Training Courses

[jase158]

According to that link, 30 miles there and 30 miles back.

Thats 60 miles or £60 a week on fuel, with minimum wages, plus rent, bills, food, phone and all the rest. Not realistic to be doing it for too long.

 

[secret squirrel]

Chill out mate :44:

I think you take peoples posts to your queries way to personally, trouble is at the distance of a keyboard it is very difficult to gauge someones answer to your question.

No one on this thread has slated you for being a fast tracker and in general (as a fast tracker myself, now 3 years at running my own company) I don't think many people care about fast trackers either way.

Who does your gas work now? If you have a problem with a boiler who do you call?

This is where you are probably going to get your gas training and work experience. I have a very good friend and I pipe up the boilers when we work together, he checks it I commision it, he checks it and signs it off.

Unfortunately, being fast trackers and working on your own we can't have it all, its a nightmare, your either working or on courses that is the way of it. If your on a course and you loose a customer then thats tough.

If you can't afford to do the gas because of poor wages then again, tough, this is the way of the trade and coming into at an older age.

You don't have to respond to every post people put up, you get more and more annoyed from reading your replies :19:

 

[jase158]

not annoyed at all, just trying to get my point across.

 

[mountainman]

Seems he does have to reply to every post SS.

 

[jase158]

Seems he does have to reply to every post SS.

no I dont! :banghead:

 

[jase158]

Chill out mate :44:

I think you take peoples posts to your queries way to personally, trouble is at the distance of a keyboard it is very difficult to gauge someones answer to your question.

No one on this thread has slated you for being a fast tracker and in general (as a fast tracker myself, now 3 years at running my own company) I don't think many people care about fast trackers either way.

Who does your gas work now? If you have a problem with a boiler who do you call?

This is where you are probably going to get your gas training and work experience. I have a very good friend and I pipe up the boilers when we work together, he checks it I commision it, he checks it and signs it off.

Unfortunately, being fast trackers and working on your own we can't have it all, its a nightmare, your either working or on courses that is the way of it. If your on a course and you loose a customer then thats tough.

If you can't afford to do the gas because of poor wages then again, tough, this is the way of the trade and coming into at an older age.

You don't have to respond to every post people put up, you get more and more annoyed from reading your replies :19:

It is a little frustrating when you don't get the answer you are looking for, but instead a lot of answers abut something totally different, but I am a stubborn git and will keep looking. I am the sort of person that feels I do not get my point across well and this is extremed in this forum as every time you try to explain yourself, somebody else will pick a fault with what you write, but I am in the start of my journey and all comments have been taken on board.

 

[secret squirrel]

It is a little frustrating when you don't get the answer you are looking for, but instead a lot of answers abut something totally different, but I am a stubborn git and will keep looking. I am the sort of person that feels I do not get my point across well and this is extremed in this forum as every time you try to explain yourself, somebody else will pick a fault with what you write, but I am in the start of my journey and all comments have been taken on board.

Love it, I've had 2 replies to my one post.... beat that :30:

 

[mountainman]

no I dont! :banghead:

Oh yes you do!

 

[fuzzy]

100 weeks?

I have spoken to several colleges and they all say the ACS college part can be done in 4 weeks. Where is 100 weeks?

The workplace part is the longest part, from my research it is varied between a certain amount of hours (100 to 200)
to 5 of each of 5 applaince of each type (bolier, cooker, meters i.e.)

What i am saying is that i do not care what other plumbers say or think about me being a "fast tracker" I dont care about doing it at a training centre and "robbing all the work" off of quality time served plumbers and I definetly don't care about not being able to get a job. Simply put, I get such a job satisfaction from my job and want to complete it and be a fully qualified plumber in the eyes of family and friends (not another plumber).

I am not stupid and do not expect the course to teach me everything, but there are other ways of getting experience.
Where there is a will there is a way. Never give up and all that

As there is a different person on this forum every week ranting and raving about training centres I thought i would see if anybody could reccomend a good one, so that I can look at it.

think you may be missing the point, the acs is for experienced plumbers and not designed to be fast track. yes the days in college can just be a handful, doesnt mean there isnt much to learn, it makes the assumption you already know a lot

 

[jase158]

the only thing that I want to add to that is that the college all say it is approxiamately 10 days, training centre says 10 days.

So how can fast track be any different from the college?

And how is fast track a fast track when it takes the same amount of time either way?