Positions Vacant

HI,

My work is currently looking to employ an Apprentice
Toolmaker/Fitter Machinist, to be suitable you would be either
male or female aged between 16 and 19
and undertaking studies related to metal working or similar
and interested in a career in this field.

PM me if you are interested or know someone that is interested
in this position offered.

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I cannot believe you have had no interest.. youth of today..pffft : crazy:

what no one replied? fuckin hell! try evan an adult apprentice through the govenment mate.

better person
more responsible
and gov rebates

I think it more comes down to the fact that most of them don't want to get their hands dirty for sweet fuck all. Got some boiley apprentice mates looking to give it up because he's sick of get 5 something an hour and coming home black and covered in shit.

true BUT look at what he'll be earning once he finishes!!!

you can't expect to walk into a job with no training and be paid $18 an hour....

its called the company ladder.....

*rolls eyes* some people want everything for nothing

I can get someone a job operating an excavator for an immediate start. Obviously need some experience.

Full time, above award rates and working with some good blokes.

Over the next few years (ie the end of an apprenticeship) trades will be where all the $$$ are.

These days all these unqualified people want to get into IT and because there is such a glut of unskilled staff companies are paying fuck all for their services. These people are the people who used to work in trades, and as such there is a shortage of skilled tradies. A person with a trade in a few years can almost name their price.

Take it from someone who has been in IT for over 10 years, and also had some time on building sites too. IT is NOT where the money will be.

all you dumb fuckin IT guys who cant use your hands to change a tap washer or lay a brick or build a pergola or paint a car or fix a tiled roof or shit like that are the dumb ones. its already happening in q.land now all the people who cant do that stuff are paying millionare trades people to do it and getting robbed blind for simple things that any normal man should be able to do.
And dont use the excuse that the trades people need IT guys to fix their computers etcetcetc because their is so many of you out there cutting each others throat to get the jobs it cost fuck all.

also lets face it water plumbing electricity your car your bike your house tiles or walls ALWAYS come before your computer.

in a few years trades people evan now are worth there weight in gold.

Dave, have you had any luck finding anyone?

I'd have considered it if I was young enough. Mainly as I know some tradies now and they are rolling in it! A few years of hell for decades of goodness. A lot like uni! Uni you don't get paid to go to but a lot of people think it's the next logical career step.

nothin wrong with gettin your hands dirty, I worked in a foundry with hot molten steel for a few months and loved it .. the pay was sick . $1200+ clear but you had to bust ya guts ! keeps ya fit tho .. spewin the contract finished!

right on the money jimbo - trades are where its at for the coin - all the new crop of money are tradies. the housing boom has helped them increasingly charge what they like as there is a huge demand and a relatively small supply...

unfortunately one of the reasons there are less tradies is that companies keep moving their plants abroad.

im an I.T guy but i certainly know how to get my hands dirty. apart from uni holidays and school holidays i worked for almost a year full time with my old man as a sparky doing new houses. doing undegrounds and climbing through roofs is a bitch i tell ya

Trades are where it will be, if not already. Lots of Tradies earn more then office jockeys these days!!!

A couple more years and I have my full trade certification... Not that long really anyhow, time absolutely flies!!!

This post has been edited by Naked: Sep 6 2007, 01:16 PM

Harry, specially for someone as tall as you! That would have been painful!

Robbie, what's your cert going to be in?

I'm basically a cook at this stage, there are different ways of gaining your trade accredditation in this feild, one obviously is apprenticeship, or you can do 6 months @ TAFE doing Cert III (basically all blocks required by apprentices at the end of their 4 years). Not like the other Cert III's though, you really have to bust your arse. Then you have to do 2 years trade expereince as a cook, before going before a board that will decide if you qualify for the full accrediation which basically means Chef, then there are more levels to go up... Chefs de Partie (rare those days) Sous and all that. Another way is to sit and exam, and it's so hard no one really bothers.

It's great if you work at places with high standard, but if I had worked in a shitty pub probably wouldve opted for apprenticeship, or had I been younger.

No point signing up for this if your not into it, as it is a waste of your time, and the employers. Also, if you don't love it, you won't asorb it and ultimately, you want to excel! So if your unsure, I'd do some work expereince or something along those lines before taking the plunge.


This post has been edited by Naked: Sep 6 2007, 06:37 PM

just saw this, may encourage my 18yo brother to apply

all interesting points there, I've been in my trade over 30 years and never been out of work and could take what i have learnt in all those years and do just about anything with the skills.

bwhahaha!