let's go around here and today's exciting episode I thought I'll talk about apprenticeships I got a
bit lucky my old man was already a builder and he was already in the industry and he already
had connections he was responsible for hiring the different builders and electricians and plumbers
people wanted to do him a favor because he got them jobs you know so I kind of had my pick my
old man pulled me aside and he just said look you either want to be an electrician
plumber or a builder the electrician's get paid more plumbers get paid more than them
and the builders get paid the least and they have to put up with the most crap so I chose
to be a builder so I got lucky I had that sort of entry into the business but say you're trying
to get into the business now you're trying to maybe you've watched these videos or videos
like mine and you think building's pretty cool well the easiest way to get into it is to just
start working for a builder so that's first you want to get a job with a builder you're
not gonna get into apprenticeship straightaway you know unless a builder's desperate to get
an apprentice and or if you know them some other way through family or something then
there's a good chance that you you might be able to get an apprenticeship straight away
but builders want to figure out if you have the right attitude first and foremost before they
take you on as an apprentice because they know from experience that it takes a lot of character
to get through an apprenticeship they want to see that you're a good dude basically now you
might be thinking Scott but I don't even have the foot in the door in the first place I can't
even find someone who's willing to hire me as a laborer well that's a hard one and I don't know
how to answer that it isn't clear already I'm talking New Zealand specific when it comes to
getting an apprenticeship because that's what I know and even within New Zealand I can't tell
you how to get a job maybe you have to the cold core maybe you have to walk on a building sites
and just show that your cane and just say hey man do you guys need a young guy to give you a hand
all right let's go back to the job and discuss a little bit more about getting an apprenticeship
hey buddy have a coffee man so this a couple of organizations here in New Zealand that
sort of facilitate the apprenticeship yeah there's BCIT oh there's aia tabs this is
probably more I figured rather me just telling you what you could do why don't
we why don't we just try and call one of them now and pretend that I need an apprenticeship
here's a number of you interested in how do I go about it I do
what about tones is there an expectation to have a certain amount of tools
awesome I appreciate your help Brittany yeah thanks have a good day I don't usually do hey
that's how you get an apprenticeship with BCIT Oh anywhere you need to yeah you need to have
a car I've said that in previous videos when I thought about being a builder you need to have
a car in Oakland it's just a lettuce and you need to be proactive you need to go and trade
me you know you need to be willing to work as a laborer if that's what it takes to you know
get in with a company if I've got enough work to hire someone I want to see what kind of person
they are and then decide whether I want to work with them for four years you know so you've got
to think getting the head of the potential employer and and and prove yourself and show
that you're King and if you watching my videos already there's probably a good chance you'll
Kane and you probably you're probably interested enough in building already I know when I started
I was not interested so you already hated me so I hope that was helpful for people looking for
an apprenticeship if you've got any questions ask below I have had a lot of questions about
apprenticeships so that's what made me do this video Brittany did a really good job so even got
much to do here today we are currently going to make a little pretend mock-up been sort of kitchen
island because this kitchen in here it's going to be completely redesigned and we want to sort
of visual representation of what could be there in the future now I get a lot of people asking me if
I need an apprentice and whether they could work for me or not my full-time job is trying to keep
me and part of it busy and sometimes I don't succeed at that so to take on the third person
would be would be a bit of a challenge for me right now but it's not to say that I want to do
it in the future and I like the idea of having an apprentice feel like could make some great videos