General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Excuse me Empress but there most certainly are apprenticeships these days for the right youngster who is willing to start at the bottom and claw their way up. We take on two electrical apprentices per year, put them through College and hopefully after taking examinations they become fully fledged electricians, and even then they can build on that to become approved electricians or technician electricians. It's no good bemoaning the state of things. As from January to May this year we'd had over 100 applications from youngsters keen and willing to learn a trade. True to say some of them just wanted a job without having to go to the "trouble" of going to College, just for the money, but it doesn't work that way. We ended up syphoning those applicants down to 10, all hopeful of getting a foot on the first rung of the ladder, but sadly we had to choose just two. It's heartbreaking for those that make the effort and don't get selected. Trouble with a lot of kids these days is they want all the designer gear, mobile phones, IPods etc etc but are too bl**dy lazy to get themselves off their backsides and start looking for a job BEFORE they leave school, because they're spoiled rotten. I had a lad ring us only this morning asking if we did apprenticeships to which I said - yes we do but you're too late. Off me soapbox now.