Everyone gets exploited, thats how business works, if everyone did everything at cost then no one would get paid for anything.
I think if you want to gain knowledge you should pay for it, no matter whet it may be, if you wanted a degree you would be required to pay for the knowledge to gain one, the same should be for other trades, some people are happy to spend a small fortune on a 5 day course after all.
I don't see why the OP is so keen to do electrical work, there is no great money in it on a small scale, larger companies appear to be going through the hoop too. Complaints about BG not investing more training money on you because you cannot earn them enough to pay it back is going to fall on deaf ears here. BG run a sucsessfull company, if that could be emulated by small contractors on a national scale it could be sucessfull too, although I think i'd want £7,2M a year to try and organise that too!
If you have already gone down a bad path with your choice of career through BG, dont go down another one in being an one man band electrical contractor, you hardly ever stop working, your brain will hardly ever switch off from it, at least being employed by BG you do your set hours and thats that.
I think if you want to gain knowledge you should pay for it, no matter whet it may be, if you wanted a degree you would be required to pay for the knowledge to gain one, the same should be for other trades, some people are happy to spend a small fortune on a 5 day course after all.
I don't see why the OP is so keen to do electrical work, there is no great money in it on a small scale, larger companies appear to be going through the hoop too. Complaints about BG not investing more training money on you because you cannot earn them enough to pay it back is going to fall on deaf ears here. BG run a sucsessfull company, if that could be emulated by small contractors on a national scale it could be sucessfull too, although I think i'd want £7,2M a year to try and organise that too!
If you have already gone down a bad path with your choice of career through BG, dont go down another one in being an one man band electrical contractor, you hardly ever stop working, your brain will hardly ever switch off from it, at least being employed by BG you do your set hours and thats that.