Time to give up?

[GJFR]

I'll give you my situation;

I've been at college since Sept, was laid off from my previous job around then. I'm 27 and simply trying to get a trade. I've been looking for any role as an apprentice for months upon months. Every week I spend a whole day phoning up through the JIB with a list of firms they supplied me, gone through the yellow pages, started looking around nationally as opposed to locally and tried the governments apprentice sites and services for the maturer student. With that I couldn't believe it when every service I phoned kept giving me numbers to another one and ended up with the last number being the first place I phoned which flat out refused to help me due to me not being one the "lost generation" (Spare me).

Even my own college flat out refused to help me due to my age.

Considering I'm on month 8 studying one day a week and done my exams and have another 2 years to go, is it really worth carrying on because quite frankly, it seems like a waste of time if you're older.

 

[Electricalserv]

I'll give you my situation;

I've been at college since Sept, was laid off from my previous job around then. I'm 27 and simply trying to get a trade. I've been looking for any role as an apprentice for months upon months. Every week I spend a whole day phoning up through the JIB with a list of firms they supplied me, gone through the yellow pages, started looking around nationally as opposed to locally and tried the governments apprentice sites and services for the maturer student. With that I couldn't believe it when every service I phoned kept giving me numbers to another one and ended up with the last number being the first place I phoned which flat out refused to help me due to me not being one the "lost generation" (Spare me).

Even my own college flat out refused to help me due to my age.

Considering I'm on month 8 studying one day a week and done my exams and have another 2 years to go, is it really worth carrying on because quite frankly, it seems like a waste of time if you're older.

Not just your age mate. Alot of younger lads can't f-all. Its hard mate. People have the money but they aren't spending it. Th bigger more established companies are getting all the work at the moment and the one man bands are really struggling.

 

[Paul.M]

Stick with it. When you qualify in 2 years time the work situation should be better. Battle on, keep sending your cv and calling companies up, you may fall lucky?

 

[rmc86uk]

There's people like yourself trying to get in the trade and electricians trying to get out because its that crap at the moment. The only thing I can suggest is try and get voluntary work somewhere one day a week or something. I would also write letters to company's rather than ring them because 99% of the time you will get a receptionist answer who doesn't know what's going off regarding taking people on or laying off!

If you throw the towel in now then your never going to achieve what you set out to do. At the end of your course you will maybe have a better chance at a job as long as the practical experience is there aswell. It is the worst time to get into a trade and its a shame but you can't give up!

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[millwall ken]

I'll give you my situation;

I've been at college since Sept, was laid off from my previous job around then. I'm 27 and simply trying to get a trade. I've been looking for any role as an apprentice for months upon months. Every week I spend a whole day phoning up through the JIB with a list of firms they supplied me, gone through the yellow pages, started looking around nationally as opposed to locally and tried the governments apprentice sites and services for the maturer student. With that I couldn't believe it when every service I phoned kept giving me numbers to another one and ended up with the last number being the first place I phoned which flat out refused to help me due to me not being one the "lost generation" (Spare me).

Even my own college flat out refused to help me due to my age.

Considering I'm on month 8 studying one day a week and done my exams and have another 2 years to go, is it really worth carrying on because quite frankly, it seems like a waste of time if you're older.

8 months??? Is that all? Fella, before I took the plunge and went to school to get my certs, I'd already worked as a sparks mate/sparkie for ten YEARS!!!!! Yet it took me over 150 applications just to land an electrical maintenance job. Mate, I can't even get on a firm in order to do my NVQ 3. So stop feeling sorry for yourself, double your efforts - and you WILL strike lucky soon. DON'T QUIT...

 

[bugsy]

Where are you based

 

[Adam W]

I agree with Ken - you need more determination than that otherwise you might as well give up now.
I couldn't get an apprenticeship when I was 17, 18, 19 because the emphasis at the time was on 'new deal' where you had to be over 25, so I left it until then, by which time the goalposts had been moved back to help school leavers.
I started at college when I was 26 and spent the last half of the first year phoning through every company in the phone book, local companies off the NICEIC website, sending off CVs or getting turned down, then starting again. It wasn't until the week after I had passed my first year exams that I got a start doing 2 weeks agency work (which nearly didn't happen because I didn't have any experience), which led to a couple more jobs and ended up being 7 months straight.
In your situation it would have been difficult when times were good, so it'll be all the more difficult now, i suppose you need to ask yourself if you really want to do this or if you were just looking for an easy way to get rich quick.

 

[JD6400]

gjfr14 like bugsy said where are you based ?
As forgetting a job you just got to keep trying mate !
Not that it helps but we only take on trainees of around your age now or time served sparks , i will probably get knocked for this but we seem to find school leavers now , think they are owed a job and we are highly privileged to be in there presence if they do turn up !!!
I am truly sorry to offend our younger members that do not feel this way but it is what we seem to find now days ?

 

[GJFR]

Cheers fellas, just is a bit frustrating as you all know. I'll keep trucking through, just hearing a lot of doom and gloom stories which make me a bit hesitant.

Bugsy - based in south east London. Why do you ask?

 

[millwall ken]

gjfr14 like bugsy said where are you based ?
As forgetting a job you just got to keep trying mate !
Not that it helps but we only take on trainees of around your age now or time served sparks , i will probably get knocked for this but we seem to find school leavers now , think they are owed a job and we are highly privileged to be in there presence if they do turn up !!!
I am truly sorry to offend our younger members that do not feel this way but it is what we seem to find now days ?

Why do you feel sorry for stating an honest fact fella? Do you think that you're the only one who thinks that?

 

[JD6400]

Thanks Ken , was starting to think i am turning into a moaning old git with unrealistic standards !

 

[GJFR]

I will say this, i love I'm learning. My favourite time of the week easily

 

[millwall ken]

Thanks Ken , was starting to think i am turning into a moaning old git with unrealistic standards !

Nah mate, plenty of us on here who are like that....

 

[GJFR]

Cheers fellas, just is a bit frustrating as you all know. I'll keep trucking through, just hearing a lot of doom and gloom stories which make me a bit hesitant.

Bugsy - based in south east London. Why do you ask?

 

[GJFR]

Bexley to be precise but cab happily commute.