Some things are l received from books, and some things need to be l received through experience.
However when you learn a trade, you need to do both, then you have to learn by doing, however also read and read and learn as much as you can.
No matter what trade you want to follow, there is nothing more beneficial to the process than finding a mentor. A mentor can guide you through the practicality of the job, leading by example and giving you the experience you need to succeed. In the world of Heating and Air Conditioning, the tech is constantly evolving, so the workers need to evolve just as quickly. My mentor was an old, gruff person who called himself Ox, and was the sole landlord of an Heating and Air Conditioning maintenance shop. Ox didn’t do a lot of home calls anymore, and was looking to pass on his Heating and Air Conditioning wisdom and possibly his dealer to someone younger. I told him straight away that I was honored to labor for him, and I would do whatever I could to learn the Heating and Air Conditioning dealer his way. Ox was a person of few words, and provided myself and others multiple pieces of advice for learning the Heating and Air Conditioning trade – be on time, pay attention, and don’t ask to go home. I followed those multiple rules religiously, and over the course of weeks l received more and more about heating and cooling systems. After a while he provided myself and others an advance on our pay to sign up for the Heating and Air Conditioning certification program, which at that point would be a cake walk for me!