A lot of people don't realize how relatively easy it used to be a s how relatively hard it is now.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
Not saying the work was easier, but getting to square one. Used to be that an apprentice would be hired either off the street or from an existing production job. These days it is expected that to get an apprenticeship you pay for a full college education first.
And you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you have to find one of the elusive apprenticeships. In order to actually get that, you're probably going to have to go to some place in the middle of nowhere because they're worth their weight in gold and they're not even going to bother advertising in places people actually want to be.
So and once you have one of the elusive apprenticeships, you think that the problem would be over after that, but no.
Next you better hope that the apprenticeship that you took is for one of the elusive employers who is actually trying to get a journeyman out of this. A lot of employers will happily keep you as a fourth year apprentice forever because you're just as good as a job but they don't need to pay you as much. A lot of 4th or 5th Year apprentices have to go out and get another job at another employer who will finally push them over the line to journeyman.
But, after paying your own way through college, finding an apprenticeship that is as elusive as true love, studying, fighting to actually get your certification, then you're finally certified, and as long as you're smart about it you can leverage that into a decent middle class living.
The thing that we need is apprenticeships, lots of them. And just like the college courses, the apprenticeships should have tons of them at first, and basically fire 80% of the people in the first year because they're just not cut out for it, but at least there will be a path from high school education to journeyman. Right now the tightrope that you have to walk is insane. That's the reason why there's so few of them.
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