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Originally Posted by jw007  True and not true lol
The job i do (computer aided design) i could have worked up from an apprenticeship etc etc, but i went to uni had a laugh,didnt work amazingly hard for a few years, met some good people then bypassed all that sh1te that apprentices have to do and went straight in at a good level.
depends what you want, but you can usually get there several ways if driven enough |
i went the apprentice route for the same job, i am a mechanical engineer using Inventor/CAD/SolidWorks...
Uni students that come here have feck all experiance with real design and take a few years to get 'grounded' in the company... I started on the bottom rung and have worked my way up from 7.5k a year to £22.5k.
Still on a crap wage but its going up every year... a uni graduate comes in on £19k
Sadly apprentices are not valued until they leave the company and you join another as you will always be labelled as the 'apprentice'