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stabilo · 03-04-2013, 19:07

Hi Andy,

If you had no previous experience as a overhead installer (ie going up poles) you get buddied up for at least a week. You get a smart phone you use to get your jobs off. In order to get the completion recorded you need to do an Eclipse Test at the customers premise. I did my first drop wire with my buddy I think it should be priced up accordingly but its still only £25. Today was a bad morning (no jobs completed because of
bad routing/ no e side) the afternoon completed 2 with no problems and that was with an experienced engineer. In theory you can do 6 jobs a day if you are lucky. We haven't hit that lucky day yet! Your day starts around 6ish when you receive you jobs for the day on your phone and as I said before you may have to travel 60 odd miles to get there for 8. Its not the easiest way to make a living but every day is different and if you like people and doing a service type job it can be quite rewarding (mentally that is).

Apparently at Quinns they give you £60 a night for accommodation and food just to reply to Scubaboys comments.

03-04-2013, 19:07	#7
stabilo Inactive Join Date: Apr 2013 Posts: 5	Re: Kelly's BT Openreach Engineers Hi Andy, If you had no previous experience as a overhead installer (ie going up poles) you get buddied up for at least a week. You get a smart phone you use to get your jobs off. In order to get the completion recorded you need to do an Eclipse Test at the customers premise. I did my first drop wire with my buddy I think it should be priced up accordingly but its still only £25. Today was a bad morning (no jobs completed because of bad routing/ no e side) the afternoon completed 2 with no problems and that was with an experienced engineer. In theory you can do 6 jobs a day if you are lucky. We haven't hit that lucky day yet! Your day starts around 6ish when you receive you jobs for the day on your phone and as I said before you may have to travel 60 odd miles to get there for 8. Its not the easiest way to make a living but every day is different and if you like people and doing a service type job it can be quite rewarding (mentally that is). Apparently at Quinns they give you £60 a night for accommodation and food just to reply to Scubaboys comments.