actually getting diabeetus just thinking about this again

Shocked you say? I'm going to need to see a license for that pun.

I mean they only cost like a dollar 😀

Thanks. Years ago, I met a chimney guy who, after not getting paid after the job was done, started to install a piece of plate glass halfway up the chimney. If he didn’t get paid, he left it there. The boiler guy installthe new boiler. The chimney, of course, wouldn’t draft. The homeowner would call him demanding that he return. He would insist on getting paid first, which every homeowner did. He’d then go back to the job, climb up on the roof and drop a brick down the chimney.

Sorry to derail further, but I just sat down and watched the second half of the Bulding of the Eiffel Tower on television. As I understand it, a top notch riveter could install 1700 rivets per day (up to 12 hours). There are two and a half million rivets in the tower. Riveters were paid seventy cents per hour, almost double what riveters received at other less glamorous sites. They used sixty-six tons of paint when they repainted the tower for the nineteenth time recently. I apologize for the almost worthless information.