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Windy Miller
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45 years ago yesterday I started mine! Oddly enough I think this year was the first time I’d ever missed the anniversary.
Must be getting old…
Must be getting old…
As a sign of how times have changed.
My job is to look after a large number of Apprentices for the RAF. When they get to the end of their Apprenticeship, one of the things I need to know is when they started, so I can work out if they finished in line with their planned dates.
Now, because I'm sensible I tend to look the required information up beforehand, but at the same time I always ask them as part of their final sign off interview when they started their Apprenticeship, and I can 100% garuntee that most of them have no idea.
Normally they just stare blankly at me, or say "Err, January, no July, no May, err 2020, no 2023, err, I don't know it was ages ago"
Apparently the youth of today are much better educated and much more switched on though.
My job is to look after a large number of Apprentices for the RAF. When they get to the end of their Apprenticeship, one of the things I need to know is when they started, so I can work out if they finished in line with their planned dates.
Now, because I'm sensible I tend to look the required information up beforehand, but at the same time I always ask them as part of their final sign off interview when they started their Apprenticeship, and I can 100% garuntee that most of them have no idea.
Normally they just stare blankly at me, or say "Err, January, no July, no May, err 2020, no 2023, err, I don't know it was ages ago"
Apparently the youth of today are much better educated and much more switched on though.
pressbrake1
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Mine was 33 years ago Monday 
wow ,,, more or less the same here ,, Ive never actually thought of it before ,,, well there you go.
brightspark
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54 years friday 
only ever been off work 15 weeks in all that time with broken bones and the flu
only ever been off work 15 weeks in all that time with broken bones and the flu
Blicksheep
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That the difference between generations. One who had to remember stuff and one with a technological crutchAs a sign of how times have changed.
My job is to look after a large number of Apprentices for the RAF. When they get to the end of their Apprenticeship, one of the things I need to know is when they started, so I can work out if they finished in line with their planned dates.
Now, because I'm sensible I tend to look the required information up beforehand, but at the same time I always ask them as part of their final sign off interview when they started their Apprenticeship, and I can 100% garuntee that most of them have no idea.
Normally they just stare blankly at me, or say "Err, January, no July, no May, err 2020, no 2023, err, I don't know it was ages ago"
Apparently the youth of today are much better educated and much more switched on though.
brightspark
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never to old to learn you never know it alllong time doing apprenticeships, have ya not finnished yet
andy_v
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never to old to learn you never know it all
iam still doing the apprenticeship of life
Barking Mat
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When I finished my secondary school education in the early '90s I don't think apprenticeships were even available ???
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1976 I started mine. Never actually knew there was a start date, and I've never, ever, celebrated any sort of anniversary of it. I had an interview, to get the job, then had to go to college for a year, no idea what date that started.
I had an interview, to get the job, then had to go to college for a year, no idea what date that started.
northwest
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That sort of brought me up short. My eldest lad was coming up to twelve then and I had long finished my apprenticeship bloody hell!
Onoff
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It was 40 years for me in August. I choose to forget. I find now that being a doer / maker / fixer seems a pretty rare thing. Either people haven't got the skills or are too lazy to do whatever and it befalls to me. I need to start saying no too. Catch 22 when you know you "can" or can't sit idly by and watch someone else cock it up or ruin good materials.
It's why I drink @ajlelectronics! To forget the perceived injustice.
I think though I've made a rod for my own back, only because I have the hand skills and there was some material lying about...
It's why I drink @ajlelectronics!
To forget the perceived injustice. I think though I've made a rod for my own back, only because I have the hand skills and there was some material lying about...
