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 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. Paid my way thru U driving heavy machinery in open cuts, then logging. (I'm a greenie at heart, really! )

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 ) 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,