Day January 27, 2026

Ask ten electricians what skills matter most and you'll get eleven different answers. One will tell you it's all about speed. Another insists it's tool handling. Someone else swears it's knowing the regs backwards. Here's the thing: they're all missing the point. Essential skills sounds like a nice tidy checklist you can tick off and call yourself competent. But electrical work doesn't work that way. You can't separate safe isolation from fault diagnosis, or installation quality from testing competence. They're interconnected. Miss one and the others become meaningless, or worse, dangerous.