Where do you think you will be after Year 12?

[TrueLight]

science at monash clayton

[costargh]

More than likely my brother will end up in Science @ monash clayton (although he is putting it as a lower preference) soo you'll probably end up meeting him stefanos. His names peter. remember it lol

[TrueLight]

lol ok, yeah i put higher preferences but with my enter i think more likely than not, getting into science. ill remember the name lol

[costargh]

haha since everyone in FSN is like so smart i think most of us would feel that our good scores will be wasted if we dun go to uni >.<

I don't think it is necessarily a waste. Our 2005 dux got 98+ and became a pastry chef. I guess you do what you like. Don't be fooled. Being a GOOD tradie is harder than you think. My dad has worked his ass off to be a top notch plumber. There are a lot of regulations you have to follow, paperwork, quotes, planning jobs (potential obstacles that may be faced), red-tape. To actually be a good tradie is just as hard as going to University.

Certain tradies give tradies a bad name. My dad was telling me.
[Most of my dad's work is construction, not maintenance]
 He was working in Carnegie. Some old lady had called him up. She had a blocked pipe. She had a young plumber and his apprentice come in the day before to try and fix the problem. She left the house to do some shopping or something and came back, the plumber had got all her expensive towels and used them to clean the mud off their shoes and shit. And after 3-4 hours he said "what do you expect me to do about this blockage... I cant fix it". And he charged her 400 bux for doing no work ( he changed a washer or something on a tap... big woop)

My dad came and fixed the problem in less than an hour and charged her 150 bux or something. He couldnt believe the plumber the day before had ripped her off so much and didnt even do the work he was sposed to do.

Fuken tradies taking advantage of little old ladies. Its quite sad.

[Eriny]

haha since everyone in FSN is like so smart i think most of us would feel that our good scores will be wasted if we dun go to uni >.<

I don't think it is necessarily a waste. Our 2005 dux got 98+ and became a pastry chef. I guess you do what you like. Don't be fooled. Being a GOOD tradie is harder than you think. My dad has worked his ass off to be a top notch plumber. There are a lot of regulations you have to follow, paperwork, quotes, planning jobs (potential obstacles that may be faced), red-tape. To actually be a good tradie is just as hard as going to University.

Certain tradies give tradies a bad name. My dad was telling me.
[Most of my dad's work is construction, not maintenance]
 He was working in Carnegie. Some old lady had called him up. She had a blocked pipe. She had a young plumber and his apprentice come in the day before to try and fix the problem. She left the house to do some shopping or something and came back, the plumber had got all her expensive towels and used them to clean the mud off their shoes and shit. And after 3-4 hours he said "what do you expect me to do about this blockage... I cant fix it". And he charged her 400 bux for doing no work ( he changed a washer or something on a tap... big woop)

My dad came and fixed the problem in less than an hour and charged her 150 bux or something. He couldnt believe the plumber the day before had ripped her off so much and didnt even do the work he was sposed to do.

Fuken tradies taking advantage of little old ladies. Its quite sad.

QFT. My Dad's a plumber too and he comes home with similar stories. It is sad. But, there are many decent tradies out there who are very smart, but you'll often find that those ones are a bit older and went to a specific trade school (not always, my dad's apprentices were all very good/had integrity). Not like now, when VCAL is where the dodgy kids go (not always true, obviously).

[Rietie]

Mmm... I know about that too. It seems the older tradies are smarter than the younger ones and can come up with many alternative solutions to a problem.

Younger tradies seem to want to get a job done fast and therefore do the job crap.

We had some tradies over to re-tile our bathroom and laundry, and they didn't pull up the flooring and just put the tiles on top... this wasn't what we had been quoted on. And then when they tried to put the basin back in, it wouldn't connect as it was too high up for the fixture. The tiles also went up past the trimming on the bottom of the wall. It looked kind of strange. My parents just gave up arguing with them and just payed them less. I would have wanted them to do the job all again, but then I Would be without a toilet and shower for another 2 days. It wasn't a good experience the first time around.

[Defiler]

University, but sometimes I think it would be a lot simpler to just get a 9-5 job with no worries.