How can an electrical contractor with 6 years of military(air force) experience and an associates degree in Mechanical & Electrical technology expect to earn

(I know the economy is bad, but what if it wasnt?)

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I’m a licensed electrical contractor in the phoenix area. We are headed into a slow time and I really need to keep my people busy. If anyone knows of postings where I can find invitations to bid on electrical work, or places where people with construction projects post want ads for electricians, I would like to know. We do free in home estimates, and we guarantee we will beat any licensed electricians written estimate by at least 5%! Let me know if anybody has any good advertising ideas for me. Thanks!
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I know a friend who has a parent who’s being billed for a second surgery.

The first surgery was to put a ***** in to piece together the bones of a broken arm, BUT the surgeon put in the wrong size *****. Thus, the second surgery became necessary to take out the original ***** and put the one of correct size in place of it.

It’s basically medical malpractice. It doesn’t seem right that the family should have to pay for something that was totally preventable and 100% the fault of the surgical team. I mean, if they cut something wrong or whatever then it would have been fine because it’s probably in the fine print of the consent form for the surgery, but putting in the wrong size *****?? I mean… if construction workers did that with houses or pipes… or electricians used the wrong wires, people who suffered undered them shouldn’t have to pay for their mistakes.

This family does not have health insurance so they’re paying a lot out of their own pockets (yes, I already know it was dumb of them not to have it).

Oh, and the parents run a restaurant together. The business DEPENDS on both parents. It would not survive long without both of them working. So while recovering from the second surgery, he was out for about an extra week (by company policy) during which the mom had difficulty running the place herself. If there wasn’t a second surgery, they would have been a bit better off economically.

It’s been about half a year since this surgery took place, but could they sue or is there a billing error with this situation? Should they just pay everything?

Any law students or preferably experienced laywers who have a say about this?

(Please don’t give me advice on this if you don’t have concrete information or a personal experience- I don’t need a sympathetic opinion, I need helpful advice)

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My friend abroad is in electrical business. He is interested in how it’s done in the US. I recommended him to go ahead and try to pass the Electrical Contractor Exam. However, I’m not sure if he can do it being a foreign national. Please advice if you know something.
He doesn’t have an immigrant status and is not going to seek it. He’s just a foreign citizen seeking to pass the exam.

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My parents are renovating an old house. They have built a new extension and the electrician has wired that first. The problem is that he has installed Cat 5 cabling there. He says it’s a lot of work now to change it to Cat 6. He is about to install the network in the rest of the house (part of same network) but I am wondering if he can use Cat 6 there as we will have almost all of our devices there (PCs, NAS, Media servers). I would like to have Cat 6 for streaming HD content and for fast reliable file transfer. So as far as I can see there are three options:

(a) Forget about Cat 6 and use Cat 5 cabling all over the house (not great for HD content/file transfer) but I know it will work properly

(b) Have Cat 5 in the extension and Cat 6 in the rest of the house (connected on the same network). I am wondering if there would be a compatability problem with this setup. (i.e. Could the Cat 5 section bring down the entire network to 100Mbps? For example, if two devices are connected in the Cat 6 section can they still make use of the 1000Mbps speed? – I know that if one device is in the Cat 6 section and the other is in the Cat 5 you will only get 100Mbps between them – I wouldn’t mind that a long as I had 1000Mbps between NAS and media server in the Cat 6 section.

(c) The third option is to just forget about the Cat 5 section in the extension (i.e. leave it redundant ,it’s not a big area – Kitchen, dining room, bedroom upstairs) and install the Cat 6 cabling in the rest of the house (large area). If we need to extend the network to the extension we can use wireless. In this setup the Cat 6 network would not have any connection to the redundant Cat 5 network.

So really, my question is: Which option should we go for?

You might think “Get the electrician to take out the Cat 5 and install Cat 6 but my parents aren’t too worried about it and the guy is old so I don’t want to ask him to do that. :@

Thanks in advance!

cmos1981

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