With the explosion of global trade and telecommunications, multilingual deal makers are needed. Average for 1996. Now that commercial builders are back from the doldrums, the folks who actually put up the office parks and shopping malls have more work than they can handle. Qualified electrical workers are especially in demand, partly because wiring a building is a different ballgame now. Most not only need to know the red wire from the blue one but must have some degree of expertise in computers because of the huge demand computers throughout a building place on an electrical system.
Most buildings now have computerized lighting systems, automated locks and antitheft devices, too.
In some cases, the wirer is also responsible for the upkeep of a building's entire electrical system. Five years in an apprenticeship program, working with journeymen in the field. Computer control maker. Automated equipment is doing the manufacturing in many factories now. This person builds the equipment.