Hanging up my toolbox

[bazza2541]

14 years still a pup worked out its been 20 years since i started...................................................ferk i feel old now wheres the beer.!

I started my apprenticeship in 88, how long ago is that? Feels like its last century its so long ago.

 

[ecclescake]

I started my apprenticeship in 88, how long ago is that? Feels like its last century its so long ago.

21 same as me I started the end of june 1988 I can still remember my first day.

 

[bazza2541]

I can't remember the first day, but I can remember the last, I was working in a clothing factory and the foreskin got a call from my Ma to say I had got my AM2 results in the post, he had me stripped and tied naked upside down onto the forks of a forklift, then brought out four old biddies from the factory to smear cutting compound all over me. Finished up with him throwing a bucket of filings from the threader over me.
Ahhhhhhhh the joys. I still hate him.

 

[ecclescake]

I remember my last day your card is the post get your tools you've got two weeks notice March 92 zero work about 6 months on the dole I loved it all my mates were students at the time never played so much golf in my life.

 

[ash.ns]

All I can say is I am very new just few months back got my 17th edition i am strugling definatly but youhave the golden upper hand mate you have EXPERIENCE. belive me time will change just hangon a bit more. And top of it i just join this site. just dont give up hope.

 

[baldsparkies]

Started my apprenticeship 1971
Qualified out under fourteenth edition
Wow thats 38 years as a sparks
Still enjoy it
Still learning from it
Wouldnt change for any other trade (Well maybe hairdressing)

 

[ash.ns]

thats what i wanted to hear from you, belive it i was really upset that I have taken a wrong decission of being a sparki as i told you i have just got my 17th edition now u gave me some hope. thankyou

 

[scotsparky]

Bald you were finnishing your first year when i was being born !!!!!!!!!!!!!! and am now 37.

 

[jellen]

Started my apprenticeship 1971
Qualified out under fourteenth edition
Wow thats 38 years as a sparks
Still enjoy it
Still learning from it
Wouldnt change for any other trade (Well maybe hairdressing)

you started 9 years before i was born, now thats what i call time sereved...hats off to you sir.

 

[Andy Smith]

Well as the OP i was gona hang my tool box up but now realize that i love this trade....will do some PT work till it all comes good again

Glade you decided to hang around ! ill have a cup of tea Too, hear you make a mean brew, cheers

 

[jellen]

Glade you decided to hang around ! ill have a cup of tea Too, hear you make a mean brew, cheers

One lump or two

 

[Dannyg83]

never realised electricity was discovered that far back , lol

 

[Doomed]

I have been doing general maintenance for 20ish years, with a specilisation in electonics, recently decided to get some sparky qualifications (I have done so much work assisting on installs I thought I may as well qualify), just got my 2330 level 2, but after the tone of this thread am wondering if its worth continuing....

 

[Plan]

Keep the faith been out of work for two months now have the pick of job offers and are turning them down cos I've got the job that pays right and is right for me.
The jobs are there you've just got to keep plugging away and have that bit of luck
Ps mines a coffee no sugar, crap I'm now the new boy, what do you want from the shop?

 

[baldsparkies]

I was offered a job in the states at a prison, they wanted me to service the electric chairs. I turned the job down, damn things were a death trap.