I would get a 2nd job mate or offer my services on weekends..
My theory is if you want something bad enough you will get it.
We all start at the bottom or at least most do other are offering similar things. I was paid £40 quid a week YTS at a golf club so i learnt to caddy quick and ended up on £200 quid a week.
It a start for somebody it up to them to grab it we live in a nanny state people expect everything on a plate.
Are you unemployed at the minute ? you sound very negative somebody is going to get a chance, It is up to them what they do with that chance....
Agree with Tom either go to collage and earn nothing now maybe more later or take a chance go part to college and learn a trade and get a bit of money.
If i was 16 i would be straight there....
Very limited jobs in the industry and this is target at a audience will not suit all but it is there...
I complete agree with this comment. I spend most weeks talking to other staff/businesses about kids who will end up NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training).
There has been a culture, which comes from government level, which has led kids becoming completely disaffected with education - and rightly so.
As a teacher, I get annoyed with subjects, including my own at times, which have no barring in industries which these kids my go into.
Also, don't get me started on the lack of funding which stops certain students picking up the skills they need to survive in the real world. Not everyone wants to study for years and pick up tens of thousands of pounds worth of debt so they can become a teacher or a lawyer. Some people ACTUALLY want to become plumbers, electricians etc. A message I believe has been lost over the last 10 years - so I think YTS/apprenticeships are the right way to go. (Funnily enough, this loss of focus has actually made UKIP popular in some constituencies - skills gaps filled by 'eastern europeans'!)
HOWEVER, it is amazing how many businesses moan that they can't get kids with the right skills, moan about the state of education in the UK then when you ask them about running apprenticeships, they turn around and say 'Well it isn't our responsibility' or stall and make up an excuse using the state of the current economic climate!
At least M&H have put their money where their mouth is!
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