Have you been a mentor?

[Bibbs118]

Whats yiur thoughts on mentoring?

Do you do it? And if so, do you charge?

Im meeting a lad on monday, he's a friend of friend, about me mentoring him to get his portfolio, ive spoken to the training officer at the tech and he said he has 8 weeks to get his jobs in, anything i should be wary off?

Cheers

 

[Riley]

Will you have enough specific jobs to cover it?? Nothing worse than scratching for jobs for stuff like this

 

[Harvest Fields]

Be prepared to be 25% slower, at least. I have done it before but when I was on the cards.

 

[Bibbs118]

Think so, i have a full system to install in the next few weeks, and my gentral day to day repairs and servicing should cover it i think

 

[Vee]

Would you need to extend your PLI?

 

[Bibbs118]

Apparently not, the college have sent me a copy of there insurance which covers him.

 

[rpm]

At least 30% slower than working solo and you need eyes in your backside.

 

[Bibbs118]

Yes if I do mentor him I'll not take my eyes off him. He's currently a car mech and bodywork sprayer, could be handy because the arches on my 10 year transit will need doing soon.

 

[Bibbs118]

Ok, I'm going to say this is possibly a big mistake.

I tell the guy to get an orange tee shirt like mine, as soon as he has the top we can go out on our first job, I wear a nice orange polo tee shirt, he turns up in a orange tee shirt with a massive Damning guitar thing on it. I mean I did explain that I wanted him to look the part, so we look like we have a uniform. Also, his tee shirt was proper tight, I think he may have borrowed it from a child .ffs!!!

So we're on our first job, fire service .I explain how to pick up a coal bed , explain how they are very fragile and NOT to pick them up by the pointy out lugs, to get your fingers in under them, to support the weight of the bed as much as possible. I then show him what I mean and remove the coal bed.

Guess what happens when I instruct him to replace the coal bed. That's right, I'm £45 down.

Am I being to harsh? I've broken many coal beds but the tee shirt thing? It takes a special type of stupidity to turn up in an orange tee shirt you bought from sainsburys.

 

[Bibbs118]

So, as part of me meeting him, I asked him where he wanted to go in the Gas industry, install or service and repair. He said S&R.

So after the fire service, (which was right near my and his house) I say, right I've got a part to fit, do you want to come, we'll be back here in an hour and half, this was 3pm. He said, no, I need an installation for my portfolio, when do you have an installation job on?

I mean seriously, never mind what 9k fast track college wants for your portfolio, you want a career in service and repair and I've got a broken boiler pre-diagnosed by me yesterday so you can do some testing/fault finding and see what you think it is, but no, he wants to go home.