RA052824

If so, make yourself known please!

GARETH T

what you wanna know?

Al Bags

Sorry mate .. no. About 20 years ago.

The DIVA

iTrader: (3)

Same for me........That fairly recent isnt it ?..

GARETH T

well on the grand scale of the universe you could call 20 yrs recent

Al Bags

... and I stopped counting "Birthdays" any more ...... I only have Anniversaries of my birth lol

The DIVA

iTrader: (3)

Cool.. .....don`t feel so old now.

Al Bags

How's Barry Island then Gareth?

The Kebab shop still there, just at the entrance to the link road down to the Island?
Used to do a great Adana Kebab there!
Barry Commando's still gruesome girls, like they used to be when I was at St Athan base for 10 years til '88 ?

plynchy

14 years ago. When wires were made of lead.

GARETH T

all the same mate,,,, full of nobs

Al Bags

No PC's then .... No mobiles .. and the latest hot cars were RS turbos and the 3 dr Cossies.

Al Bags

I'm convinced that the 80's were better times (for music, too!)

GARETH T

now you are showing your age,,, 90's is for music mate

Al Bags

90's ??? Get out of here man! lol

plynchy

80's were better. Cos you were younger! So was I.

RA052824

I wish i could remember what i wanted to know!!!

Anyway i got my 2360 P2 exams soon, one in december, one in march!

Anyone got a copy of a complete NVQ3 folder? Really can't be bothered to do all that shit, doing NVQ2 was mind rotting!!!

You oldies won't know what i'm talking about will ya!

Alps Pacino

The nvq3 is a piece of piss mate. I thought they have changed from the 2360 now, our apprentices are doing another one now. I did the 2360 was the first year it started 99 i think

RA052824

Yea my local college stopped doing it! I done Part1 there (harlow), and had to go to turnford to do Part2!! Done PAT testing aswell, how hard is that lol lol!

Test & Inspection next on the list and that should be it!

That NVQ3 isn't needed though is it, i had a bloke come out to site once on my NVQ2 and i didnt really do anything! He watched my put a few lights up and do second fixing as it was near end of the job, done some crappy folder with pics and god knows what and that was it! NVQ3 seems like its going to be the same!!!! Whats the point! The whole electrical game seems a right mess to me!

Alps Pacino

I did an apprentiship with jtl(part of the jib) the log book for the nvq3 is a fooking nightmare to be fair, the am2 is a piece of piss if your not just a house basher. Testing and inspection is meant to be hard. I wouldnt mind going back and doing it and the t+i, just need to get into me gaffer i think

RA052824

I've been told T&I is easier than Part2! & Part2 is only hard if you don't put the work in! Which i didnt first time round!!!

None of this C course though, couldn't bare doing that!

cossies4eva

the qualified electrician at my work has being there for 44 years doing mainly electrics

Paddy rst

been out my time 15 years, got my A,B and C,got my test and inspection and 16th edition 5 years ago, 16 th was a piece of piss, t and inspection practical was easy the written section A was ok , but section B was a bit of a twat,

lancia delta 6 times WRC

I'm an industrial electrician on a chemical plant, none of the house bashing crap to much trouble

ONC Electrical
ONC Instrumentation
HNC Electrical
HNC Instrumentation
NVQ3 Electrical
NVQ3 Instrumentation
also an RPS (radiation protection supervisor)

AndyP

I wish I could become an electrician, been told Im too old at 24, and yes Ive tried everywhere

Looks like it's night-school for me, and even then I'll have no real-world experience

GARETH T

AndyP

does depend on what type of s[arkie you wanna be, if you wanna do rew-wire house bashing your not too old at all,, if you wanna work in a factory fault finding on industrial control then getting experience would be a problem


get too night school mate

lancia delta 6 times WRC

Dont give up, i've trained older apprentices before.
Sometimes it works in your favour as you would be seen as more comitted and settled, not like some of the pi55 heads we have
Its just whether you could handle the start money.

AndyP

Cheers mate I fall under the former category! I do IT contract work at the mo so Im trying to get a 9-5 job and go to night-school, unfortunately the government have stopped subsidising firms for training people at my age, even JTL don't wanna know

GARETH T

maybe you gott bit the bullet and just pay for the coarse yourself mate

AndyP

I'd love to get an apprenticeship but I don't seem to have any options left. I've contacted the big blue chip companies, local electrics firms, been to the job centre, all the careers offices that are available etc etc if anyone has any ideas Im all ears! It's my fault, should've sorted this out years ago instead of taking the easy money

The start money's not a problem, I still live at home and Im selling my S3 anyway, perhaps Im just destined to stay an IT nerd

Thanks for the positive comments

AndyP

I almost paid £5k to train at the Building Trade Skills Centre, but they wanted the money up-front and when I went for my induction I realised I'd been mis-lead so I pulled out before I made a big and expensive mistake!

The colleges round my way won't let you sign unless you are already working for a company (they have no contacts that they could offer me for this), and as I mentioned above no-one I contacted wanted me anyway, perhaps I should take the hint

GARETH T

dotn give up mate,, my company started some adult appretices on,, was great fun,, i was 22 training 35 yrs olds sadly you have to be in my company to get one,, but im sure theres companys out there willing too help

try phoning round the smaller electrical companys and maybe start as a "mate", try to get some training with them

AndyP

Thanks for the advice Gareth, I won't be giving up.

Being an electricians 'mate' seems like a good idea, I'll see what I can sort out

GARETH T

we got a "mate" in work,, and he's better than half the sparkies