.................a Research Project entitled The Effectiveness of Apprenticeships ..........
I mentioned in the above post the only way to give an informed opinion on the above is
down stream looking back on the success or otherwise of the partcipants, well you can't get much more down stream than me at 70,
so how did I fare? Quite frankly it wasn't effective for me as an individual, I had to leave engineering to earn a decent salary which begs the question
did I waste the first 9 years of my working life? I had to work until I was 65 and for the last 6 years I worked in a menial job, let's give a balanced view by considering another individual who went through exactly the same training as I did:
Roland Kent, he stayed at STL all his working life, he rose to be a member of the board of directors and would have been able to retire at 61 on half of a director's salary, so for him his apprenticeship was very effective.
So if I had my time again would I choose an apprenticeship?
Probably not, but that begs the question
what would I have done if I hadn't -
I've no idea. But I do know, if I did have my time again at aged 12/13 I would check out those jobs where you can earn enough money by the time you are 30 to retire with enough to keep you in a luxury lifestyle for the rest of your life,
Banker, City Trader, Hedge Fund Manager, coming from a back street in Hockley I never even knew such jobs existed.
Peg.