That was back in the days when all we had was bungee elastic straps,no mobile fone, no lap top only pagers, but must admit i got my ACT together when I went into self employment.
The engineers were very unhelpful towards each other in them days, no advice and if you cocked up you took the consequences,unlike me who will help anyone.
Iam not ashamed to admit that the first scanny I crashed i bent the pins on the nvm, no one told me there was such a thing as an insert/removal tool.
You asked for advice and got none, not a nice environment or trade to be in in those days, also one senior engineer had one apprentice under their wing but was used as a skivey and taught nothing.Not suprising really that most left in pursuit of another career.
The ones that stuck the apprenticeship were thrown in at the deep end after learning very little, and were expected to make their own way or in some cases muddle through,without being taught the relevant skills in the trade.
Thank god for modern apprenticeships today, but still there is a lot of undertrained out there who are employed by the larger co's, but do get help and advice if needed.
Yep it's still a dog eat dog world, but a lot less relaxed and friendlier towards engineering colleagues.
e manno, October 2012
