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SamGas
Just thought I would say a quick hi seeing as I'm a new member.
I have been a heating engineer apprentince for the past 2 years, but was unfortunatly made redundant at the start of February when the company I was working for went into insolvency. I had already completed my level 2 plumbing course at college before gaining my apprenticeship, so I am now only 6 weeks away from finishing it altogether (NVQ and City & Guilds Level 3 ) I am booked to start my ACS training at the start of June, with the assesments being at the end of June, so if all goes well I should hopefully be all gassed up by July :hurray:
The main worry I have is with my confidence.. I was really trying to avoid being thrown straight in at the deep end, where customers expect you to no what every fault/breakdown is within minutes of arriving at the house, so I have spent the past 2 1/2 months contacting local gas/heating companies offering voluntary help, to give me that last minute boost of confidence and knowledge as I feel that no matter how long you have been doing something, you can never no everything! Unfortunatly I have had no luck with anybody being able to help, which to be fair was a complete shock to me. I thought as soon as I mentioned the word voluntary, somebody would snap my hand off... but I have since realised that that is clearly not the case. I suppose I'll just have to go on as many training courses as I can to get the best start possible.
So excuse me if I do ever ask questions that some of you may think are pretty stupid/obvious, but now that I am not working I cannot just ask my boss.
Sam
I have been a heating engineer apprentince for the past 2 years, but was unfortunatly made redundant at the start of February when the company I was working for went into insolvency. I had already completed my level 2 plumbing course at college before gaining my apprenticeship, so I am now only 6 weeks away from finishing it altogether (NVQ and City & Guilds Level 3 ) I am booked to start my ACS training at the start of June, with the assesments being at the end of June, so if all goes well I should hopefully be all gassed up by July :hurray:
The main worry I have is with my confidence.. I was really trying to avoid being thrown straight in at the deep end, where customers expect you to no what every fault/breakdown is within minutes of arriving at the house, so I have spent the past 2 1/2 months contacting local gas/heating companies offering voluntary help, to give me that last minute boost of confidence and knowledge as I feel that no matter how long you have been doing something, you can never no everything! Unfortunatly I have had no luck with anybody being able to help, which to be fair was a complete shock to me. I thought as soon as I mentioned the word voluntary, somebody would snap my hand off... but I have since realised that that is clearly not the case. I suppose I'll just have to go on as many training courses as I can to get the best start possible.
So excuse me if I do ever ask questions that some of you may think are pretty stupid/obvious, but now that I am not working I cannot just ask my boss.
Sam
