electrician

You could have an electrician identify circuits and start throwing circuit breaker switches to achieve the same result?

That's well below what will be sending anyone to the electrician to get three phase power in their bedroom.

My uncle was an electrician, and he fixed that power supply a dozen times or so.

I would want to get an electrician to look (and likely fix) at a failure within a day).

Plus, I actually liked the physical aspects better; one of my two backup plans was to become an electrician.

This is not true of the average plumber, electrician or waiter.

And that's just the hardware; not the electrician required to connect it all or the time I would spend configuring everything.

I don't ordinarily think of myself as that, but when I was an electrician, I used to construct things, build things.

My brother's friend, an electrician from India, worked in singapore.

Because of local regulations I need a plumber (and electrician, etc) to vet all the work performed, but not necessarily perform that work.

What I do has a lot more in common with what a plumber or an electrician does than with what Taylor Swift does.

Like my roofing contractor or my unionized electrician.

You don't expect every electrician to be able to fix a motherboard but you expect any electrician to know "domestic electrical installation 101".

> You don't expect every electrician to be able to fix a motherboard but you expect any electrician to know "domestic electrical installation 101".

Just like the typical plumber or electrician, most programming is not "new products".

The full quote is: "If the rationale for licensing an electrician is to protect public safety, it is difficult to see what rationale supports licensing travel guides." Moreover, the assumptions they're making are charitable.