Why Abi chose an apprenticeship over a University

<v Speaker 1>Hi, I'm ABI and I'm doing an apprenticeship. I chose
<v Speaker 1>not to do to UNI because I've done quite a
<v Speaker 1>lot of academic education throughout my life and I thought
<v Speaker 1>it would be better to have somewhere to direct myself.
<v Speaker 1>Doing a Level four with own apprenticeship allowed me to
<v Speaker 1>start a job and be more interested in what I
<v Speaker 1>was doing, and then carry on my education beside it.
<v Speaker 1>Because I've never had a full job before, so doing
<v Speaker 1>anything where you're relied upon to do something and you
<v Speaker 1>need to be there every day, and it's a lot
<v Speaker 1>more full on. Even with college. College used to doing
<v Speaker 1>maybe two or three hours of work a day. It's
<v Speaker 1>good to work with lots of different people that know
<v Speaker 1>what they're doing. They've done things before that and they
<v Speaker 1>can relate to what you're doing. But they also have
<v Speaker 1>a lot more information on it as well. It's good
<v Speaker 1>that you get a degree out of it. You're not
<v Speaker 1>just working, but you have something at the end that
<v Speaker 1>you've got that you can show. And I work towards
<v Speaker 1>what my team are doing. Six monthly placements in my apprenticeship,
<v Speaker 1>so I'll stay here for six months and I'll go
<v Speaker 1>to the other end of the office six months, but
<v Speaker 1>we are doing design proving I'm in, and that's basically
<v Speaker 1>testing the software that's going to be used. But then
<v Speaker 1>you also do like field days where you go out
<v Speaker 1>and service submarines and things. Everything that's going on you
<v Speaker 1>kind of pick up and it just tells you the
<v Speaker 1>way of how a business works and how being at
<v Speaker 1>work needs you to concentrate on different things you can
<v Speaker 1>move on to do a chartership. Being at work helps
<v Speaker 1>you with the evidence you need because you need physical
<v Speaker 1>evidence of work you've done and projects you've done to
<v Speaker 1>get a chartership.
<v Speaker 2>As an engineer, going to university isn't just about doing
<v Speaker 2>a course more than just doing your UNI words, because
<v Speaker 2>it really helps you get to know new people. When
<v Speaker 2>you're picking a GCCS, pick something that you love, something
<v Speaker 2>that you are good at, and something that you think
<v Speaker 2>is going to be useful. No matter what course you do,
<v Speaker 2>it's not so much about what specific subjects you learn
<v Speaker 2>within that course. It's about the skills that you develop
<v Speaker 2>during the course.