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There's often a skill that seem interesting, but I can't see doing anything for me in my day-to-day life. What have you learned that was a lot more effort than the payoff was worth?

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[–] Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 10 points 9 hours ago (4 children)

I'm a trained electrician. Despite taking and passing a reputable school for it, I can't get licensed to do it in my state because you have to have 2 years apprenticeship. You get an apprenticeship you have to go through a school supported by the union. The only school supported is the one they own.

Despite being fully capable of wiring a building to code, installing a solar array or electric car chargers I can't do shit with the information and it way a year and $2k fucking wasted.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago

Any chance you could get licensed in another state using what you know (without an apprenticeship) then seek licensing in your own state via some kind of reciprocity agreement with your home state?

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 8 hours ago

That's not useless, that's a corrupt state.

Not your fault at all.

[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

Anyway to get credit via past knowledge? Like, test out of apprenticeship if you can? You may be able to prove experience via hours worked on timecards.

[–] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

are you anti union or just anti this one school?

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 1 hour ago

Reading is hard.

They clearly already went to school for it before moving to that state.

[–] holy_scroller@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

Seems like he is anti monopoly.