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| Your Joinery Apprenticeship - Where Will It Take You? |
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| Written by Craig Abrahart |
| Thursday, 01 September 2011 08:33 |
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A career as a joiner gives you all kinds of options - including and especially the location where you can find yourself working. So this means that you have to do some careful thinking if you want a career working with wood, in order to take up exactly the right joinery apprenticeship. A construction apprenticeship, which includes elements of a joinery apprenticeship, could lead you to a career as a construction joiner or a roofer. Here, you can expect a starting salary of between 17,000 and 20,000. For something a bit different, you could always work for a movie production company. A set joinery apprenticeship will teach you how to design and build sets for film and television, following the visions of production designers. A joinery career in this industry can net you a starting salary of between 12,000 and 17,000. Shop-fitting is another option, and would see the majority of your time spent in new or existing retail or business buildings. The trade is all about building tailored shop layouts from plan, ensuring that everything is measured to fit. Shop layouts these days are as much about fashion and buying psychology as they are about function, making it a diverse and interesting field. Whatever kind of joinery work you plan on undertaking, you'll need a good knowledge of Health and Safety regulations so that you're carrying out work in safety, and that what you leave behind poses no kind of danger to the public. This means any kind of joinery apprenticeship has to include thorough Health and Safety training. Joinery is a strenuous, physical occupation, so if you enjoy physical work that involves practical, hands-on labour, then you'll definitely enjoy a career in joinery. Bench joiners are usually based in workshops and factories. Their work involves crafting furniture and fixtures by hand. They typically work on things like doors and windows frames, which means they need to pay great attention to detail, especially when it comes to measurements. Bench joiners are sometimes required to work on construction sites - for example the London 2012 Olympic Games, for which many big construction projects have sprung up - require a lot of joiners to install fixtures and fittings. About the Author: To find out more about a joinery apprenticeship - or apprenticeships of any other kind - visit Notgoingtouni.co.uk. Here you'll find out about sponsored and foundation degrees, gap years, voluntary work... and have a choice of over 300 distance learning videos to watch online. Kindly provided by MoneyHunter.org You are welcome to use this article on your own website, if you include the link just before this text. |
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