From a plumbing and heating point of view also seen many who decide to fastrack to become qualified
Omg , it was like banging ur head against the wall, I’ve got patience of a saint and tried to teach them as they came into the industry but alas many thought they knew better
Many couldn’t , solder a pipe, work out how to bend an offset and worse of all didn’t have a clue how systems worked , my favourite was setting up a fault on a boiler, if it wasn’t text book they didn’t have a clue, many times I would just cut the neutral wire in the incoming connector block on the boiler , then put it back into the connector , so wouldn’t have a neutral the other side of the connector , there was an hours entertainment there as I pulled up a stool and cuppa in hand
I can’t even begin to imagine how frustrating it was for u in engineering or BAE
My first day was how to sweep the floor properly and then each day how to look after tools and what they were used for , and then progress onto more difficult things as ur trusted more
Was taught by an ex para and he didn’t take fools easily , I made sure his van was tidy , got his morning tea and lunch , if I lost a tool or if he did I had to pay for it as I wasn’t doing my job properly in ensuring they were back in the proper place
Had 4 x years of that and must admit at the end I couldn’t have had a better teacher , upmost respect of how he taught me from the ground up front a basic stopcock onto very complex heating systems
Alas I think that’s what many are missing these days , having that starting structure of how things work , always taught u need to understand how things work before u can fix them and not skip basics by having a degree
Christ I need to stop talking now
Omg , it was like banging ur head against the wall, I’ve got patience of a saint and tried to teach them as they came into the industry but alas many thought they knew better
Many couldn’t , solder a pipe, work out how to bend an offset and worse of all didn’t have a clue how systems worked , my favourite was setting up a fault on a boiler, if it wasn’t text book they didn’t have a clue, many times I would just cut the neutral wire in the incoming connector block on the boiler , then put it back into the connector , so wouldn’t have a neutral the other side of the connector , there was an hours entertainment there as I pulled up a stool and cuppa in hand
I can’t even begin to imagine how frustrating it was for u in engineering or BAE
My first day was how to sweep the floor properly and then each day how to look after tools and what they were used for , and then progress onto more difficult things as ur trusted more
Was taught by an ex para and he didn’t take fools easily , I made sure his van was tidy , got his morning tea and lunch , if I lost a tool or if he did I had to pay for it as I wasn’t doing my job properly in ensuring they were back in the proper place
Had 4 x years of that and must admit at the end I couldn’t have had a better teacher , upmost respect of how he taught me from the ground up front a basic stopcock onto very complex heating systems
Alas I think that’s what many are missing these days , having that starting structure of how things work , always taught u need to understand how things work before u can fix them and not skip basics by having a degree
Christ I need to stop talking now
