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[Pete999]

As the title suggests, what constitutes an Electrical Apprenticeship in this modern world we live in today?
There have been a few threads lately "Ive done this course or that course, how do I get an Apprenticeship?"
Well to be honest with you I would like to know, not because I want one at 71 and fter more years than I want to remember after completing mine, I would like to know, to be able to offer some advice to the Lads and Lasses who are aspiring to become Electricians, not Domestic Installers, but real Electricians, I would like to help people, but when you are faced with people in their 20s 30s asking about Apprenticeships, it seems alien to to me, maybe I should give up, cus it's baffeling how to answer.

 

[telectrix]

agree pete. so many courses nowadays and it don't help when they change all the numbers. e.g. 2391 becomes 2394/5 then 2391 again.bit like roulette. pick a number and hope it's a winner.

 

[Jim90]

I guess carrying out an apprenticeship was deemed as something you did when you left school, obviously it’s a way of learning while working in the given trade, regardless of age. The bad thing is with starting later, is the wage. £150 a week went a long way living with parents and to only run a mo-ped!
I guess the only other way is becoming an improver and picking up a few courses.

I’m time served and started my apprenticeship at 16. I’m now 27. Been in the trade all my working life. I found a large commercial company to sponser my apprenticeship and the rest is history!

 

[JAWS]

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[Pete999]

My apprenticeship was what they called then a labourer where mixing up for a gang 6 plasterers 5 days a week sometimes 10hr days. Was the hardest yrs work I've ever done.

Nt really an Apprenticeship Massive1

 

[JAWS]

Nt really an Apprenticeship Massive1

Yeah good point I'll get my jacket I think.

 

[Pete999]

Yeah good point I'll get my jacket I think.

No disrespect meat mate, just voicing my opinion.

 

[JAWS]

No disrespect meat mate, just voicing my opinion.

Don't be silly Pete I didn't take your post like that at all. I tend to jump in sometimes without fully thinking my post through.

 

[Dave OCD]

My son is doing an apprenticeship with me as previously mentioned on here. It's 42 months/3 and a half years now, 4 days a week working with me and 1 day a week at college ['Day Release']. The final qualification on completion I believe is a level 3 NVQ, lots of tests along the way and compilation of a portfolio demonstrating evidence [photos, write ups] of different types of work carried out. There's a fair emphasis on H&S as you'd expect nowadays.

 

[freddo]

There's a fair emphasis on H&S as you'd expect nowadays.

That appears to be all that is being taught, rather than more useful things like how to bend conduit and how to strip/gland/terminate cables etc.

 

[ashrow]

I did mine like Dave OCD son is doing, day release 1 day per week term time (that was 30 years ago as a "yts" apprentice)
I hope that's how apprenticeship are done still (anyone can get a qualification/pass a course but on the job training i feel is the experience that really makes the tradesman

 

[Dave OCD]

That appears to be all that is being taught, rather than more useful things like how to bend conduit and how to strip/gland/terminate cables etc.

Exactly Freddo, but I'm doing my best to educate him in the useful stuff.

 

[MJPD29]

I left school and went straight out working for a company 25 miles from my house. Cost me more to get to work than i earned every week £40, and this was in 2008) and to be honest I hated most of it but it was worth sticking out even through the days were I was stuck in the attic of a hospital surrounded by nothing but fibreglass insulation and try to to hear what orders were being barked at me from the all knowing sparks down below

 

[KEV 1 N]

I left school and went straight out working for a company 25 miles from my house. Cost me more to get to work than i earned every week £40, and this was in 2008) and to be honest I hated most of it but it was worth sticking out even through the days were I was stuck in the attic of a hospital surrounded by nothing but fibreglass insulation and try to to hear what orders were being barked at me from the all knowing sparks down below

That reminds me of my house bashing days when I had to go in the loft, an earth rod would be poked up the hole where the light was and this saved having to disturb the fibre glass. You you soon learnt not to stand over the light!

 

[7029 dave]

I understand how Pete feels,when folk are lets say mature learners.I started at 15 as Saturday boy,school holidays etc, then left school at 16 started the full apprenticeship.

But moving on many decades lol , just completed my gas safe at the age of 53. This is the new world/way. Lets face it we all got to work till we drop, so age don't really matter.