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FeynStructure · 1w
The Fiatization of My Job I am an electrician, broadly speaking. Four years ago, I was an apprentice. Today, I am a foreman. For a few years in between, I was just a standard-issue journeyman. That I...
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Very familiar territory and difficulties.
I'm always encouraged when I see an older man who still loves what he does and is excited to teach a young one. It's rare to find ones willing - usually they get tired of teaching incompetent lads who move on once they get better at the work.
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FeynStructure · 6d
That last part is a particularly difficult problem to address. Any one company is wary of investing too much time on an apprentice because they're free to pick up and leave whenever they want and go work somewhere else. It's a prisoners dilemma of sorts. If we all did our best to give our apprentic...