Apprenticeship and trade

[echnidna]

Who is working in a different trade to the one you did your apprenticeship in?

[gazaly]

Electrical Fitter mechanic & hydraulic/pneumatic technician by trade.

Now working in training, supervising a Training Centre (no training to do with trade)

[Grunt]

I started out as a small motor mechanic and now I'm a computerist.

[JohnM]

I'm retired and I certainly didn't do an apprenticeship in that :D Actually started as a mechanic

[Harry72]

Didnt do a apprenticeship but trained up as a landscaper... ended up being a crane driver/metal process technician.

[aabb]

Started as an accountant and still one ......no escape :(

[Grunt]

Started as an accountant and still one ......no escape

Have you considered a career in lion taming?

[DavidG]

Electronics then computer programmer, consultant, now retired.

[bsrlee]

Started out as a 'Police Person' - in those days it was ~man and Force not Service. :(

Now working sometimes as a film special effects person/armourer/dogs body (well at least part of it is the same), otherwise looking after my 83 old Mum.

[maglite]

Telecom tech, failed professional footballer, window cleaner, soldier, rock driller, shot fires assistant, sewerage truck driver, have been operating a industrial cleaning and site services business for the best part of 13 years.

[Skew ChiDAMN!!]

Programmer/Systems Analyst. :D Paid my way thru U driving heavy machinery in open cuts, then logging. (I'm a greenie at heart, really! :rolleyes: )

Now I butcher wood. Much lower stress levels & a more comfortable dress code.

[journeyman Mick]

Went to art college (so not trained as anything useful :o ) farmed for a year, worked as an art tutor at an Aboriginal community co-op, tutor at an alcohol rehab centre, graphic artist, screenprinter, mechanic, truck driver, entertainer, film extra, divemaster, labourer, carpenter, shipwright and cabinetmaker. I've got my trade papers as a carpenter and am licensed as a carpenter, joiner and shopfitter. Also a qualified firefighter. Nowadays mostly a stay at home carer for sick wife and hoarder of timber and tools. I knock up the occasional kitchen in order to justify my tool addiction ;)

Mick

[DanP]

Fitter and Turner, never looked back.

[Kev Y.]

Wayyy back when.. I was a qualified Painter (that lasted all of 7 years).. now I am a powerstation operator and have been for the past 24 years.. (insert image of homer simpson here)

[Andy Mac]

RAAF aircraft engine fitter for 6yrs and came out with a fitters ticket. Went working as a diesel fitter before seeing the error of my ways and studied art. Now an arts technician, looking after 5 studios, teaching into sculpture program.

Never regret doing a trade, any trade, as it sets you up with handskills and some nous. Also helps you work out what you don't want to do for the rest of your life:)

Cheers,

[Cliff Rogers]

RAAF Radio Tech Ground, got a RAAF postgrad course in Minicomputers, 26 years later & I'm still fixing computers, they are a bit smaller & a bit smarter but heaps less reliable. :D I'm a whole lot larger, a big smart R's, & only reliable if I feel like it. :rolleyes:

[silentC]

Sheetmetal worker out of school (no apprenticeship though) -> glazier -> joinery assistant (docking and milling staircase parts) -> builder's labourer -> maker of green houses and shade houses ->warehouse packer -> music shop retail assistant -> help desk operator -> computer programmer -> web developer -> forum hanger on.

All seems like a logical progression to me, what's the problem?

[Barry_White]

Although I served my apprenticeship as a patternmaker these are the occupations I have had in my life time so far.

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Window & Shop front Installation Contractor

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Tilt-A-Door, Panel-Lift Door and Roller Door Installation Contractor<o =""></o>

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Retired Person


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[Cliff Rogers]

Geeze Baz, did you ever stay in one job long enough to get smoko? :D

[Wassy]

Soldier/electrician -> civi electrician -> data technician -> electrical supervisior -> photocopier salesman -> call centre operator -> dispatch officer.

Seems that nobody has confessed to the Al Bundy profession yet.

[Ashore]

Marine Engineer Trainee , stayed at it for 25 years same company ( got the watch ) then fled
Lectured for a while and did some consultant work , then full retired into the shed and have never had less spare time ,list of projects a mile long and two grand kids under 2 yrs ,






The trouble with life is there's no background music.

Russell

[duckman]

Marine Engineer Trainee , stayed at it for 25 years same company ( got the watch ) then fled
Lectured for a while and did some consultant work , then full retired into the shed and have never had less spare time ,list of projects a mile long and two grand kids under 2 yrs ,



You were a Trainee for 25 years? :eek:

Man, you must be a slow learner. :D :D

[Barry_White]

Geeze Baz, did you ever stay in one job long enough to get smoko? :D

Yes Cliff I did get to have some smoko. Some of those occupations I wasn't in them for very long and a lot of the time I was doing at least two at the same time working about 80 hours a week up to 7 days a week.

[Ashore]

You were a Trainee for 25 years? :eek:

Man, you must be a slow learner. :D :D

Always found there was something new to learn espically when they got rid of shipwrights , lecco's , radio operators and engineers had to look after the problims in their fields as well

Introduce computers , plc's , more electronics etc and it never stops

But when they got rid of stewards , no way was I going to learn bed making, vacuuming , toilet cleaning etc , imagine if shmbo found out , life at home would be hell




The trouble with life is there's no background music.

Russell

[Zed]

trained as a wanka, workong as a bullshyte artist

[maglite]

trained as a wanka, workong as a bullshyte artist

Did you have to go to school for that or were you self taught:p

[RufflyRustic]

I'm still working in the End User computing field (aka computer nerd, interpreter liasion person - you know, the one who can talk jargon with the programmers, then turn around and decipher it for the everyday users - well, I try:D ) after doing my obligatory (thanks Dad!) uni degrees, albeit not quite in the same field, as the first one was in Secretarial Studies, and believe me, you don't want me for your secretary!!!! :p
cheers
RufflyRustic

[Grunt]

trained as a wanka, workong as a bullshyte artist


Either you had an excellent teacher or you were a natural.

:D

[wonnie]

Started out with a French Polishing apprecticeship, worked in that trade for a few years then left to do a Comp Science Degree. Now work as a Analyst Programmer.

Funny thing though, when i was a polisher i'd go home and tinker on the PC, now im a AP i go home and make sawdust :)

[Wongo]

Studied numbers in university for a few years. Still don’t know what I can do with it. Luckily found some stupid enough to employ me as a computer programmer.

[Baz]

RAAF Electrical (Aircraft) Fitter Apprentice, Electronic Technican, Broadcast Engineering Officer and Woodturner.
Cheers
Barry

[MathewA]

trained as a wanka, workong as a bullshyte artist

Yer a politician?

[ivanavitch]

Still working on Her Majesty's flying circus. Started as a radtech and now on all the queer trades (things with electrons).

[Iain]

RAAF as a rad tech then got a commission in logistics (called supply then).
Went to Uni got a BA in Photography Science stream, then BA in Psychology followed by MA and Phd, worked with villains for 20 years retired last year and back at work again.
Worked for myself for 12 years importing and manufacturing fishing gear, selling electronics, recently developing software and now selling it with hardware.
Beats having SWMBO nagging at me.

[Ian007]

started as a kid doing paper delivery lad then a milk money collector, did building renovations for my tech studies teacher while in high school
after I left school got a job in a factory making eletric motors then trained as an industrial spray painter with the same mob for a bit then
print shop hand
storeman
deliverys for schweppes drinks
service station operator
sheet metal worker making averies
shi% kicker for holdens, but I had my own office
worked as a life guard at public swimming pool
truck tyre fitter,car tyre fitter,wheel alignment technician all the same mob
hurt my back playing indoor cricket 4 nights a week so had some time off then
transport/dock supervisor
truck driver
lab technician/delivery driver
garbo driver (more money :) )
air conditioning installer
air conditioner sales person
air conditioning contractor/ repairs/ sales, my own business
study building for a while
building works supervisor
and now only twenty five years to go :eek:

[Mulgabill]

Boy! is there anyone left in the RAAF:D

I started my working life as;
Appr Cabinet Maker, (boss went broke, not my fault:(),
Banking & Finance,
Office Admin,
Financial modeller(retrenched:(),
Electricians Assistant(Retrenched:)),
Law Clerk,
Computer Tech & Programmer (retrenched after Y2K:mad:,
Viticulturist,
Farm Hand/Driver,
Builders labourer,
Aluminium frabicator,
Almost retired!;)

I have never lost the taste for wood!!

[ozwinner]

now on all the queer trades

Ya should of joined the Navy by the sounds of it.

Al :eek: :rolleyes:

[ozwinner]

Did my time as an apprentice brickie.

Did my time as an apprentice boiler maker 20 years later.

Now laying bricks and picking up crap.
Al :o

[Grunt]

Now laying bricks and picking up crap.


Hey Al, there's plenty of crap out the back yard. Come around and get'em.

I must learn to poo in the toilet one day.

[Iain]

Hey Al, there's plenty of crap out the back yard.
Woodborer said that a few weeks ago :rolleyes:

[MathewA]

Did my time as an apprentice brickie.

Did my time as an apprentice boiler maker 20 years later.

Now laying bricks and picking up crap.

Al :o

Are you picking up crap the to lay as bricks?

[doug1]

Electrical, Electronics, management, computers ( support of users)

[julianx]

did my time as an apprentice carpenter but now I'm an unemployed millionaire (the money is good if you can get work) :D

[echnidna]

did my time as an apprentice carpenter but now I'm an unemployed millionaire (the money is good if you can get work) :D

If you want do Work For The Dole I have some vacancies coming up soon