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If only the apprenticeships to do them paid well enough. Perhaps a subsidy to maintain potentially forgotten crafts and skills. Reading Craft land by James Fox
by ktallett 9mo ago
If only the apprenticeships to do them paid well enough. Perhaps a subsidy to maintain potentially forgotten crafts and skills.
Reading Craft land by James Fox, there are many skills we need but we can't seem to fund to maintain.
- smelendez 9mo agoIt's not specified how long the apprenticeships last or what qualifications you need. But even the full-time job doesn't pay that well: $60K/year, after bonuses. And the company recently had layoffs and moved the plant an hour west, from North Adams, Mass., to Albany, New York. And you have to stand eight hours a day, and half of people drop out of the apprenticeship for whatever reason. The fact is that an artistically skilled person in the Northeast could find better-paying, less physically taxing, and probably more stable work.
- metalman 9mo agomore absurdity: I aprenticed with old time masters in more than one trade, and have worked in and around many other trades, and have taken on aprentices(officialy) in trades that I am unpapered in, have requests from trade schools to take on more aprentices, but, BUT, I cant work officialy in those trades, because I am unpapered, and cant get insurance, without going to trade school, and doing an aprenticship first.