Becoming and Installer
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On your Dish at your house.. Take it apart and rebuild it.. Training is a joke. On the job experience is the only way to learn. I have been to some of these so called training classed that get given by different companies.. Waste of time and in some cases (SBCA CERT) money.
Best thing to do is start out working for a company, Im not sure where you are in relations to Missoula but there is an RSP for Dish Network based there that you should look into that has offices in several states including Idaho.
This is a link to a website that carries most of the newspapers in Montana, do a classifieds search for satellite or click on the western link and then click on the missoulan paper wich is where the rsp is located at. They usually advertise about this time for installers to get them trained and ready for the fall and winter time.
Things that you should consider if you have never done this before.
(1) Sub contractors generaly have to pay for all of their own tools, vehicle, supplies, and insurance plus do the quarterly tax thing, however if you get on with a company like Dish then you dont pay anything out of pocket and you get an hourly wage plus benies.
(2) The hours are generaly long specialy if your a sub and you may have one day a week off but I hear that the money is good for those who are good, working inhouse you will have a set amount of days off each week.
(3) Doing this in the winter time in places where it gets frickin cold sucks because your not going to be moving much at all so your hands and feet will get cold, doing this in the rain sucks to so have a rain poncho on hand, then theres the summer heat wich even in your region can be hard so stay hydrated.
(4) You will be dealing with all sorts of pest's from insects to rats/mice, to dogs and cats and other wildlife and some are poisonous.
(5) Some places you have to go into are dank, dirty, smelly, filled with trash and feces and rotting things and thats just the front entry into the house, you will have to go into crawl spaces and attics wich very well will be alot worse or could be incredibly nice.
(6) Your customer can be a helping hand but above all else do not trust them, your there to do a job and nothing else, stay on target and do the job, dont engage in any conversation other than the one your supposed to have wich is about the system and the service and how to use both. Make sure you always look neat and clean, looking like you just rolled out of bed in the clothes you slept in and smelling like you live in a dumpster will really go against you.
Things that you should consider if you have never done this before.
(1) Sub contractors generaly have to pay for all of their own tools, vehicle, supplies, and insurance plus do the quarterly tax thing, however if you get on with a company like Dish then you dont pay anything out of pocket and you get an hourly wage plus benies.
(2) The hours are generaly long specialy if your a sub and you may have one day a week off but I hear that the money is good for those who are good, working inhouse you will have a set amount of days off each week.
(3) Doing this in the winter time in places where it gets frickin cold sucks because your not going to be moving much at all so your hands and feet will get cold, doing this in the rain sucks to so have a rain poncho on hand, then theres the summer heat wich even in your region can be hard so stay hydrated.
(4) You will be dealing with all sorts of pest's from insects to rats/mice, to dogs and cats and other wildlife and some are poisonous.
(5) Some places you have to go into are dank, dirty, smelly, filled with trash and feces and rotting things and thats just the front entry into the house, you will have to go into crawl spaces and attics wich very well will be alot worse or could be incredibly nice.
(6) Your customer can be a helping hand but above all else do not trust them, your there to do a job and nothing else, stay on target and do the job, dont engage in any conversation other than the one your supposed to have wich is about the system and the service and how to use both. Make sure you always look neat and clean, looking like you just rolled out of bed in the clothes you slept in and smelling like you live in a dumpster will really go against you.
