[timmay]

Now i'm a rookie AND a student. Yes. i got my foot into the door of a good shop. i start in a couple week.
Oh the big leap. Leaving my comfy chair and hum of the cpu for the ever changing and new challenges of an hvac career.

ok... so as a rook what can i expect. Any crazy rituals like cross the equator in the navy? Or just some good solid red blooded american WORK!!!!

 

[infwsdm]

ok... so as a rook what can i expect.

You can move forward, backward, and side to side. No diags. though......and you can't move like a horsey either

No get your a$$ away from the TV, Computer, AND those damn video games and go do some work!!

And when you show up for work, keep your trap shut and your eyes and ears open.


and ahhhh good luck

 

[11575]

Dress like you are their to work. Go in shaven showered with the proper clothes ie. no baggei pants, shirt. Bring a lunch. act like a profesional and peaple will treat you that way.

 

[3421]

If someone ask you to go get the skyhook don't fall for it !

Good Luck with your new career!

 

[timmay]

Dress like you are their to work. Go in shaven showered with the proper clothes ie. no baggei pants, shirt. Bring a lunch. act like a profesional and peaple will treat you that way.

Oh i know how to dress... this is a career change... not my first step into the work force. i'm trading in a cube and upper managment nags for hvac.

 

[ice machine undertaker]

The Good Lord gave each of us two eyes, two ears and one mouth.

Use them proportionately!!!

Fred

 

[Workhorse]

If you see something you don't understand ask right then. Don't be afraid to ask any stupid questions because there is none. Good Luck with the change.

Oh by the way, take lots of water. Leave the sodas at home. It gets hot up on those roofs and attics and you need to keep hydrated.

 

[mo-flo]

you will always be learning,so you are still a student......................metric pipe wrench or duct stretcher?good luck and have fun while you are at it......remember every where you will go will be either hot or cold inside as well as outside.....usually they are both the same...that's why you are there!

 

[amickracing]

The Good Lord gave each of us two eyes, two ears and one mouth.

Use them proportionately!!!

Fred

Eeeps! Don't say that! We have 10 fingers.. that'd be some long posts to wade through.

I'm far from anything that resembles and old hand in this trade (or any for that matter), but here's my advice. Be willing to learn, try new ways (if you're set in some of your own), listen to what people have to say no matter how weird it may sound, and enjoy every second of what you are doing in some way.

 

[midhvac]

Good luck Timmay! Let us all know how it's going. And, oh yeah, if you wear really big long ear rings with tassels, don't bend over too close to the 220 volt contactor

 

[i_got_ideas]

One the others forgot, keep coming here.

I found this place as a rookie and it helped a lot. I have impressed others at work with knowledge I've gained here, heck, I've taught some of the senior techs some stuff I picked up here.



Good luck buddy, your head is going to spin from learning so much in this first year, but that's the joy of it.

 

[Edmund Forsthe]

now the skyhook thing unless you can come back with a heavy lift helicopter

 

[R12rules]

Dont forget the "bucket of magnetism". Or the left handed moneky wrench.
They actually make a "left handed Crescent wrench".
A dear friend was initiated into the phone company with that errand. He wised up to their joke and found a supplier to order it from.
When it arrived, the supervisor screamed; Who in the hell ordered this "Left-Handed Wrench"???"

When my buddy explained who sent him to fetch one, the super took some special action....
hence the end of the pranks on my friend.

Oh, they also sent him for a "bucket of dial-tone".
And THAT one he did fall for.

Read thru Tips & Tricks of the trade.

Read thru; Ten Most Important Things. Or somethig like that title.


Do you know what you assignment will be like?

Service, install ?
Comm or resi?
Or .... are you joining The Big Boys.... Commercial Refrigeration Service....?

 

[timmay]

The company handles residential service, installs and new construction. Also commercial refrigeration. I'm starting in with the tried and true PMs and then upward and onward

 

[stlhvac]

Hi,
I am currently in tech school and was wondering how much I can expect to make out of school.

 

[Shophound]

ok... so as a rook what can i expect. Any crazy rituals like cross the equator in the navy? Or just some good solid red blooded american WORK!!!!

If you're a Shellback, you're golden. If you're still a Polliwog, look out!

When I was in the Nav the MMOW sent me to the fire room for a BT punch. Up to that time all the rest of the gang in my engine room had tried to get me to go for all the usual rookie gags, such as skyhooks, bucket of gland seal, prop wash, sea chest keys, etc. Didn't fall for it. A "BT punch" about three in the morning while standing the midwatch with only two weeks aboard fresh out of "A" School sounded legit. Yeah, it was legit all right. KA BOOM! Learned quick what deckplates tasted like.

Go knock 'em dead. You've been liberated from the cubes to get your fingernails dirty. PM's are excellent for learning equipment. Live and breath that stuff. Learn sequence of operations, stick your gauges and type k thermocouples on and get that superheat/subcooling thing down to an art form. Be such a person that the senior techs like you and don't mind clueing you in to a few trade secrets now and then.
And know you've picked a great trade. Hard ass red blooded American work, for sure, but it rocks. I know people with degrees on their walls out the yingyang and they feel like they do nothing tangible all day, though their days are busy as hell. We can be busy as hell and have a busload of stuff that's tangible about what we did!

 

[Shophound]

Hi,
I am currently in tech school and was wondering how much I can expect to make out of school.

What you earn once you get a job should be fairly low on your list of priorities until you get good and seasoned. Your first task is to get a job in HVAC and gain the confidence of your boss so he feels he won't have to wait long for you to make him more money than he spends on you.

If your boss tells you to check the static pressure on the service van's AM radio, do it.

 

[dragonfyre]

Man are you lucky I still have 8 mos. of school left and it is not going fast enough for me.I have been doing my other job so long it is no longer a challenge,it does not make me think at all.Where did/are you going to school.at least by the time winter rolls around I will be finished with heat,hopefully I can hook up with a company then till April when I graduate and am certified,because AC season shouldnt kick in yet.