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	Subject - AZ apprentice spakus Hi, I am a new board member and 1st-time poster. I am 46 and am 3500 hrs into my electrical apprenticeship. After spending many years in the Army and in underground copper mines I moved to CA and worked with some dotcoms maintaining servers, routers, switches, general IT stuff, etc. (computers are a hobby/side business). After the dotcom crash my wife and I moved to CT where after being out of work for 8 months I decided to pursue this trade. I am enrolled with the state and have been using Education Direct to fulfill my 750 hrs of education required by this state. I now want to move to AZ and continue to in this field. Does anyone know what AZ requires, and if I could transfer current experience/training? Thanks for any and all help Steve Scott Vickrey Steve, check out this site about licensing in Arizona. http://www.contractors-license.org/az/az.htm Ryan_J My brother is an electrician in Arizona. He got his journeyan's license here in Utah where we have sringent requirements. When he moved to AZ a couple years ago, he found that they have no licensing laws or anything. He was very frustrated when every person he hired was "A Journeyman", yet didn't know Ohm's law, couldn't bend a stick of pipe, and couldn't read a plan. spakus Thanks for the info and replies. Ryan, your brothers situation sounds frustrating...I have worked with two contractors here in CT and I can't see how the journeymen I work with passed the exam. I have gotten to the point where I will not ask them any "technical" questions, I use these forums and books to research questions that come up during the day. Hopefully when I arrive in AZ I will be able to find a competent company to work with. Steve