So many apprenticeships seem to be ones you have to pay for
Struggling a lot to find meaningful employment and been feeling quite depressed since leaving uni because the job market sucks. Trying to diversify my skillsets and saw a bunch of adverts on Instagram about retraining as a central heating engineer and them offering apprenticeships on a 20 week training course to help install energy efficient heaters that are more climate friendly. To me this sounded great and seemed like a socially important job opportunity, especially because apparently these areas have big labour shortages. Clicked on the website and saw that YOU have to pay for it... like £900 a month? It fucking sucks coz so many people are sitting unemployed at the moment and there's so much human capital that's just not being effectively deployed here in the UK and there seems to be a lot of these schemes and it all feels very grifty. Feels like there's so little opportunity for upward mobility when you're working class.