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My CV is a hard sell. I started out painting and decorating, carpentry was a hobby. Got better at decorating and started to offer carpentry to customers. Picked up more carpentry work and customers would ask for electrical work and plumbing too. Reached the dizzy heights of bathroom and kitchen fitting which can include all the trades if you work alone. Part P came along and suddenly I couldn't do garden wiring, bathrooms, kitchens without a quals. So I stopped doing larger electrical works and stuck to extending circuits in allowed locations, replacing broken fittings etc. Whilst graduating to making custom free-standing furniture and specialising in restoration of sash windows. Last year I decided to do the exams for part P and BS7671 in order to gain a better understanding of the regs and potentially carry out more electrical work.
So strictly speaking I'm not a sparks, I have a fair amount of relevant experience and the qualifications, but an apprenticed and experienced sparks of my age will have a load more experience (and sometimes a lot more bad habits). I respect the opinion of more experienced electricians but I now understand what they're on about too, it's a big subject so only time served will really earn a deep knowledge of it.