How do I become an electrician?

I would like to know how to become an Apprentice Electrician in Tasmania, pay rates and government incentives?

• Im a 27 year old female who wants to drastically change her career to become an electrician. As i have recently gone through a divorce and moved to start fresh in tasmaina.i want a career i can earn good money in and not be stuck behind a computer or need even more uni training as i've been there for 6 yrs. Thing i would love to know are: *pay grades through apprenticeships in tassie? *pay after you finish apprenticeship? *how long the apprenticeship is for and if you can do this quicker? *how do you go about getting an apprenticeship? *any gov. incentives for being over 25 and/or female? *any gov. incentives at all and if so how do you find and get them? and any other relevant information or websites, phone number ect to get as much info as as possible. thanks irene

• Answer:

  you might want to narrow down what kind of electrician you want to be. you don't want to be dragging around ladders pulling wire/bending conduit for the rest of your life. You will be old, less than wealthy and crippled. I don't live there but you might want to be an industrial electrician, controlling electrical flow from a laptop and a wireless connection, sipping coffee the whole way. Rather than working physically.