OT: Apprenticeships

Im kind of stuck between electrics and carpentry, they both sound like that would appeal to me but obviously not having experiance with either i think your right and ill probably benifit from working on site to get a little taste of each.

I think last time i was in the job center they had alot of general labouring advertisements, hopefully some of them wont mind if you havent got any on site experiance.

I have been abit put off by the chance i might have to start from nvq level

1 -2-3-4 part time or even full time without actually being employed in the trade, which looks like it would take a decade to complete without the actual experiance. I'd much rather get the experiance working in the trade, as a mate, apprentice or whatever, even if it is badly paid and im teaboy and cleaning up the saw dust, least it would give me the chance to learn on the job for a few years and then get the qualifications. But im not sure how the courses are arranged and what is teh best route, if i could get some experiance first hand which is what i want and then do some short intensive courses i would. Has anyone got any advice on this?

Im sure if i went to a college they would just tell me to start from square one then do 4 more 1-2 year courses after that as its alot of money for them.

john

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I think the army per sieu is only an option if you consider it as a serious career option, rather than a reactive decision because nothing else lines up.

My father was in the RAF for 28 years and it gave him a trade (electrical engineering as it happens). I vowed I would never join the armed services because of that - he didn't leave the RAF until I was

20 years old and was never there when I was growing up. I blamed the RAF for taking my father away from me. It's not for those with family commitments, in my opinion. Though I do know others with families have made it a great success.

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I think you've also got to remember that the bottom line of the forces is killing people and possibly getting killed. Each time troops are sent to war zones we hear sob stories of servicepeople who're stunned at what they're exposed to. The forces' advertising doesn't help: they've generally focussed on the travel, training, playing with big boys' toys etc. I await with glee seeing lawyers with dorsal fins suing them for causing death or disability to their clients the way they've done for tobacco and are currently doing for fast food :-)

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My guess is as long as you've got 2 arms, 2 legs and a head with some sense in it and you're prepared to use the above you'll be welcome.

Yup - colleges make money by: (a) selling courses to students straight out of school who are generally majoring in sex, drugs and rock'n'roll with a minor course in whatever it is they're enrolled in :-) (b) selling training to industry, which expects serious value for money e.g. plumber to CORGI-registered gas fitter in 8 days.

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Understood. And it doesn't help with a war lord residing in Downing Street. At least with the Falklands 20+ years ago Argentina weren't declaring war globally, but with Al Queda we don't know where they might pop up - it only takes one person to release something noxious on the London Underground for example.

And not forgetting that thanks to Bliar the people of the UK are more exposed to terrorism than before, so the killing fields are not necessarily directly linked to whether you are in the war theatre or not.

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I would suggest that you have nothing to lose by contacting a college and asking if you could speak with one of the senior lecturers.

I did that about 18 months ago when I was considering taking my C&G2381 certification. I spoke (on the telephone) to the chap who runs the electrical engineering section at the college - he was head of department. I found his input to be quite valuable in so far that it explained a few things for me.

I now have my C&G2381 certificate. Doesn't make me an electrician, but at least I have some idea of what it's all about (and attending the training course taught me that there was an awful lot I didn't know about electricity installation despite having played with it for over

30 years!).

At the end of the day the world is out there and it's up to you to be part of it - it ain't gonna happen if you sit on your butt (but I know you know that or you wouldn't be asking here ;)). I've never had a problem knocking on people's doors and asking for a chance - the worst they can do is say no. But you would be very surprised at the number of people who want to say yes!

I went from hardware support to applications support and then on to application software development due to my door-knocking ability. These were not routine career advances.

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