JLC Online: Each of us has a unique path into the trades. It could be that summer job that never ended, a high school course that grabbed our interest, or a family connection that brought us in. On that path, we received training on the job and perhaps some instruction in a school setting. Here, I share some details about the program that provided me with training in my career and encourage you to seek out opportunities that will help you grow your own.
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I first got into tech theater because of summer camp. I started doing woodshop at my summer camp when I was maybe 8 years old? I continued doing it every summer, and was a woodshop camp counselor. I originally started doing tech thinking I would go into scenery. I had a ton of shop experience and I really enjoyed it. I am still trying to do as much shop as I can before we declare, because I do love carpentry. This sounds a lot like vocational school/ training in the United States. I feel like in another lifetime I would take this path to work as a carpenter. I thought about going to vocational school for carpentry but didn’t because of COVID. It’s interesting to read about how it works in Canada compared to the US. Especially because it looks like in the pictures and in the article that you can do this at any stage in your career, whereas vocational school happens in high school. It also sounds so much cheaper than any college or vocational school in the US!
Having a laid out path for many different trades seems to be both beneficial for employers and employees. This article makes it seem as though it is easier for trade jobs that are sometimes hidden behind years of family knowledge to be made more accessible to the general public by laying out a consistent framework to guarantee a certain level of knowledge. Personally I also feel as though the perses framework would make trade jobs less intimidating. Being able to basically go to school for a specific skill using real world experience guarantees that anyone could become a carpenter and not just people with a long history in the business. This article also mentions the advantages of learning a multitude of different skills that you might not use in a specific area but can affect you. I believe this is the difference between being good and great at a job. If one is able to understand exactly how what they will do might affect someone else allows for any process to run smoothly and with minimal errors.
I am a firm believer in your job and carrer path can me molded to fit your skills and interests best. I have had some fascinating conversations with some of my classmates about the career of technical directions. Some seem to think that if you do not love carpentry then that is not the field for you. While others possit that there are so many more managerial positions and roles that are just as important as the carpenters that equally contribut to the finished product that is built. There are also all of the drafts people and rendering people that are necessary for a shop and so to limit oneself to just carpentry is silly. But if you love carpentry and that is all you want to do then there is definitely a carrer path out there for you! Overall, this article just goes to show that if you love something you can make a carrer out of it!
It was really fun to learn about the paths to becoming a carpenter in Canada. Canada is a country that is simultaneously very similar to and different from the United States, and learning about those similarities and differences is very interesting. From reading the article, it seemed like it was common for students to be sponsored by different companies, and sometimes multiple different companies. This is something that I have only really heard about happening on a super rare occasion in America, which is why I was so surprised to see it talked about so normally in the article. I wish it was more popular here, because it is something that I would absolutely do as a way to pay for my school. While the price of schooling here in America vs in Canada is going to be different, I still think that sponsoring a student could still be worth it for companies.
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