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lame plumber
your se rate is far to low old son!
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in my opinion, taking on an apprentice is a good idea. it's progress, the future, or whatever. if you don't take on an apprentice, you still have to do all the rubbish jobs yourself, you still have to get your own tools out of the van, and put them all away at the end of the day and in 4 years you will still be struggling away on your own as a one man band. there is a risk they can mess up, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. if you have an apprentice, so you charge your customers more money to cover their wage and give them all the simple mundane jobs to do, freeing you up to get on with the real job. think of it this way, if you earn £21.44 an hour, thats what they cost for a day. so then as long as the apprentice saves you one one hour of labour a day, then it's covered. plus you don't actually charge people out at what you pay them (1st rule of employing people) so if you add £4 on your hourly rate then over time the extra money should help pay for tools they break/lose and damage they cause
i know it may sound like "give them all the crap jobs to do" is not a very good strategy for teaching, but theres just not enough crap jobs for them to do ALL day, so at some point they inevitebly end up with nothing to do, therefore watching you work, passing you tools and thus learning the trade. then eventually as long as they are any good, you start giving them more responsibility and more money, untill eventually you have a fully trained man and you can leave them on jobs, pay them an "on the books" rate (i.e £12), and charge them out at a "self employed rate" (£20) and then you pocket the difference!
and after 4 years your back to working on your own as he takes everything you've taught him and sets up in competition knowing all your regulars and what you charge.
as an apprentice my self i think apprenticeships are a good thing, we all have to start somewhere some how and less and less people are taking on apprentices.
I wonder if a nice smellimng girlie apprentice might change my mind about having one, as far as lads go I gave up a while back, how can anyone remove a roller garage door from its mountings by just opening it?
girlie interviews only after photos of your last holiday in Magaluff have been received and I have met your mum
I have a 25 year old starting Monday, seems keen. only wants £100 per week. I am signing him up for 1 year initially with a pay review in 6 months. If he tidies my van and cleans my work space I will be happy. there wont be much for him to do most of the time but gives me someone to talk to, can get the radio out the van (which I forget most of the time) and hopefully give me more time to think rather then going to the van and smoking so much!!
you can sack them at any time, with good reason.I hope you have a get out clause if he turns out to be cack after the first week!
you could always get another one! but seriously, this does and could happen, but not really that likely to happen if you take on a 16 year old, when they are time served they will be 20, at that age you think they are going to WANT to set up on their own? let alone have the money to set up on their own? i wouldn;t worry too much about that
At last the voice of reason.
Having gone through many an old thread on here all about taking on an apprentice; which ALL of you were at one point or another.Be it under a time severed journeyman or under a fast track plumbing/gas course teacher/tutor.
The conclusion drawn is: many seem to think they're taking on some sub-species.
I can honestly say, I'd drop many a thread contributor down a hole so deep they'd die of thirst before they hit the bottom.
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