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After a heavy night last night and a too early morning doing kids footy, I came home via Aldi with some bacon and turkish bread. Fried the bacon and egg and into the bread with some white pepper and brown sauce...feel half human now.
Should be good to go again tonight.
 

widnesblue said:
Yep. Teach kids how to do bricklaying and plastering. Normally i’ll do a couple of foreigners during the summer holidays, but not doing any this summer. Just gonna spend it with the kids, going the pub and chilling.
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If your students are anything like the lads I shared a class with when I did my NVQ 2 & 3 in bricklaying then I don't envy you there. The class was full of utter bastards who would happily throw bricks and dollops of mortar at you from across the workshop. The teacher had absolutely zero control.
 
Baines' left foot said:
If your students are anything like the lads I shared a class with when I did my NVQ 2 & 3 in bricklaying then I don't envy you there. The class was full of utter bastards who would happily throw bricks and dollops of mortar at you from across the workshop. The teacher had absolutely zero control.
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That sounds like a breeze compared to some of the lads we’ve had. I teach students who mainly come from main stream high schools. We do teach post 16’s but they wanna learn and get their qualifications. The students we teach are the ones schools can’t deal with, have troubled backgrounds, come from care homes, have disabilities, lack of interest in school. Teaching level 2 and level 3 NVQ, not bragging but them learners would be easy to teach. Sometimes it’s hard to control a large group of learners, especially lads, majority wanna act the class clown and ruin it for other learners. I’m lucky in my work, if you’ve left school, and wanna act like an idiot, I give them two chances, mess up by the second chance, send you home and you don’t get paid. Their attitudes soon change.


In the last two years alone I’ve been threatened with, been shot, stabbed, finding out where I live and having my house set on fire, beat up etc.
 
widnesblue said:
That sounds like a breeze compared to some of the lads we’ve had. I teach students who mainly come from main stream high schools. We do teach post 16’s but they wanna learn and get their qualifications. The students we teach are the ones schools can’t deal with, have troubled backgrounds, come from care homes, have disabilities, lack of interest in school. Teaching level 2 and level 3 NVQ, not bragging but them learners would be easy to teach. Sometimes it’s hard to control a large group of learners, especially lads, majority wanna act the class clown and ruin it for other learners. I’m lucky in my work, if you’ve left school, and wanna act like an idiot, I give them two chances, mess up by the second chance, send you home and you don’t get paid. Their attitudes soon change.


In the last two years alone I’ve been threatened with, been shot, stabbed, finding out where I live and having my house set on fire, beat up etc.
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Christ, fair play to you mate. That mustn't be easy but I'd imagine it is rewarding.
 

Baines' left foot said:
Christ, fair play to you mate. That mustn't be easy but I'd imagine it is rewarding.
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Yeah it’s very rewarding when you get youngsters who turn their life around and knuckle down. I’ve been doing this for 4 years now, I’ve gotten 15 lads into apprenterships ranging from bricklaying, plastering,joinery to steel fixing. I’ve gotten lads who’ve not got any GCSE’s get level 1 and level 2 diplomas in construction. I work across our 3 centres(mainly Warrington) and witnessed some of the worst lads achieve and turn it into a career.

If anyone is a joiner on here, looking for a job teaching joinery, the is a position going in our Warrington centre.
 
widnesblue said:
Yeah it’s very rewarding when you get youngsters who turn their life around and knuckle down. I’ve been doing this for 4 years now, I’ve gotten 15 lads into apprenterships ranging from bricklaying, plastering,joinery to steel fixing. I’ve gotten lads who’ve not got any GCSE’s get level 1 and level 2 diplomas in construction. I work across our 3 centres(mainly Warrington) and witnessed some of the worst lads achieve and turn it into a career.

If anyone is a joiner on here, looking for a job teaching joinery, the is a position going in our Warrington centre.
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Nice mate. That’s ace. I love hearing stuff like that.

Although nowhere near on the same level, I’m a site manager for a main contractor/developer and in my last company I had an agency labourer who ended up being taken on full time, as his work ethic was second to none. I think he ended up supervising a few labourers. He was a great lad, all he needed was the right opportunity and for someone to take a chance. Seeing his reaction when he was told he was being considered for full time employment was brilliant.
 
widnesblue said:
Yeah it’s very rewarding when you get youngsters who turn their life around and knuckle down. I’ve been doing this for 4 years now, I’ve gotten 15 lads into apprenterships ranging from bricklaying, plastering,joinery to steel fixing. I’ve gotten lads who’ve not got any GCSE’s get level 1 and level 2 diplomas in construction. I work across our 3 centres(mainly Warrington) and witnessed some of the worst lads achieve and turn it into a career.

If anyone is a joiner on here, looking for a job teaching joinery, the is a position going in our Warrington centre.
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Had an introduction to paddle boarding yesterday on the lake at Llanberis... the instructor we had was from Warrington... possibly not much call for him around there I’m guessing.
 
Baines' left foot said:
Nice mate. That’s ace. I love hearing stuff like that.

Although nowhere near on the same level, I’m a site manager for a main contractor/developer and in my last company I had an agency labourer who ended up being taken on full time, as his work ethic was second to none. I think he ended up supervising a few labourers. He was a great lad, all he needed was the right opportunity and for someone to take a chance. Seeing his reaction when he was told he was being considered for full time employment was brilliant.
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It’s great to see. It gives you a good feeling watching people work for what they want. Some people have the ability, just need a chance to be taken on. Once they do, they give 100% and turn out to be cracking workers. The is a lad I’ve taught for the last 3 years(left last week) he’s had an extremely difficult childhood(can’t go into detail)been in care for 5 years,not got any gcse’s, didn’t go to school for 4 years, can’t read, expected to live a life of been on benefits,but he’s been site ready since he was 14 years of age. We got him a CSCS card and he’s been took on by a local builder. He was building isolated piers at the age of 14 to a high standard. Built a garden wall in an English bond, on his own without any help. Hope he goes on to achieve wonderful things.
 
Took the ferry from Seattle to Bainbridge Island and back today just for the fun of it.

Best $8.35 I've spent in a while. Mount Rainier in full view so beautiful. Full frontal of Seattle is also so beautiful. Multimillion dollar views from that place.

Only downside was sharing it with a couple of thousand people.
 

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