New trainee. Is 4 month training realistic to get qualified?

[telectrix]

college courses start september, so you'll need to be quick. might even find courses fully booked already though. need to ask around all your local colleges.

 

[FatAlan]

Please see my previous comments on Access Training (use the search facility)
With hard work with books and online study aids away from their centres you could pass the exams they offer without going near a training centre. Therefore the cost is way OTT.
Follow the advice stated above re getting the right course/qualifications.
Access Training's business is based on miss selling a dream that you will walk out a fully qualified spark. Read the small print and do a lot of research on qualification.
From first hand experience, the classes are littered with disillusioned budding sparks. On top of that classes are poorly run and prepared, instructors are disillusioned and often in conflict with head office and what little equipment they have is badly maintained. Get your money back asap and look at college based courses and getting hands on asap.

 

[davesparks]

I reckon it is possible to train someone to follow plans and wire new build houses or flats on sites, and only installing circuits designed by someone else, in four months.

Personally I think it took four years of apprenticeship and another four years working for the same company with my mentor to call on for help to get me to the point where I was ready to go self employed.

 

[PEG]

This is an all too familiar story,sadly,and a big clue is that they give a whole 10 months to pay the fee...but only 4 months to get trained.

I think the advice given up to now,is correct,however harsh it may sound.

 

[Squid]

The cours is going to cost me £3850

Christ, that's more than my weekly bar bill.

By about

Don't you just feel great ?, Think of all the extra money you could've earned in that time.
I know it gives me a warm feeling

Lol, I was on 89p an hour..........

 

[Specialist]

By about



Lol, I was on 89p an hour..........

Bloody hell, that was good . When I started it was 5 1/2 days a week for the princely sum of £5.00 a week .

 

[Squid]

Bloody hell, that was good . When I started it was 5 1/2 days a week for the princely sum of £5.00 a week .

Yeah but I bet you could buy a 3 bed house for £50 in them days

 

[Specialist]

Yeah but I bet you could buy a 3 bed house for £50 in them days

Cheeky Sod I'm not quite as old as Tel & Pete , Ha your nearly as old as me

 

[Squid]

Cheeky Sod I'm not quite as old as Tel & Pete , Ha your nearly as old as me

You're as old as the woman you feel.....

 

[bigspark17]

No decent employeer would accept that in my opinion.. maybe as a mate to start. Time served apprentices is what decent employers look for, agencies may accept you as a spark