Well It’s a Start…

Welcome to the National Tradesman website. Take a look around and tell me what you think.

My name is JD. I have been a licensed master electrician in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for thirty years now. I have worked for family, small contractors, large contractors, municipals, and have been self-employed. I have also been certified as a grade 4T water treatment operator and a grade 6C(WI) wastewater treatment operator and have owned and managed tenement property for over twenty years. I am familiar with all the building trades. I am a US Navy veteran.

My experience in and around the professional trades is well rounded beginning as a kid growing up in a combination household/small business where at times I would help my dad who taught me the electrical trade. It was mostly doing tasks like sorting a mixed-up mess of screws, devices, and hardware, or “rats nests” as he referred to them, down in the garage below the house which was his first electrical shop.

Now and then I would sweep floors on some of his jobs. I can still vaguely remember my first smell of freshly-sawed lumber combined with the smell of kerosene from a noisy salamander heater the contractor had on the job site. I was probably around ten years old. It is one of those clouded memories and it was cold but I do recall hot chocolate for me at break-time during which I listened to all the friendly banter flying back and forth between the different trade workers. It was friendship among grown-ups I had not seen before. And so it is I remembered that day.

I would like to emphasize the spirit of that first memory of trade camaraderie and the importance of maintaining it in this day and age. It is possible still. So in between the seriousness of learning, along with society compelling us to keep up with all the changing technologies, safety practices and other factors that mingle together in the demands to improve, we must remember that as tradesmen and tradeswomen we are the ones working together as a team to build this world and we should try to have a little fun while doing it.

So if you are a vocational student of a particular trade discipline, have fun and try to grasp the enthusiasm to learn. Not only about the trade you have chosen but also the other trades as well. Again we are all a team and shared knowledge makes both successful individuals and successful companies. My position also is that the technical trade skills have become increasingly valuable and will continue to do so in the future as the demand for skilled trade professionals increases alongside demanding infrastructure and housing growth. The more you can pack away in your resume of knowledge about other trades and other technologies, the better off you will be. For instance just on this website you can learn across the trades as you check out glossary terms that apply to your own trade and compare definition similarities and differences among the them. Compiling technical knowledge and skills is where it’s at and I hope you are blessed with motivation to do so.

Hey I’m the only person administering National Tradesman. You can expect that it may take time for me to deploy features and information but when I do, they will be useful to students and apprentices, as well as licensed or engineered professionals.

So that’s it for now. Maybe see you at break time somewhere and thanks for giving National Tradesman a look over. Keep the faith.

JD
NationalTradesman.com

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