Logging Your Hours

What a board counts as supervised on-the-job time, who may sign your experience affidavit, and how to document hours nobody put on a W-2.

Logging Your Hours August 20, 2026 Experience Affidavit: Who Can Sign It and Who Cannot California names six people who may sign it. Washington accepts one. Nevada bars your relatives. The exact wording each board rejects, quoted from the forms. 12 min read
Logging Your Hours August 19, 2026 What Counts as an OJT Hour, and Who Watches Texas lets an apprentice work unwatched for stretches. California bars a second trainee outright. Both call it supervised. 12 min read

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Ruth Calloway is a researcher and editor who turns licensing paperwork into procedure a person can follow. Her material is documents: state board rulebooks, federal regulations, and the application forms themselves, read in the original and quoted with the section number attached. She holds no trade license and does not practice law. She will not tell you what a board will decide — only what its published rules say, with a link so you can read the wording yourself.

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