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Thinking about a heavy mechanic apprenticeship

  • 31-03-2014 8:40pm
    #1
    danielbrogan
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    Hi I'm 16 now and I'm finishing school next year. I was thinking about doing a heavy machinery apprenticeship in lorry's or farm machinery. If any of ye knows anything about this can ye please tell me. E.x. wages. Tools. And such
    Thanks


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  • #2
    tomwaterford
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,768 ✭✭✭✭tomwaterford


    Great trade...more interesting than cars IMO
    Terrible pay though:( for the knowlage involved

    don't even dream of finishing school without your cert & if possible do a little of physics really helps give good base in electronics (everything going that way-don't get left behind starting off)

    do your leaving cert....you have all your life to be a mechanic...very few ever go back to do a leaving cert


  • #3
    quietsailor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    I don't know if it'd interest you but I trained as a Marine Engineer. Real heavy engineering - 2.5* ton pistons & you could be facing 6-9 of the buggers.

    It's not an apprenticeship, it's a 3 yr college course & your coming out with a level 7 degree. The academic side of it wasn't bad when I was there but that's a long time ago - best bet is to ask on that would be the CIT forum. The college - National Maritime College of Ireland (NMCI) is based in Cork so its affiliated with the CIT

    It'll give you a huge knowledge of engines - I studied their design and manufacture in later exams - as well as a lot of related equipment. A lot of my friends & I are finished with the ships now & we seem to easily slot into pharmaceutical companies, the oil refinery, power plants, the Navy so there is different paths you can take

    The money would be ok £20K sterling is what the starting wage is now I THINK, but that'll be tax free as long as your out of the country for more than 6 months so it's good wages for your early twenties when you qualify.


    * = Nope, not a typo - two point five tons


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