Apprenticeship and trade

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

Electrical Fitter mechanic & hydraulic/pneumatic technician by trade.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Have you considered a career in lion taming?

Electronics then computer programmer, consultant, now retired.

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.

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.

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.

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

Fitter and Turner, never looked back.

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)

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,