Is anyone else over Australia?
May 22nd 2011 | 5:00 pm
#121
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May 22nd 2011 | 5:03 pm
#122
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Re: Is anyone else over Australia?
What happens when this generation of skilled trades people retire? if no one is doing apprenticeships then are we going to have to import the next generation through immigration? That's got to be a worry.
May 22nd 2011 | 5:06 pm
#125
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Re: Is anyone else over Australia?
I was responding to this line and this line only...
"a highly desirable apprenticeship" perhaps in the 70`s and 80`s not anymore
I realise 400 bucks a day isnt exactly mind blowing wages, but it's not bad and I would have felt worth chasing by any apprentice ? Add the out of hour cash jobs in the evenings and on the weekends and it starts to become fairly lucrative.
Do contractors charge 400 bucks a day up there, or are these Melbourne rates ?
"a highly desirable apprenticeship" perhaps in the 70`s and 80`s not anymore
I realise 400 bucks a day isnt exactly mind blowing wages, but it's not bad and I would have felt worth chasing by any apprentice ? Add the out of hour cash jobs in the evenings and on the weekends and it starts to become fairly lucrative.
Do contractors charge 400 bucks a day up there, or are these Melbourne rates ?
but from more years of experience that I’d care to remember (lol) I can categorically say that young people are not interested in any trade
walk around a building site the only young faces you see will be digging holes or sweeping up because a labourer gets twice or three times as much as a first year apprentice and the kids are not interested when you tell them that in time they will earn a lot more that the labourer
bringing me back to my earlier statement that they want in now for no effort
May 22nd 2011 | 5:07 pm
#126
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Re: Is anyone else over Australia?
May 22nd 2011 | 5:14 pm
#127
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May 22nd 2011 | 9:26 pm
#129
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May 22nd 2011 | 9:31 pm
#131
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Re: Is anyone else over Australia?
no 400 bucks a day is there or there about, the electrician however is more likely to be on about 30 bucks an hr plus super etc cards in
but from more years of experience that I’d care to remember (lol) I can categorically say that young people are not interested in any trade
walk around a building site the only young faces you see will be digging holes or sweeping up because a labourer gets twice or three times as much as a first year apprentice and the kids are not interested when you tell them that in time they will earn a lot more that the labourer
bringing me back to my earlier statement that they want in now for no effort
but from more years of experience that I’d care to remember (lol) I can categorically say that young people are not interested in any trade
walk around a building site the only young faces you see will be digging holes or sweeping up because a labourer gets twice or three times as much as a first year apprentice and the kids are not interested when you tell them that in time they will earn a lot more that the labourer
bringing me back to my earlier statement that they want in now for no effort
They need to sort out apprenticeships before people want to go for it mate
May 23rd 2011 | 12:39 am
#132
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From: Semi-rural wonderworld, Brisbane
May 23rd 2011 | 12:52 am
#134
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