About 5/6 years ago I was doing my apprenticeship to become a mechanic. I managed to land my apprentice role at a classic car restoration shop. It was a one-man band operation run by an ex-Lotus technician (we’ll call him Slimy Git), and I thought it’d be a great business to be a part of and help grow. Unfortunately, I was wrong. Looking back on it, SG clearly only took me on because the UK government has an arrangement with various trade industries that, if a company takes on an apprentice taking part in an official apprenticeship scheme (which I was), the government gives the company a cash grant. They’re also allowed to pay apprentices well below the minimum wage as an additional incentive. During my 11 months at that workshop I earned only £300 a month. So SG got free cash, and also got to use me as dirt cheap labour, but I was willing to put up with it for a couple of years and learn the trade on awesome old cars. It didn’t turn out that way.
via @notiun
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