Saalro

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Finally got a new job as a apprentice mechanic, been looking for years and it finally came along. On a 3 month trail period but i already have experience and knowledge so am already doing a fair bit.

Just hit me that i'm going to be going to college again for 1 day a week and i'm 23, 24 in August, i'm feeling a bit weird about it but the company is really good, enjoying it a lot, just yeah college :/

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95turbowagon

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I wish i had gone down this route, i did work experience at Vauxhall and loved it. But when leaving school i didn't fancy more learning and went straight to work.

Good luck with it!

The Dogs B******s

Good Luck

spanner monkey

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Nice one mate Don't worry about your age, if anything it's an advantage for you. College birds will be an added bonus

Dave

Saalro

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I think i might make myself a character, maybe mysterious lol.

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SpecDscooby

Good luck with it fella.....

Brun

Mmmmmmm college burds

nardoblue

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Good luck buddy and enjoy it, as they say every day is a school day and knowledge weighs nothing

chocolate_o_brian

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Nice one Sam, never to old to learn. I was 24 and out of work on medical reasons when I applied for the apprenticeship scheme at the steelworks in Scunthorpe. Nearly 500 applicant whittled down to about 70 for that years intake and I was the eldest, just squeezing in the age restriction due to having a late birthday.
First years pants when you've a mortgage to pay and your only earning £493 a month But it gets better.
I'm in my second of three years now and learning loads on plant. Infact I move to my second of four 6 month placements on Monday. Kinda scary meeting another whole bunch of people but you crack on. I'm doing mech engineering and studying towards my NVQ3 (we don't have day release - do it all at home or work).

Good luck anyways and enjoy it most of all. Being older than the other apprentices (8-9 years over some) sometimes helps as the old guard at work give me more responsibility

stuart69

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head down pal,and stick at it no matter what


Welldone

Saalro

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Yeah i guess age could be an advantage.

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Leslie

Good to see apprenticeships appearing. It was always a good system in the past and the country needs to get it all going again.

Les

ALi-B

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Good luck

Only thing to wary of if the aprenticeship is at a less than honest dealership/garage and is too focused on regimated routine. Some employ somewhat over-zealous and less than honest criteria when it comes to inspection on profitable wear+tear parts and try to remove the mechanic's ability to use their own judgement/discretion.

A good friend of mine who started off as a mechanic at a nationwide dealership compared their traning to brainwashing and said it was basically training on how to rip-off the customer. But so long as you can use your common sense to differentiate between stuff being done because it needs to be done, and stuff being done as a profit exercise, you'll do just fine.

The problem with the brainwashing type training is that could induce bad habits where you end up doing stuff based on a regimated routine without really observing or paying proper attention to what you are doing and more importantly, why you are doing it. If you constantly question yourself why you are doing the task in hand and can justify why you are doing it, then you won't go far wrong IMO

Saalro

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GlesgaKiss

That's the main benefit of going back to college. Of course you get to learn as well.

jods

Excellent News!!

Good for you dude! Quality Mechanics are a Godsend! Work your bollocks off - Get a reputation for Hard Work, Great Quality and Fair Pricing and you'll make a GREAT Living out of it (in time) You're young now - but get that reputation and you're made for life!!

Sosbanite

well done that man!
Good luck and enjoy