atw: Re: Accreditation - again

As one of the better automotive electrical tradesman in Sydney, with nearly
twenty years of unique experience, all you can hope to earn in the
automotive fields is about $50 000 a year. The hours are long, the work
strenuous, conditions are appalling. You have to buy your own equipment (a
good range of tools used daily or weekly will cost $8000.00), your own
clothing, etc.

Why, then, if you have reasonably intelligent children, would you recommend
a trade to them? Send them to Uni, or at least TAFE for a diploma. They will
earn more working a bar on Saturday night than first or second year
apprentices, and have a better more optioned future.

I assure you, there is only pride in the work (and not a lot of that
anymore), no dignity or respect if you have a trade. In Sydney, to survive,
it is not enough to live on.

Sorry for the facts of life.
Warren.

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Maybe a little OT...

There was a fascinating Background Briefing program a couple of weeks ago on
the ABC that discussed vocational training.

"There are now hundreds of thousands of young people being trained in jobs
that are subsidised by the government, in a program called the New
Apprenticeship Scheme. But most of these are being trained as cleaners, shop
assistants, aged care workers, clerical workers, truck drivers and hamburger
flippers. For every four trainees we pump out, only one of them is what we
used to call an apprentice."

Audio and transcript at
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s1255502.htm

I'm encouraging my kids to think about a (real) trade as a career
possibility - I can see a guaranteed path to success there.


Margaret

> o   the establishment of a ministerial council on vocational education
> "to ensure continued harmonisation of a national system of standards,
> assessment and accreditation ... "
>


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