Who Are You?

[HandySparks]

This poll is for all Forum members. Please read the poll carefully and then choose the best description in the context of your membership of the forum. I can't include all options, so you might like to go into more detail by posting in the thread.

The poll is confidential (forum names are not visible).

For the purposes of the poll:
'Apprenticeship' means a pre-planned formal arrangement for multiple years of structured classroom and on-the-job training.
'Short Course' means a concentrated course of less than 6 weeks of mostly classroom based learning. (Just a C&G 2381 / 2382 'regs' course doesn't count.)
'Electrician' means anyone doing hands-on installation, maintenance, repair or testing of electrical systems (normally for payment) and includes 'domestic installer'.

 

[Geordie Spark]

I was looking for the words "ginger mess!". :dita:

So she didn't sent you a Xmas card either pet??

 

[tidyboiler]

So she didn't sent you a Xmas card either pet??

Surprisingly no!!!! and she didn't even have the courtesy to thank me for her gift!!!! I thought she'd be happy with that hand grenade!. :82:

 

[Geordie Spark]

Surprisingly no!!!! and she didn't even have the courtesy to thank me for her gift!!!! I thought she'd be happy with that hand grenade!. :82:

She may have been a bit more appreciative if you had left the pin it pet!!

 

[tidyboiler]

She may have been a bit more appreciative if you had left the pin it pet!!

And spoil my fun??? :sorcerer:

 

[Silly Sausage]

No,my friend,i did not anywhere suggest that Re-sitting was required. What i alluded to,and you may have even pondered the fact yourself,was the change in standards and thresholds.
I bet you have considered whether or not the standards of the current qualification,are equitable with those at the time you completed yours.
Some are very easy to check,for example,get a 1980's physics "O" level exam paper,and put it next to the current exam.
The ONLY reason i posted,was not to disrespect any one persons qualifications,but to critique judging a persons acumen based on a simple list of numbers.
But i take your point,i'm boogered if anyone thinks i'm doing that cycling proficiency badge again...

Haha...I knew I was misunderstanding you one way or the other, I chose wrongly!

 

[Knobhead]

At some point in the future I will complete NVQ level 3 2365 and am looking forward to it. I'm not entirely sure what is involved with getting a Jib grade, but I am solely interested in Domestic work.

So are we.

You have to know what you're doing from what I'm told.

 

[Engineer54]

Just had a look at the poll results to date (to which i have not contributed). Surprise, surprise not a single fast track DI, which leads me to believe (as i first suspected) that a fair bit of porky pie's are being told, or that none are willing to accept what they actually are. I also didn't realised that we had 10 Engineers on the books here, when i can only think of 3 names off the top of my head....

 

[pennychew]

Just had a look at the poll results to date (to which i have not contributed). Surprise, surprise not a single fast track DI, which leads me to believe (as i first suspected) that a fair bit of porky pie's are being told, or that none are willing to accept what they actually are. I also didn't realised that we had 10 Engineers on the books here, when i can only think of 3 names off the top of my head....

I think there are 4 people who have voted fast track DI, its the currently training to be a fast track DI that has no votes

I suppose its a small window of opportunity to catch someone currently on a fast track course!

 

[shanky887614]

I think there are 4 people who have voted fast track DI, its the currently training to be a fast track DI that has no votes

I suppose its a small window of opportunity to catch someone currently on a fast track course!

i selected training other as i started 2330 2+3 on my own then when i started apprentaship later i started on 2357 and used my 2330 as prior learning.

 

[Engineer54]

I think there are 4 people who have voted fast track DI, its the currently training to be a fast track DI that has no votes

Your right pennychew, my mistake!! But we all know that the numbers here far out number the qualified electricians and increasing alarmingly.

 

[Slowhand]

I didn't tick anything.
I got married halfway through the second year of my apprenticeship and had to earn more money so l was employed as a mate so l got the enhanced wage.
Then was promoted to " Improver " because l had some knowledge and was more than capable of working on my own.
Then decided to go back to college ( at my own expense) and did three years night school.
During this time I got distinctions and credits on most of my exams.
My employer put me on the full rate and told me that I was an electrician.
I have kept up with my regs exams as required. I am of the opinion that you never stop learning and I still consider myself to be an electrician.
Does that fit in somewhere?

 

[andyelectric]

Just had a look at the poll results to date (to which i have not contributed). Surprise, surprise not a single fast track DI, which leads me to believe (as i first suspected) that a fair bit of porky pie's are being told, or that none are willing to accept what they actually are. I also didn't realised that we had 10 Engineers on the books here, when i can only think of 3 names off the top of my head....

There is quite a fair bit of choice to choose from. If the poll was limited to apprenticeship vs short course I expect a different story would be told and more would tick short course.

I don't know what 'porky pies' you are trying to refer to.

 

[Engineer54]

There is quite a fair bit of choice to choose from. If the poll was limited to apprenticeship vs short course I expect a different story would be told and more would tick short course.

I don't know what 'porky pies' you are trying to refer to.

Outright lies, would just about sum the answer to your query!!

 

[andyelectric]

Outright lies, would just about sum the answer to your query!!

Fair enough, this is a anonymous internet forum so there probably are some liars on here. All I can say for certain is that I am not one. But I still don't see what you were trying to get at with the 'porky pies' reference. Are you trying to say DI's are not common on this site, or vice versa. I just dont get your point?

 

[ElectroChem]

Are you trying to say DI's are not common on this site, or vice versa. I just dont get your point?

The implication is that short-course DI's are choosing to call themselves full electricians. Let's face it, most of the senior members here consider them little better than half-trained cable monkeys, at least the monkeys don't get ideas about going into business.