Got my ass a job

[speights_bud]

With the end of my 7th form year approaching i finished my last day at work experience yesterday, had a chat to the boss and he said he'd be more than happy to support me though a toolmaking apprentiship:first:. Totally stoked right now, had the most awesome ride home!

[ManDownUnder]

With the end of my 7th form year approaching i finished my last day at work experience yesterday, had a chat to the boss and he said he'd be more than happy to support me though a toolmaking apprentiship:first:. Totally stoked right now, had the most awesome ride home!

Awesome mate - bloody awesome. Trades are hard to find these days, and are HUGELY in demand - even more so in times to come..

Go for it

[Drum]

Good on ya mate. Good to see school leavers doing something productive.
You'll never regret having a trade.

[snuffles]

With the end of my 7th form year approaching i finished my last day at work experience yesterday, had a chat to the boss and he said he'd be more than happy to support me though a toolmaking apprentiship:first:. Totally stoked right now, had the most awesome ride home!

Great to see a younger member of society with a can do attitude, well done and probably deserved

[bert_is_evil]

Nice work! Congrats :cool:

[Str8 Jacket]

Congrats mate. With an attitude like yours you should have a great future! :D

[speights_bud]

Yea i've only been there for one day a week for the last 2 months, so i wasquite shocked when he said that he had no problems whatsoever in taking me on. Big ups to the old man (gixxer 4 ever) for teaching me work ethics :rockon:

[u4ea]

awwwwww thats awesome!!!!am really stoked for ya......and toolmaking must be an pretty intense trade too.......all that techy stuff!!!!!!!well done:yes: :rockon:

[MSTRS]

Excellent news youngun.:Punk:

[speights_bud]

Yea so in a few years i'll be legally allowed to build dodgy bucket racers:scooter:

[Blackbird]

Many, many congrats - I'm with MDU on that one. Despite the considerable attempts of the Labour Government and Noel Scott in particular to stuff up the best apprenticeship system in the world, it's still pretty darned good and you'll be in demand everywhere. You'll also have the satisfaction that you'll add more value to the country than lawyers and accountants (now watch the fur fly:innocent: ). You wouldn't guess that I'm an engineer, would you?

[Str8 Jacket]

Yea so in a few years i'll be legally allowed to build dodgy bucket racers:scooter:

Or you could just buy my KR and have a "ready-made" one.... *nudge nudge*

[speights_bud]

I'm still at school, have 3 bikes and only just got a job which i haven't started full time yet... maybe later.

Good thing about work is that it's a 90km round trip. and it only takes 30 minutes each way without doing anything silly

[Str8 Jacket]

I'm still at school, have 3 bikes and only just got a job which i haven't started full time yet... maybe later.


Its all good mate, I was just pulling ya leg!

[Sketchy_Racer]

Awesome stuff Man!!

I've just started my ToolMaker apprenticeship too!!

It's an awesome Job!! I love it!

[speights_bud]

Its all good mate, I was just pulling ya leg!
I know im just depressed about being poor:crybaby:

[kiwifruit]

good stuff :D

[jrandom]

You've got your arse a job?

What do you charge? $100 short-time, $150 long-time?

Do you wax?

How far off prolapse are you?

[Hitcher]

It's nice to see the BDOTGNZA Flying Squad on the case and deployed.

[jrandom]

It's nice to see the BDOTGNZA Flying Squad on the case...

Always sniffing for a fresh bit of arse to undertake corrective action on, old bean.

They shall feel the sting of my rod.

[ManDownUnder]

You'll also have the satisfaction that you'll add more value to the country than lawyers and accountants (now watch the fur fly:innocent: ). You wouldn't guess that I'm an engineer, would you?

A truer word has rarely been spoken
:rofl::niceone: :rofl::niceone: :rofl: :niceone:

(My brother, sister and bro in law are all lawyers... )

[Insanity_rules]

congrats! Has anyone used the joke yet "So you got your ass a job, what about the rest of you"?

Seriously a trade is so the best way.

[Ixion]

Good for you :yes: Congratulations :thumbsup:

And toolmaker is a very satisfying career. hard , but the rewards (financial and personal) are good. (And I'm NOT an engineer!)

[jrandom]

My brother, sister and bro in law are all lawyers...

Don't knock it. Someone's gotta fill in the forms.

Just like someone's gotta eat the long expense-accont lunches and pretend they know something about their employer's product technology.

The country just has too many lawyers and sales guys, is all. You can't use that to buttress a qualitative dismissal of the professions.

[The_Dover]

fuck, I wish I had done a trade instead of wasting my time on a shitty engineering degree.

enjoy, bastard.

[jrandom]

wasting my time on a shitty engineering degree...

A shitty engineering degree? They let you into engineering school?

Jaaaaaysus.

My class-conscious ego just took a severe knock.

[ManDownUnder]

fuck, I wish I had done a trade instead of wasting my time on a shitty engineering degree.

enjoy, bastard.

Funny - I wish I'd gone on to do an Engineering Degree after my trade...

I did Business (giving a little more background to the comment Fish got hooked on). I've done the trade,and I've done a degree, and I can assure you one is as hard as the other.

I know the theory but it's been so long since I turned a lathe on it might be a worry for the first day or so...

[The_Dover]

I'd rather lose a fuckin limb on a lathe than my mind flying this fuckin PC.

[ManDownUnder]

The country just has too many lawyers and sales guys, is all. You can't use that to buttress a qualitative dismissal of the professions.

While true in the detail - as a generalisation I gotta stand wit the Engineers on this one. What was the name of the ship from Hitchhiker's guide where all the Lawyers Accountants etc were sent on ahead to set up life on the distant planet?

And remind of the reason they went first?

[ManDownUnder]

I'd rather lose a fuckin limb on a lathe than my mind flying this fuckin PC.

Play your cards right you get your mind battered by the flailing end of the limb - you get to lose both

[jrandom]

name of the ship...?

The Golgafrinchans. Ark Fleet Ship B.

Don't forget, though, the remainder of the population was subsequently wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unsanitary telephone.

I once worked at a law firm that employed telephone sanitising contractors, you know. I loved it.

Unfortunately, most of the telephone sanitising contractors had never read HHGTTG. I always asked.

[ManDownUnder]

The Golgafrinchans. Ark Fleet Ship B.

Don't forget, though, the remainder of the population was subsequently wiped out by a virulent disease contracted from an unsanitary telephone.

True - I'd forgotten that bit - I'm not too keen to place any stock in a one off punchline without recendence (that I know of anyway).

Why were they sent on ahead again?

[jrandom]

Why were they sent on ahead again?

I don't think they could quite... remember. It was generally acknowledged to have been a terribly good reason, though.

[ManDownUnder]

I don't think they could quite... remember. It was generally acknowledged to have been a terribly good reason, though.

Something about a marginal contribution to society?

Anyway - enough hijacking. Back to the congrats thread. fucken awesome

[jrandom]

Back to the congrats thread. fucken awesome

I still want to know what he charges for short-time and long-time.

[Mrs Busa Pete]

Good one pete and i will have a couple of celabration drinks for you seen you can't.And good luck with your future career.

[Goblin]

Congrats on the job! A cousin of mine did his toolmaking time and worked for many years in Auckland before going off to the UK to do his OE. The third day he was there he walked straight into a job making suspension components for F1 cars.

All the best with your career.

[Swoop]

You'll also have the satisfaction that you'll add more value to the country than lawyers and accountants (now watch the fur fly:innocent: ).
According to the gospel...
Plumbers get paid better than lawyers in the USA...:gob:
Everyone wants to be a lawyer/nobody wants to be a plumber (thank the education system and crap TV shows...).

Mind you, it was a plumber who told me this...:shutup:

[yungatart]

Awesome news, Paddy!! Big ups to you - and your folks, for bringing you up proper!!

[Blackbird]

fuck, I wish I had done a trade instead of wasting my time on a shitty engineering degree.

enjoy, bastard.

I did both. Presumably that's why I work in Marketing now:shutup:

[Blackbird]

According to the gospel...
Plumbers get paid better than lawyers in the USA...:gob:
Everyone wants to be a lawyer/nobody wants to be a plumber (thank the education system and crap TV shows...).

Mind you, it was a plumber who told me this...:shutup:


Legolas, one of our KB members resident in the UK is an engineer with Cosworths. All the grief in that industry and Cosworths in particular has got him looking at plumbing as an alternative career. I guarantee you that he will have better job satisfaction working for himself AND make more money!

[The_Dover]

fuck it, I'll become a plumber.

I put that toilet in a few months back, the rest of it can't be too hard.

[ManDownUnder]

fuck it, I'll become a plumber.

I put that toilet in a few months back, the rest of it can't be too hard.

Fuck that mate - of all the trades that'sone I'd personally avoid...

3am... ring ring... "Hello - is this the duty plumber - I've got the runs and the loo won't flush... it a bit stinky... sorry"

[Wasp27]

. Big ups to the old man (gixxer 4 ever) for teaching me work ethics :rockon:[/QUOTE]

Its in the genes my son. Good for you, just keep ya eye on the ball, cheers W

[Swoop]

Fuck that mate - of all the trades that'sone I'd personally avoid...

3am... ring ring... "Hello - is this the duty plumber - I've got the runs and the loo won't flush... it a bit stinky... sorry"

Guy I work with.
His bro-in-law was a plumber.
Had a pipe to clear in Wellytown that went up a steep hill. He was at the bottom working on the stuck pipe......
It suddenly cleared and several days worth of sewerage descended down the pipe onto him.
Aparently, he quietly packed his tools away, drove off and quit the plumbing profession - never to return.

[Gixxer 4 ever]

. Big ups to the old man (gixxer 4 ever) for teaching me work ethics :rockon:


.Its in the genes my son. Good for you, just keep ya eye on the ball, cheers W

He is a good boy and what you say is true. He did it his way and got it done. I passed on the info from our chat out side the pub a few weeks ago. It all helps and thanks to people like you 2 these things come around and the support makes it happen. Thanks for the input :)

[Gixxer 4 ever]

You've got your arse a job?

What do you charge? $100 short-time, $150 long-time?

Do you wax?

How far off prolapse are you?

What a sad reply. See you at Taupo this weekend.

[Wenier]

Ya'd think the bro-in-law who was plumber while working on sewer pipe would of kitted up in protective gear to do so.

Good on ya mate, Engineering is awesome. Also means making stuff for car or bike is much more satisfying.

Anyone sent ya to get a "long weight" or "left handed screwdriver"?

[Gixxer 4 ever]

I think he has worked for me too long to fall for that.

[ManDownUnder]

Something I would like to say... to put the trades in perspective.

Having done my time and Advanced Trade in Fitting Turning and Machining, I tried my hand at some University Engineering papers...


Year one - piece of piss. I could have done the (end of year) exams with my eyes closed.
Year two, more challenging, but an easy enough pass
Year three I would have been struggling to pass, but reckon I nearly could (The maths got more high powered at that point).There are some out there that'll look down on you for wearing overalls, being a tradesman etc. Fuck 'em. They have not got a bloody clue what it takes. There's a lot of pride working with your hands, and having worked alongside a few toolmakers I'll respect anyone with that trade under their belt.

[ManDownUnder]

I think he has worked for me too long to fall for that.

LOL yeah - although the long weights a good one... if you take them up on it. Fuck off and have a seat, read the paper etc. They send you for a long wait, you let them do the job...

Watch out for the LH drill bit though - they're real...

[MSTRS]

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Its in the genes my son. .....

Keeping it in your jeans works too....

[scumdog]

Good on you young man, I take my hat off to you, getting a trade was one of the things in my life I most regret not doing.

Stick with it and get your qualifications.:yes: , you'll never regret it even if you don't stick with this particular profession for your whole life.

[Macktheknife]

With the end of my 7th form year approaching i finished my last day at work experience yesterday, had a chat to the boss and he said he'd be more than happy to support me though a toolmaking apprentiship:first:. Totally stoked right now, had the most awesome ride home!

DAMN, you lucky bastard! Congrats mate, that is brilliant.
A good trade is worth its weight in gold, almost literally these days. You show a good attitude already and seem to be a clear candidate for a bright future.
Good luck and well done.