Us old gits (70) remember the government's 6 week wonders and know how that ended. In the 70s, they thought that they could train an electrician in 6 weeks. I witnessed in several occasions how dangerous that was.
The school I went to was only interested in getting students into A-Levels and on to University. No information on alternatives from careers advice, and were told if you wanted a job that paid well, you had to go to uni
Not sure what the climate is like in UK, but in Canada the trades are failing because employers are trash, workers are underpaid, and journeypersons are completely incompetent, abusive, and high on cocaine. I support kids being pushed toward university with it's easier work and higher pay.
Until employers start paying better wages/not treating employees like shit, you will not see a rise in people going into trades. We need to stop looking at the trades as cheap labour work
The reason for the shortage is MONEY. All the people speculating 'why' haven't asked the young people and are looking for a scapegoat. If you take a 50 year old sparky, they could afford to buy a house and their partner stay home to raise the family. Today, two sparkys living together can't afford to do that with combined wages. Take any young person leaving school and ask them, do you want to make more money than any other job out there? Guarantee they would take your arm off for a chance. Unfortunately, for the last 30 years the plan was and still is, get them as cheap as possible and get as much graft out of them as you can. EU sparkys were brought in to prevent salaries going up, now the shortage is leading to a slight increase in salary and they want to flood the market with cheap apprentices because the EU sparkys left.
Wireless chargers are STUPID as you loose so much energy. How hard is it to plug something in? Same goes with keyless car's as how hard is it to stick a key in a lock!? 🤷🏻♂️ This is why soooo many car's are nicked and it's all down to the car manufacturers. The same goes with contactless bank cards as you don't even have do do anything and people have stolen your money without you even realising it. All of these things are down to convenience but it's these people who are stupid and then wonder WHY they have money and/or they car stolen 🤦🏻♂️
Us old gits (70) remember the government's 6 week wonders and know how that ended. In the 70s, they thought that they could train an electrician in 6 weeks. I witnessed in several occasions how dangerous that was.
Yay!! 🎉 I won on my birthday thank you so much team.
Henley should find a way to block third party contact :-)
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As a child living in Tring i remember a Glisglis in our house and the attempts to catch it!
The school I went to was only interested in getting students into A-Levels and on to University. No information on alternatives from careers advice, and were told if you wanted a job that paid well, you had to go to uni
Not sure what the climate is like in UK, but in Canada the trades are failing because employers are trash, workers are underpaid, and journeypersons are completely incompetent, abusive, and high on cocaine.
I support kids being pushed toward university with it's easier work and higher pay.
Lots more debt the uni route though? 🤔
Same in UK mate long hours, unpaid break, flat rate, all about shortage of skilled workers is bs, skilled workers should be paid properly
Hello, do you do training in South Africa?
Edible Dormouse - HV line - ready snack, hot to go.
Until employers start paying better wages/not treating employees like shit, you will not see a rise in people going into trades. We need to stop looking at the trades as cheap labour work
They forgot the zero on the end of the 45% 😂
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Glis glis have been around this area for years. Not a new thing at all
Should have called it "Electrical Olds Weekly" 😂
The reason for the shortage is MONEY. All the people speculating 'why' haven't asked the young people and are looking for a scapegoat. If you take a 50 year old sparky, they could afford to buy a house and their partner stay home to raise the family. Today, two sparkys living together can't afford to do that with combined wages.
Take any young person leaving school and ask them, do you want to make more money than any other job out there? Guarantee they would take your arm off for a chance. Unfortunately, for the last 30 years the plan was and still is, get them as cheap as possible and get as much graft out of them as you can. EU sparkys were brought in to prevent salaries going up, now the shortage is leading to a slight increase in salary and they want to flood the market with cheap apprentices because the EU sparkys left.
Thanks for commenting, lots of food for thought there. 👍
Agreed, could eFixx do a video to explain trade peoples wages, impact of high income tax and inflation over recent decades?
Wireless chargers are STUPID as you loose so much energy. How hard is it to plug something in? Same goes with keyless car's as how hard is it to stick a key in a lock!? 🤷🏻♂️ This is why soooo many car's are nicked and it's all down to the car manufacturers. The same goes with contactless bank cards as you don't even have do do anything and people have stolen your money without you even realising it.
All of these things are down to convenience but it's these people who are stupid and then wonder WHY they have money and/or they car stolen 🤦🏻♂️
Contortionist and grandiose
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Contortionist and goat
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Agadoo and cats
Scapegoat and Contortionist
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Glis and Contortionist
Contortionist and bandit
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Contortionist. Agadoo.
Push pineapple shake a tree...
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Cats & Banger
Contortionist. Cats
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