>The only benefit I see is accreditation (admittedly a large benefit)...but that is hardly a freebie (took blood, sweat & many tears). Sure, that's by the desi

>The only benefit I see is accreditation (admittedly a large benefit)...but that is hardly a freebie (took blood, sweat & many tears). Sure, that's by the design of your fellow professionals. It's part of the mechanism for protecting the wages of fully qualified professionals. Unions are often happy enough with much lower apprenticeship wages as well by the way. The two biggest freebies are also the two traditional markers of the professions: -Self regulation: most misconduct is dealt with by peers under rules set by those peers -Protected entry: lawyers and doctors control how many people can enter those professions and who can call themselves a lawyer or a doctor.