Thanks to Gold Trowel

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Hi chaps

Great Forum im new here.

Anyhow two years ago i was fed up of driving a truck and enrolled on a goldtrowel course being from west Yorkshire it was a bit of a hike but the course was great but like few of us I was a bit cynical about the "we can teach you in a week bit" but the course was great and its been two years now and I have learnt a lot along the way .

Im rambling a bit now but to put it in a nutshell I have made mistakes along the way but also learnt a lot and now make 3 times more cash than when i was a trucker.

Only drawback is at 46 my old bones ache a lot but I love the job and the crack on site.

Anyone thinking about a Goldtrowel course or any similar take my word for it ITS WORTH IT

One final note I have no financial interested in Goldtrowel and that Geoff,Andy and Chris changed my working life.

CHEERS BOYS


Dave 8-)
 
That's nice to hear, I'm starting the course soon myself, I've watched those DVDs so many times that the guy is starting to enter my dreams. :)
 
3x salary of a trucker.

trucker earns 22/25k x3

66k/75 k for a sole trader spread out side London

Behave
 
A1 plasterer. Probably sitting under a motorway bridge somewhere drinking a can of stones bitter asking himself why he remortgaged his house so he could use the money to invest in the bladerunner
 
Jurek rummaging through old post archives again. I prefer it when he gets weird pics and stories from peculiar Google searches
 
I have noticed a few vans pop up around here lately, with "goldtrowel certified" and some trowel crest thing proudly displayed all over them. The drivers always wearing tracksuit bottoms caked in plaster, is this the sure sign of a courser?
 
yes... and they specialise in 2 M2 walls... generally got more plaster on them than the job... and will work for 60 a day..lol mind you. their having ur pants down at 60 aswell..lol
 
To be honest from the standard of teaching I have seen at colleges competing at the skillbuild competition gt is way way better...
 
I think at real college they do way more than skim boards.. we did very little of that at college, you did that on site, where as the 5 dayers, only learn to skim boards, and small areas at that, because you can skim a board ( and I use that term loosely ) does not earn anyone the right to call themselves a plasterer, but the coursers do anyway...
 
From what I have seen they cant even do that and I have heard some lecturers that college's are giving away l3 qualifications to people who cant.....lol
 
Danny said:
From what I have seen they cant even do that and I have heard some lecturers that college's are giving away l3 qualifications to people who cant.....lol
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hi Danny some of us still take pride in teaching future plasterers - but there are a lot of colleges struggling to achieve high standards with the constant cuts to the budgets, and the private courses that offer weeks training to become a plasterer - who are then under cutting the guys on this forum - its no wonder the guys on the forum are getting pissed off
 
puddove said:
hi Danny some of us still take pride in teaching future plasterers - but there are a lot of colleges struggling to achieve high standards with the constant cuts to the budgets, and the private courses that offer weeks training to become a plasterer - who are then under cutting the guys on this forum - its no wonder the guys on the forum are getting pissed off
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Yep I know that and understand it but there are lots of people spending 3 years at college and and simply cant cut it in the real world... Money needs to be spent elsewhere... I think I read stat somewhere that it costs £22K a year per student... imagine if as a plastering firm you were paid £10K a year to take on a lad to teach and train... you could afford to bring them on jobs where teh money is tight and they get more real life experience rather than spending your time reading books and doing theory... plastering is hands on and only a small part of it should be done in the classroom IMO....
 
by the way is about the game not the players :-) Lots and lots of great lecturers out there :D

The standards at Skillbuild are not what I was expecting and its frustrating to see....
 
I also think the standard of lecturers is not what it was in my day, they focus mainly on being able to teach rather than knowing what subject they are teaching and this is also the case in most schools, teachers winging it. This is not to say all lecturers are the same but I think a lot are getting teaching jobs coz their mates get them in like with most jobs rather than them being qualified to the highest of standards I can see the problem employing them aswell because the right people are not applying so someone is better than no one. What are the necessary skills ie in plastering to get a teaching position?
 
hi Danny - were the standards that bad at the skill build - (solid or fibrous) didn't the students understand what was asked of them

Did they lack skill, speed or both?
 
puddove said:
hi Danny - were the standards that bad at the skill build - (solid or fibrous) didn't the students understand what was asked of them

Did they lack skill, speed or both?
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it actually made me very angry about the standard... I spoke to teh judges and then they let a few things slip about a few things as wel...

I dont mind people being slow as long as the standard was there but it really wasn't... even at teh finals last year... the top 3 people were leaps and bounds ahead of the rest of them....
 
spill the beans Danny - what did the judges let slip :RpS_scared: o no, are you alright, do you need counselling :RpS_laugh::RpS_lol:
 
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