Brits long to ditch office jobs to become Electricians, Plumbers and Builders with a 68% increase in applications for apprentice schemes during Summer Months.
Office workers throughout the UK could soon be downing their pens and paper and picking up tools of a different kind. New statistics from a recent study reveal an increase of 68% in office workers applying for apprenticeship schemes during the summer months.
C.K tools conducted a study in order to discover why they received so many more queries regarding their apprenticeship scheme in the summer months. It seems as the hot weather arrives, office workers want to go and look at different careers which could see them working outdoors.
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“I’d love to just turn off my PC and go and sit on a building site” comments office worker James Howlett from London, “You look out the window and see the people working in the street, enjoying the sun, and you can’t help but wish you were out there with them.”
This is echoed all across the UK and the people questioned would not be the first to quit the rat race for a sunnier career. “I had been working in an office in Manchester for two years when I decided to take the plunge, quit my boring, pencil pushing job and started an apprenticeship with a local Electrician.” Trish Philips explains “It was the best thing I ever did. I was getting paid peanuts to do a job monkeys could do, now I get a great wage to do a job that really needs my abilities and skill. And it’s a bonus being outside on sunny days like today.”
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This comes as no real surprise to Tina Skinner of C.K “People are fed up with being surrounded by virtual red-tape and office politics. They hate doing menial jobs all year round, but it becomes especially unpleasant when the sun is shining and they can see people outside enjoying the weather and their work. We have been supporting apprenticeships for some time now as they are a great way for people in jobs they hate, not reaching their full potential, to develop a skilled career.”
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