Apprentice Fitter/craftsperson Review

learning at a training centre 4 hours away from home and where i will actually be working, and some learning on site/on job stuff, which is good and makes a nice change

yes several new hand skills like working on a lathe and how to fix and maintaine the equiptment we will work on on site.

some parts are good and other parts require improvement, i like learning new things but being so far away from home all the time when you have a family is very hard.

As a company i feel pretty valued but alot of managers treat you like a lesser adult and i feel that my honest oppions and idears are not at all valued or taking into account, and you are always treated as "just an apprentice" and expendible on at that in fact some of our honest oppions have actually got us in trouble

very disorganised some time we only find out a week in advance as to what were doing the following week, just because we are apprentices this does not mean that we dont have plans, my lfe does not revolve around National grid nor should it!

we receve plenty of support if we require it but this does not stop us frome getting behind in other areas, some time the so called "support" is more of a hinderance than a help!

same as the last question, plenty if we require it or have learning disabilitys but when you struggle on a course or to pass a test the "performance improvement plan" or "PIP" that they put you on feels like more of a displinary action than help and often puts you behind on other courses so you end up entering a spiral of failure due to no fault of your own!

It is better than most apprenticships but by far not the best but lets face we would all like to get payed more, on the plus side it is good that you can claim some things back on expencies but the guide lines for that are very tight.

due the the nature of the training i have no time to presue anything out side of work and actually have had to given up ALL my hobbies due to the training beeing so time consuming

Yes

despite all of its flaws the actual company is very good and th job interesting if you like that sort of thing and i cant wait untill i finnish my apprenticship.

its not easy just bare through the apprenticeship and you will have a brilliant job for life once you finnish, and as a whole the company looks after you very well.