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Apprenticeships <> Bootcamps And for a "professional" Job its debatable if using such a low status term is a good idea - in the UK Apprenticeships are seen
by spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
Apprenticeships <> Bootcamps
And for a "professional" Job its debatable if using such a low status term is a good idea - in the UK Apprenticeships are seen as blue collar low status jobs at best.
Ask most people in the UK about Apprentices and they will think of the lusers on that ghastly TV Show.
Oh And I say this having followed the vocational track into IT
- jon-wood 11y agoI see bootcamps as one of the few viable options to get a previously inexperienced person into a position where they're able to take on a software apprenticeship. I may be grossly simplifying things, but it feels to me like a trade such as plumbing or gas fitting can be picked up on the job. Software development requires a pretty extensive grounding in the basics just to know what you're looking at when someone shows you new techniques - to stretch my already tenuous metaphor even further, most people at least know how to remove a spanner from a toolbox and which end to hold it. I'm not sure the same can be said of opening a terminal. As for the discrimination against apprenticeships as being a lesser thing than the default route of school -> college -> university, that's a wider issue that needs addressing, and I don't think its going to be helped by inventing some new name for the same thing, especially in the software industry. I also took the vocational route in, and I don't think its ever put me at a disadvantage (if anything it means I have three years more professional experience than my peers). Most of the software developers I know studied unrelated subjects at university anyway.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoThe name for the associate professional step between Apprentice and Degree level engineers is Technician and has been for the last 50+ years.