Yawn. The story that starts the article (that tells the same story about the trades that all of these articles tell) takes place in Connecticut, but in NYC, homeowners aren’t allowed to touch anything electrical behind a wall. You have to pay an electrician to do the work. Meanwhile, every year on the news there are people camping out for electrician apprenticeships (theres a shortage in the city as far as I can understand) and most get turned away.

Anyways, the funny thing is that if you’re college educated and willing to take things step by step, and buy a good set of tools, and read your local municipalities code (the most recent copy of electrical code in nyc is something like 180 dollars instead of being freely available, dunno if its like that elsewhere), you can probably do your own repairs, arrange a schedule to have anyone who needs to jackhammer and run a connection somewhere on your property, have the electric company run whatevers needed wherever and have an inspector look over the work to either certify it or tell you whats wrong.