I seem to have let this thread go unnoticed for a while!
There was an objection :
Which is hardly surprising. Thing is, I didn't make it.
I said it's still one of the easiest. Not as easy as a building site trade where you can pick things up by being a labourer, but a more reasonable comparison might be with sparkies, who have to spend a lot longer in college and do a 4 (?) year apprenticeship as well. Might have gone that way myself but at 40 I didn't fancy that much.
Look at the shortest routes not the longest! Plumbing is (in the sense of requirements for registration) irrelevant. You don't need to be a plumber to do Landlords Gas Safety Certs.
Training, experience and assessment are requirements of any technical trade. But I can't think of another where the periods are measured in weeks.
There was an objection :
,
Which is hardly surprising. Thing is, I didn't make it.
I said it's still one of the easiest. Not as easy as a building site trade where you can pick things up by being a labourer, but a more reasonable comparison might be with sparkies, who have to spend a lot longer in college and do a 4 (?) year apprenticeship as well. Might have gone that way myself but at 40 I didn't fancy that much.
Look at the shortest routes not the longest! Plumbing is (in the sense of requirements for registration) irrelevant. You don't need to be a plumber to do Landlords Gas Safety Certs.
Training, experience and assessment are requirements of any technical trade. But I can't think of another where the periods are measured in weeks.
