A 25-year-old from Caerphilly has landed his “dream job” as a customer services representative at Bearmach after completing a series of apprenticeships.
Lloyd-Rhys Davies, pictured above, left school at 18 after successfully completing his GCSEs and an AS level in sociology, but was unsure what he wanted to do next.
After seeking advice from his local Job Centre, he came across the opportunity to do an apprenticeship at Bedwas-based Bearmach – one of largest independent suppliers of Land Rover parts and accessories worldwide.
Lloyd said: “The apprenticeship programme provided me with the opportunity to develop my confidence, knowledge and skills, while also gaining invaluable qualifications that have allowed me to progress within my field.”
Excellent news apprenticeship was all the rage in my young days, let’s hope they come back. Nowadays kids want to be fast tracked on everything thy want to start at the top, when in reality they don’t have a clue. Apprenticeship are th way forward
I never looked back after completing my apprenticeship – in my day you could get an apprenticeship in lots of different trades, but these days it seems there are not many firms offering apprenticeships.
I am retired now,but think that the government should not make people work into their 70’s and beyond – they should find a way of retiring people at a sensible age,leaving jobs for the younger generation.
Too true; it is great for high court judges, politicians and the like to defer their old age pension as they still enjoy working and are making good money. It is less good for the bulk of the population. Do we really want 65 year old firefighters rescuing us from an upstairs window? Or a 70 year old plumber crawling through the insulation in our attics?
No, these hard working people should be allowed to retire on a pension that most of them have been paying for since they were 16 years old or younger. Let the young take the jobs and let those in their twilight years relax or take less demanding voluntary work. The latter also benefits our society and quality of life as we have people with a lifetime of experience working free of charge during hours of their choosing for the benefit of all.
The problem we have is the older generations are living longer, and those still work are paying the pensions for those people. I can see why pension ages should raise, people are healthier now in their 50s 60s then they were ten years ago, and if they are fit enough to do the job let them carry on. Youngester these days dont want to work they want a get quick rich lifestyle without the hard work, they expect to be on the top of the ladder before the bottom. Older workers offer more to employers. Lets be honest we read every day that the older generations are looking to go back to work because they are bored. This conservative government is doing all it can for pensions but as i said people are living longer therefore need more money the solution put the age up and contributions up. Every government from now on will have this problem, there will have to b a cut off for age sooner or later, sadly the only other option open is to raise contributions to pay for it. People will moan and groan but what else are we suppose to do bring in euthanasia at 80 to cull the population. Everyone moans at the tories but thy have done more for this country than any other party.
You are quite right Richard – you have given some good examples of jobs that cannot reasonably be done by people in their 60’s and 70’s.
There are many manual / physical jobs that would come under the same category – for example road workers ( imagine a person in their late 60’s early 70’s digging up the roads ! ).
No let the older generation retire gracefully from full time employment,and if they wish to remain active as you say let them do voluntary work if they choose.
Making vacancies to put the younger generation into employment would also help to reduce the amount of welfare benefits being paid.