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[feralkid]

What age did all of you guys and girls get sick of school and get a job. I've just done work experience at an engineering place and loved it but everyone still says that I should stay at school. How long did you last there?
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[fossil800R]

18. Couldn't wait to leave but managed to last out my HSC.
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[Dino]

I bailed near the end of year 11. I had a apprentiseship lined up, and was keen to move on. I'd been sick of the school system for a fair while.....

The qualifications I held when I left school had me qualified to mop the floors at KFC. ( No Macca's back then.)
If I'd have got my HSC, I'd have been qualified to cook the chips there.

II don't know you at all Feral, but both our boys got the same advice.

If you can't do a trade, get educated.

Good Luck with your decisions.
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[bigjon]

HSC at 18
Bachelor of Ag Science at 22
Been working full time ever since.
Post Grad in Cotton Production at 32
Thinking of doing my Masters next.........
I love learning!

My 2 cents worth. Don't leave school unless you can obtain an apprenticeship.
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[Sean O]

feralkid wrote:

What age did all of you guys and girls get sick of school and get a job. I've just done work experience at an engineering place and loved it but everyone still says that I should stay at school. How long did you last there?

I got sick of it first day.

4 years ago, my eldest son had the opportunity to either take an apprentiship and leave school in year 11, or stay in school and take a school based apprentiship which entailed him working 2 days a week and the rest at school.
I advised him to stay in school and finish his senior and take the school based apprentiship.
He took my advise and at the start of next year he'll be a fully qualified electrician, the youngest in the company. (under 21) He loves his job and they love him.
Another peice of advise, "it doesn't matter what you choose to do............ just do it well"
So my advise to you young feral is don't jump the gun, make sure you have an opportunity before you throw one away.
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[dynamitediscodave]

qlder finished grade 12, then straight into an apprentiship as an aircraft maintenance engineer. still didnt learn how to spell in that time. haha
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[Mart 300r]

Done the school certificate in year 10.Went tree loping for a couple of months then roof tiling for a couple of years>then started a apprenticeship in boilermaking now a fully qualified boily and never looked back school is not for everyone.Just depends if your good with your hands or head.
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[Earthmover]

In mind i left school at 5 age five that is not grade five never did learn much since. Allways worked on the farm or driven trucks & matchinery witch was all i ever wanted to do. I get my daughter to check ALL my spelling "you can tell when she dosent" I've traveled all over this joint. dun a lot of stuff. moved a lot of dirt. Do what makes you happy is all i can give you. Oh in body i left in grade 8 just 2 months in ....Stay at school with ya mates Jobs & trades R ezy to come by. If you cant stay at school for your self do it for the Girls Kid
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[mikerosenkids]

14 and 11 months wagged for 1 month when you could legally leave school applied for the dole but never even recieved one payment the old man lined me up a job with a builder he was working with, We lived in Rockdale south of Sydney and the job was over the north side at Gordon welcome to the work force son - mon to sat start on site 6:00 am til 6:00 pm dam near killed me. Money was good but nowadays I wished I spent a little more time at school might have given me a few more options now.
Maybe Naaah I never was any good at school

Cheers Mike

p.s I will be pushing my kids towards better schooling

[ChoCo]

I left at the end of last year which was yr 10 for me and went straight into a fitter and machinist apprenticeship but i was very lucky in the fact that i was offered 2 apprenticeships at one time one as what im doing or one as a carpenter
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[doorslammer]

i did TEE year 11 and was halfway through year 12 when i did my first work experience block and was offered an appreticship (mechanic with reconditioning experience). my grades were looking bad in year 12 so i took it.
never looked back, best decision of my short career so far. i enjoy what i do, its a small company so you get to know everyone well (i wouldnt work for rio tinto or BHP at the moment).

someday i would like to go to uni and study engineering, but i was never good with studing.

[crx450r]

if you get the chance to start an apprenticeship jump on the opportunity
just make sure it something you will enjoy doing. so many times i have seen people take an apprenticeship an after 2 yrs of it hate it and quit
and lose all the hard work they put in. i left school at 16 finished a trade in diesel fuel injection and now manage the shop i did my apprenticeship in. i'm 26 now but schooling is a important part of life aswell i still go to school a couple of times a year to do new training courses.

[cuzo]

18 and year 12 dam old man got me out of bed the day after farwell night and was pushing a broom at 7:00 am in the city (that ment a 5:30 train out of rivo) did that for about 2 years and got an apprentiship as a carpenter dam near killed him I droped from 900/week to 175.

7 years of tafe and a builders licence and I have never looked back .
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[450dominator]

hey kiddo,
i know exactly what you mean, i loved my work experience &left yr11 to work a full time job at the council. i then realised how easy school life was and went back. I know its boring & a load of crap but make the most of it while you can, working full time isnt what it crackd up to b!!
cheers
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[pcwade]

18 - I did the HSC, but I reckon if you've found something you enjoy then stick with it.

[mrhele]

mikerosenkids wrote:

14 and 11 months wagged for 1 month when you could legally leave school applied for the dole but never even recieved one payment the old man lined me up a job with a builder he was working with, We lived in Rockdale south of Sydney and the job was over the north side at Gordon welcome to the work force son - mon to sat start on site 6:00 am til 6:00 pm dam near killed me. Money was good but nowadays I wished I spent a little more time at school might have given me a few more options now. Maybe Naaah I never was any good at school Cheers Mike p.s I will be pushing my kids towards better schooling

Your in my neck of the woods! You didnt go to Rockdale public by any chance?

[mikerosenkids]

Kogarah High I'm 42 so that makes it 1983 I left school only there for 2 years since coming down from Coffs Harbour in 1982.

Cheers Mike

[OGJON]

3rd yr high 13 yrs ago
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just started 2 home based business'

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