I wanted to do trades but no one was hiring 1st year apprentices at the time, probably still. They were all too happy to poach each other's 2nd year apprentices but God forbid you have to START someone's apprenticeship what if they get poached in their second year??
This has been better lately thanks to the "labor shortage." The shop I work in was able to hire exclusively people with 2+ years of experience up until recently. Now they're hiring people with no background in manufacturing at all (because they have no choice). I'm currently training a guy who used to work in a sauce factory.
I wanted to do trades but no one was hiring 1st year apprentices at the time, probably still. They were all too happy to poach each other's 2nd year apprentices but God forbid you have to START someone's apprenticeship what if they get poached in their second year??
This has been better lately thanks to the "labor shortage." The shop I work in was able to hire exclusively people with 2+ years of experience up until recently. Now they're hiring people with no background in manufacturing at all (because they have no choice). I'm currently training a guy who used to work in a sauce factory.