as this has been released do we now work for Tresham College we're no longer gamefully
employed by Tresham College we've left Gary okay that's quite a quite a yeah difficult statement
promise you're not a try camera have I cried on camera well have I cried before telling my group
on camera off camera tears have been shut no but it's it's an emotional thing in it I mean you know
I've worked here on and off for about 11 years you've worked here enough for 19. on over 19.
I'm sorry just on for 19 years yeah on the flaky one so uh yeah so you uh yeah so it's a big deal
you know sort of over 30 years of teaching you know between us it's quite a it's quite a thing
so is Joe Robinson Training channel the science and principle channel that you've developed
since you've been back at Tresham college with my unbelievable support of being cameraman's second
man script writer often down in the workshop in the classroom trying to do my videos so let's
just address it is Joe Robinson Training going to continue on now that you've left Tresham College
100% yes I have absolutely no uh reason to to think about stopping that I have no intention
of stopping that uh my goal with Joe Robinson Training has always been uh for someone to be
able to sit down knowing next to nothing about electricity work the way through a playlist of
videos and then go and pass their exams at college and I'm not there yet so that's that's going to
keep going you know and that's that's just for for one or two courses you know there's lots of
other electrical courses out there as well so I know there's there's no reason to think that
that's going to stop anytime soon be a good idea I'll watch them then stay home I'll have
an understanding I love it so yeah we we know we're trying to help you on a couple of three
fronts we've got the eFIXX YouTube channel eFIXX website why is the eFIXX website a benefit to
people training in the electrical industry because on there we've created The Apprentice Hub which is
something that we've pushed really hard isn't it so you'll find some of our videos embedded on that
yeah as part of online content but you'll also find on there lots and lots of practice questions
for exams which are going to massively help study your exam nerves and get you calm and ready to go
into that give yourself the best chance to pass him and we've also of course got the download
area what do you find in there it's a bit sneaky at the minute we're probably going to move that
icon around but when you go onto efixx.co.uk you go into the hamburger or the menu section whatever
the youngsters are calling it now click on The Apprentice Hub pizza box somebody said yeah but
navigate your way to the uh eFIXX Apprentice Hub and depend on where we've got the icon now it used
to be right at the bottom yep it it might still be right at the bottom we've got a new icon it's
at the front you're shiny and bells are whistling on it so depends which one we've got at that time
and then in there as we stand when we leave I've put and you've helped me but let's do it
again oh what have you put on there Gary that's interesting do tell what what have you sat down
and learned how to embed stuff onto a website so that what stuff have you put on there Gary
I'll put it on our shared drive and you put it on the internet yeah so I'm curious because I
remember putting some stuff on there but obviously we're a team you've done an awful lot of work in
preparing the handout okay yeah and then I've messed around with with links and stuff and
thumbnails to to get you there and that's there predominantly maybe for the lecturing staff at
your college but equally uh some of the sets of notes have got a student and a teaching version
so if you were doing a bit of self-study and you wanted to look at AC theory there's a set of AC
theory notes but the back end of the notes is actually the answers to it and some of the notes
work like that other notes work alongside maybe a practical activity so you'd be college lecturer
would be working your way through it try to make as easy as you can for example being some of the
rec sheets are already completed by quantity so you get familiarized with the name so you might
not be using the right vernacular isn't it you've said it really good you've said that in one of the
videos I'm getting better so as an example with an example you probably wouldn't want to put twin and
earth would you you'd want to put the proper name for that cable yeah absolutely so so that's there
to help you GSH Electrical a little bit trickier for me because I generally need to keep my channel
going I probably need a college-based facility I can do some stuff at home I can do some stuff in
the studios that we've got as well so with that in mind to give myself a little bit of breathing
space as it stands when I leave I've probably got 50 videos in my back catalog yeah now not too
many people have got to this point in the ramble but just just to advance apologize some of those
were done in one take okay so I did more like the chat I would do a college in lesson yeah box of
conduit accessories what do we need to learn out of this so you get that type of video so they're
really uh to support people who who need that refreshing moment maybe you've missed that part
of the lesson when we generate it I'd imagine it's the same up in another country so I'm 50 ahead and
um and we'll see where that one goes so I'm just gonna I'll leave it at that so
plenty of years worth of content I was going to say when you look at the the evergreen content
you've already created on there the stuff on there that's never never gonna die you know chopping
chopping a box into a wall is always going to be chopping the box into a wall I've done one one
video I think on continuity of CPC well 100 videos almost on that yeah so there's plenty of plenty of
those testing videos that won't go out of date as well so we'd like to thank as well the people that
I've worked with over the 19 years by a month and the 11 years over year we've got people that would
yeah probably aren't watching this because they're nicely retired you're Tom Sullivan's your Alan
Wallinger um you know Frank Shortland for me as well people like Andy Winters was there yeah Brent
and Tim yeah you know we've had lots of uh lots of colleagues that we've we've worked with and
I've you know learned something from all of them yeah I think it's fair to say Steve Wornham yeah
so and there'll be other people that are in this this list the current colleagues that
we've got we're working in a team when we're not individuals we're 18 so we've got obviously Marcus
new member to the team absolutely crushing it yeah we'll breathe fresh new life into
the department taken to teaching like a duck to water absolutely so um I I think they're in
good hands we've got big sexy Matt O'Dell to the rest of us is that his name yes yes yes big sexy
everything about him is sexy is that a not his name somewhere across uh we've got a you
know a strong core team that we're uh we have leaving behind yeah and we're going to support
them continuing if we're allowed to and we we live very local to the college and if there's
um manufacturers that want to spray their goods around or people want to come and
do a tech talks and that the first and foremost it'll be can you support the people at Tresham
college but the eFIXX adventure because we're big fans of colleges we'll be small in other
colleges up and down the country Joe yeah we've already started doing that and we're trying to
to convince manufacturers and wholesalers to donate some materials to the colleges
at those events yeah just to help them out because you know we've been to a few different
colleges up and down the country and you know sometimes it is very hard to get hold of decent
um just resources isn't that you know different materials for the workshop can be quite
challenging yeah and we've been successful we've already at the point of the video being released
we've already been to some college we've done the eFIXX College connections that was really
nice and we've obviously done events where we've had materials donated back to the local college
and the lecturers have been there and they've gratefully received those materials so yeah we're
trying to I would suggest if people are looking at us thinking well why are we going to we eFIXX
um we're we're looking at adding value we're looking at giving back we're looking at
um helping the electrical industry from the bigger aspects so we'll look at the colleges
we'll add value to electricians maybe in building their business maybe looking at
new and emerging Technologies and things like that and our video content would encompass all
of them on the YouTube channel our articles will encompass them all on the website yes absolutely
and we're very interested in the you know the changes that are taking place in the industry
new developments new technology that's coming in new techniques and stuff and that's what we're
trying to cover isn't it you know we're sort of trying to again we often say we're trying to
cover the whole of the electrical industry now you know we've got our educational elements to
you know learners and people who are at college currently studying but also we've now got this
opportunity to kind of just branch out and again how much are we learning as we go along you know
looking at stuff and going oh yeah I obviously knew about that so then Joe what's that all about
tell me all about this so reflecting looking back I've enjoyed every single second of my teaching
career not enjoyed every single about the admin side of my teaching group but the teaching aspects
of it and anyone who knows me and I've had a few messages now on social media uh most of the time
they'll come back with it's the most fun I think I could ever have I I have a laugh at work I enjoy
coming to work and I enjoy teaching but for the time being it's time to try something new and
fresh I think well I've still got a little bit of life left in the old dog yeah absolutely and
you know no one really knows what the future holds do so uh you know watch this space for
any developments uh as as we just continue down this road and see what happens and you can get
yourself done to the event come up to us and say yeah and I don't know what guys are doing you we
have most events tell me something that comes up and is following us on social media under
the normal Instagram you know Facebook Twitter we do Tik Tok at LinkedIn on LinkedIn as well
yeah and we're under eFIXX yeah we're in the Joe Robinson Training yep we're under GSH Electrical
yeah okay but predominantly now we're under the eFIXX banner yeah absolutely absolutely so
that's a short little ramble yeah that's that's it really wow I know look at that dry eyes I
introduced a series of videos for myself these were always to sort of catalog my memories of
where we were each time when we've had visitors coming out we've all across the industry and all
the restaurants which again is a massive thanks to all the people that have come in we're trying
to squeeze a couple more in that way before we go I think I think if we were going to sit down and
actually list the the people who have helped us out in one way or another you know we'd be here
all day um and and we'd always miss someone out as well because we've got terrible memories but
um I think it's fair to say that that you know who you are if you've helped us out if
you've donated materials resources at times fuel in your van yeah if you've
come to see us and the learners if you've come to a live event supporters and and say
Hello uh just thank you so much because it's been a real exciting period of our
lives I think it's fair to say it's been good been good fun and it yeah just yeah
I think we're at that point so um you ready yeah okay I'll I'll lead on this one shall I
yeah I'll try and do it as well okay so maybe the last ramble well we'll be there if we're
not there may be about this this will be the last ramble before we walk out the door um
well I'll tell you what it's got these videos okay no we hope these videos have been some help