3rd June 2004, 08:30 PM
A qualified agreement from me. I would add the proviso that you should improve with experience!
Other professions vary, and it depends on the wealth within that profession. In architecture, newly qualified staff learn on the job as there is no other way, and pay varies both with the boom/bust cycle of the construction industry and the ability of the individual.
I suspect that units tenders have to be so low and finely pitched that there is no fat left to employ less productive trainees. The parallel in architecture is the difficulty in getting technicians (eg me). Offices always used to employ a school leaver to do the gophering, while learning the basics and going on day release. After a few years you have a home grown useful qualified technician. Now nobody can afford it as the mandatory fee scale has been abolished. (Also of course not many kids want to do the gophering any more)
Other professions vary, and it depends on the wealth within that profession. In architecture, newly qualified staff learn on the job as there is no other way, and pay varies both with the boom/bust cycle of the construction industry and the ability of the individual.
I suspect that units tenders have to be so low and finely pitched that there is no fat left to employ less productive trainees. The parallel in architecture is the difficulty in getting technicians (eg me). Offices always used to employ a school leaver to do the gophering, while learning the basics and going on day release. After a few years you have a home grown useful qualified technician. Now nobody can afford it as the mandatory fee scale has been abolished. (Also of course not many kids want to do the gophering any more)