About Becoming-an-Electrician.com (Riley Weller)

Welcome to Becoming-an-Electrician.com

My name is Riley Weller, and I’ll be your host throughout this site.

I was a residential and commercial Electrician here in Canada for almost 10 years, and I’ll tell you what, it wasn’t an easy road to become a journeyman electrician!

My goal with this website is to educate apprentice electricians in Canada, and make the process easier to become an electrician!

I want to share both the hands-on and theory aspects of the electrical trade.

I’ve had the privilege of working with some awesome electricians over the years, where I’ve learned many of their tricks, that should never be forgotten!

My electrical experience is based out of Canada. I’m aware that each province (and state, if you’re in the USA) may even have their own preferences, so keep that in mind through the articles and videos, but I have done both Commercial and Residential electrical, with more time on the commercial side of things.

Where to Get FREE Electrician Training?

Becoming-an-Electrician.com has created many free trainings and resources for apprentice electricians!

Simply sign-up with your email to receive the free training, at no cost to you!

• Splicing Wires Series - (Free Training)
• Roughing-In Series for Electricians - (Free Training)
• Electrical Theory: Resistive Circuits - (Free Training)
• 5 Tips to Be the Best Electrical Apprentice You Can Be - (eBook)

Making an Electrical Career

This website is aimed at ELECTRICAL APPRENTICES.

The first thing I want to tell you is that you can do it!

Your surroundings matter TREMENDOUSLY in your early years.

If you feel you are not being taught well, I highly encourage you to speak to your boss or find another company.  Once you find a good company, it makes all the difference in this industry to learn how to become an electrician.

Some companies provide power tools, two breaks, and some companies barely provide you with either!  (You really miss these things once they’re gone!)

Once you find people willing to teach you electrical, it is NIGHT AND DAY.

Also understand that electricians get paid different depending where you live. So if you really want to advance financially in your life as an electrician, you may have to do some out of town work, or even move to a city that has a higher hourly rate (but make sure the monthly living costs are worth it).

But.. be prepared, because it still isn’t easy learning all the fundamentals of the electrical trade.  Don’t stop asking questions!

I am not an expert electrician, or the best, but I always enjoyed teaching apprentice electricians the full electrical installation process, which is what I use this blog for!

To become a good electrician requires much reading.. as sometimes your boss or electrical teacher doesn’t explain things clear! So be careful of the information you’re told, as people are often rushed on jobsites, and accidents can happen easily, or you can be put in a dangerous situation (especially in the electrical world).

Becoming knowledgeable requires much of your own research through books, website articles, videos, and asking lots of questions on the jobsite!

Many times electrical companies tell you, “You’ll learn that at school”.. while school tells you, “You’ll learn that on the jobsite”.. 🤦‍♂️ (in other words.. figure it out yourself)..

So hopefully Becoming-an-Electrician.com gives you practical electrician learning that you’ll see on the jobsite, in a self-learning environment.

More About Riley: I’m Passionate for High-Quality Education..

About the same time of my electrical apprenticeship, I learned about beatmaking..

I became fascinated.. it was all I wanted to do with my time!

I started creating beatmaking tutorials, which lead into beatmaking courses, and today I mainly focus on my dedicated beatmaker training platform.

I even host my own beatmaking podcast, have worked with a GRAMMY-Nominated Artist, and am an official trainer for the music program I use (FL Studio)!

(But I still focus on this electrical blog quite often!)

Here’s a couple of my beats (from BEAT TAPES By GratuiTous Vol. 10).

I’ll Help You Learn to Become an Apprentice Electrician!

So am I no longer an electrician?

Well my goal was to get out of the trades. The life of trades is hard and very demanding! You have to be there on time each day, and I’m honestly not a morning person.. Sometimes the weather is really cold or really hot, and you’re often surrounded with bad attitudes causing so much stress in your life!

But to be 100% honest with you.. I was never a trades person..

I’ve always REALLY enjoyed computers, writing these blogs, and running online businesses! I’ve been able to help so many people around the world this way! So it was always a fight against what I enjoyed doing with my time..

Life is hard by it self.. so my goal was to figure out how to use my money from my electrical job to pursue my own endeavors..

I did electrical for around 10 years.. I acquired my hours, finished my schooling, and became a journeyman in Canada. The electrical world did me REALLY good.. I also learned TONS of life skills from experiences and people in the field.

I used the electrical trade to allow me to truly do what I want.. it took a lot of reading, practicing, saving money, and work! (Plus.. I have my electrical ticket to fall back if I ever need income, or if I need a break from the computer).

Three sayings that helped me through my electrical career:

One day at a time

Every day is new. It might feel hard today, but the time you come back and it’s often not as hard as you thought. Show up ready to work!

Go to work, collect, pay check, go home.

Your job is how you provide and learn skills. Many times co-workers want to hang out, or companies try to take advantage of you. Understand that work is for your benefit to reach your goals, and it’s okay to say “No”.

Slow and Steady Wins the Race (Who won the race? The tortoise, not the hare.) 

I hope my electrician content is that missing element for you to learn the electrical trade as an apprentice.

Always feel free to send me an email!

Two Valuable Articles:

• Recommended Tools for Apprentice Electricians
• Electrician’s Guide to Roughing In (it has like.. 40+ articles!)

My promise of this website is to keep it high-quality and to the point.

Never forget what it felt like when YOU didn’t know it.  Don’t treat your apprentices the same way your journeymen may have treated you.

I call this removing the Journeyman Mentality..

Riley !

P.S. Don’t miss my free electrician training!