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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
Supe, that's total BS. Any quality construction company will train their employees to do the job at hand. Sure there's the fly-by-nighters, but you get that anywhere. There's always other jobs out there.
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Nope. They won't. The VIGOROUSLY avoid doing this. Heck, they resist using apprentices even though demographically, those same contractors are going to be in deep trouble in eight or ten years. DEEP trouble. There is no end in sight to large projects in this area. It will increase over the foreseable future. The supply of skilled journey-level workers will fall sharply over that same period. Each separate contractor wants somebody else to underwrite the expense of doing the training. And herein is a lesson for those of you who think you know it all. Here, the contractor is putting its money where its needs are.....and they are NOT interested in sub-skilled workers at any cost. They want only fully-skilled, fully-experienced workers. At any price. Because the alternative is just too expensive.....at any price.
And finally, just so you guys understand, short apprenticeship programs are four years long. That, gentlemen, is how long it takes to develop enough skill to be called a "journeyman." And again, for one fifth the price, contractors will pass on a second-year apprentice in favor of the five-times-more-expensive journeyman. At least, this is the preference of the contractors who are good contractors. They guys who prefer cheap labor.......are a pain in the ass. Their projects run over budget and behind schedule.