Are you going to pay the £450.00 for him to do the 17th edition then?
I'll pay for the OP's example only under the condition that he and I can sit in a quiet room for 1 hour before the exam so I can explain how to read a book and pass the exam. Deal?
it's very easy to pass as long as you've got the money in the Bank just like all of the other tickets, so you might be able to easily do it, but if you're currently skint then you're Knackered aren't you???
See above for the OP's 17th. As for other tickets he will have to do what I did and many others on here (including yourself by the sound of it) and do crappy jobs to make the money to then make something of yourself, its not aesy and there is no fast track in getting where you deserve to be. Always pushing myself to become better, that is an electrician talking and not a plumber.
sorry bud, no tickets no job......... Yes you can, its just hard to find and not worth doing. Dont go down the "employed by a cowboy company" route.
no job, no savings........no savings no money......no money, no courses/tickets........no tickets no job sorry....That's how it is in the real world..... Keep working in whatever you can earn money from and invest it into your education. It will pay you back from all the hard times you went through to get there.
what about the young sparks and the labourers and trades mates trying to get tickets and with maybe a wife and kids, a car to keep running, living miles from Colleges out in the sticks? they would have to go to a College maybe for a number of days, possibly spread out over weeks and months just to get tickets/training.....then go back at night for exams on different dates spread out....that's Digs to pay for as well, food, petrol or Bus/Train tickets...
I dont live in the sticks so I can only assume the personal and financial costs involved. as for the rest..... Seems like you are having a pop at me and my personal opinions of how a grading system should be. Here is my end of the stick (the sh1ty end)....
17-21 electrical laborer on rubbish wages. Went into other fields of employment for the money, bought a house just making ends meet. My mum passed away therefore leaving me with my 74 year old Dad with cancer and in a wheelchair and I became his full time carer. Needed a job to fit within his times of daily needs so I became a night shift taxi driver in a large city center (that was an experience I tell you). Whilst doing all this I signed up to college and paid for it all myself + mortgage + bills + living costs so I know how hard it can be. Then while doing my 2330 level 3 my Brother passed away 4 and a half weeks before my Dad. I had two estates and funerals to sort out just before going into my level 3 final exams. I had to do and pay for 3 re-sits due to the time I missed at school but I passed and afterwards I still revised the things I missed just so I know the subjects that I was not strong at. It has taken a lot of time and effort to get to where I am now and I'm not finished yet.
A lot of sparks just starting out or labourers trying to gain tickets/certificates only have dust in their wallet......we need to lay off of them it's bad enough for them these days without people saying.... I'm not laying into anyone, just ask anyone in the trainee section of this forum which I've spent a lot of time in. Also before that, ask the several people that are in training on this forum about the help, tools and books I have given them? I've even taken a few of them on site with me for experience or to help with their portfolio for their NVQ!
"I have money I do tickets, you should have the tickets too, otherwise you're useless" or similar things... Think I've made my stance very clear
