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3rd year diesel motor mechanic $12.40 an hour on 38 hour weeks. pretty piss poor but ya get that.
Welcome to Just Commodores, a site specifically designed for all people who share the same passion as yourself.
Are you solid or wallboard? (think they call it fibrous these days?)
I'm only 16 atm but will most likely be starting an apprenticeship after year 12. Thinking of doing either plumbing, solid plastering or carpentry.
My dad's a solid plasterer, so that will be an advantage if I choose to take that path.
Electricians seem to be on the money at the moment.........but then I'm not really into electrics so meh.
But its kinda ironic, that I'm working at maccas, and get nearly 10 bucks an hour, (getting a payrise when I turn 17). But oh well, I'm fairly certain you make A LOT more once you come off apprenticeship. I usually earn in the range of $130 - $280 a week.
There is some damn good money to be made in plasteringAnd plumbers..
You don't have to be into "electrics" to be an electrician. It's just labour work basically, setting up support systems for your cables, running cables and knowing how to fit off the apparatus (power points/lights/switches etc.). The labour work is a hell of a lot easier than most other trades, especially plastering and carpentry, and the money is better.
Your comment is totally unrelated to the topic. What has uni got to do with apprenticeships?
With uni everything you do is to benefit yourself with apprenticeships yes you gain benefit for yourself but you also benefit your employer by providing lost cost labour and there are also great incentives from the goverment to the employer. It is only fair that you get paid even if it is measley and you work as hard and some people do just as good job as fully qualified people.
For my employer apprentices are just a means to end lost cost labour is what its all about they dont care about teaching you they dont care your schooling. Hell they even told one apprentice that he couldnt go to school as they needed him to work instead.
Compare that to uni, out of high school you spend at least 3 years, paying large fees, earning nothing, then walk away with a bit of paper and hope someone will hire you because of it.
And also, what's with saying uni-students should be paid 10 bucks an hour to study.......wtf?????
The learning is for their own benefit, if they need to be paid for it (and that system would be flaunted anyhow) then they shouldn't be there.
I think that's a ridiculous proposition TBH.