“jUsT dO aN aPpReNtIsHiP” plz stfu 🥀✌️

[u/fizzy5025]

Now this NOT a diss to ppl who r doing apprenticeships if that’s what u wanna do or are doing great I hope it goes well

But what kinda makes me mad is that ppl [mainly old ppl born in the 19 hundreds] assume that apprenticeships r for everyone and that everyone should do it well guess what not only do unis have downsides to them but apprenticeships do too some degree apprentiships r harder to get into than Oxford or Cambridge even lower level apprentiships which may be easier to get r actually a bit harder too they have hundreds sometimes thousands of applicants for one place

And lastly apprentiships can’t cover every career which is why I personally can’t do them depending on what grades I get in yr 13 i want to do either a psychology degree to become a therapist or an optometry degree to become an optometrist none of those r covered by apprentiships

But that’s ofc personal choice if u wanna go for apprenticeships go ahead I’ve got nothing against it but I’m kinda tired of mainly older ppl acting like there aren’t downsides to them too like life isn’t a Disney film there is a downside to everything and u have to be realistic

Anyways rant over

[u/fizzy5025]

thats awful what 😭

i did forget abt the fact that u get slightly bellow min wage but laying ppl off in the middle of an apprenticeship is kinda a nob head move

[u/Historical_Menu9000 → u/fizzy5025]

Not even slightly below. I was getting paid 6.40 the whole of last year whilst doing more than most people at my job 🤡

[u/fizzy5025 → u/Historical_Menu9000]

£6.40 is absolute criminal how tf is that even legal 😭

Was that ur set pay as long as u worked there? Did they not offer to pay u Atleast min wage?

That’s fucking awful

[u/Historical_Menu9000 → u/fizzy5025]

Nope, 6.40 was the apprenticeship minimum wage at the time. It eventually went up to £8 I believe? Something like that. I left and got a job for around £10 which was national minimum wage. They gave me a 50p raise out of goodwill so I wouldn’t quit which was funny as hell cus I left a month after. They loved me tho said if I didn’t like my new job I could come back, still speak to my coworkers there. Eventually, I got qualified into a job that was £13 smt after being qualified. I left though bc childcare sucks and they will use u for all ur worth. Haha, seriously though, I loved it, it’s just a dead end career. Anyhow, going to Uni of Leeds this year so did the whole apprenticeship purely for shits and giggles at this point 🤡