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Open Forum / Re: The first time
« on: August 14, 2011, 10:38:23 AM »
It's been difficult lately, not to mention the riots going on here.
I hear what some are saying including Ford, let me clarify.
My passion isn't "working on pizza delivery bikes, changing the brakes and oil, in a crap garage with a bad boss"
It is, to ride and design vehicles, build them and even take them or help take them racing around the world.
One must come before the other.
The current situation is that many of the typical garages want experience, yet many of us have just qualified and not worked before, it's really weird and makes things difficult.
People say "Do an apprenticeship" which is another 2 years of my life, to earn the exact same qualification that I already have, just under the wing of a run of the mill tyre, brakes and oil garage. I'm not 16, I'm 22 and time must be invested wisely.
For the past year I have been looking at options of leaving England, eventually forever. Getting a job is down to me, not the country or economic/social situations. However, I must maximize my chances with the location and way I go about it.
My uncle has a printing company which has business going through the roof, I can work for him, save every penny and then get out to Japan or Germany or even Australia, where perhaps there isn't such a small minded "cottage industry" way as in England.
Thoughts?
I hear what some are saying including Ford, let me clarify.
My passion isn't "working on pizza delivery bikes, changing the brakes and oil, in a crap garage with a bad boss"
It is, to ride and design vehicles, build them and even take them or help take them racing around the world.
One must come before the other.
The current situation is that many of the typical garages want experience, yet many of us have just qualified and not worked before, it's really weird and makes things difficult.
People say "Do an apprenticeship" which is another 2 years of my life, to earn the exact same qualification that I already have, just under the wing of a run of the mill tyre, brakes and oil garage. I'm not 16, I'm 22 and time must be invested wisely.
For the past year I have been looking at options of leaving England, eventually forever. Getting a job is down to me, not the country or economic/social situations. However, I must maximize my chances with the location and way I go about it.
My uncle has a printing company which has business going through the roof, I can work for him, save every penny and then get out to Japan or Germany or even Australia, where perhaps there isn't such a small minded "cottage industry" way as in England.
Thoughts?
