I can remember back in the sixties, they used to put people through a six month fast track training course in the building trade skills, then after the six months gave them a box of tools and an attitude (I know it all) and called them tradesmen
I served a 5 years apprenticeship when I left school and had to forgo a days pay when I was 18 to carry on, on day release. Yet these six month wonders, as we christened them were quite honestly a joke, I could fill a book with some of the happenings, but I'll just highlight one. One of these tradesmen(
) tried to put an ordinary Yale Lock on a sliding door, and he couldn't understand why we were all rolling about laughing. My late Father left school at 14 served a 7 year apprenticeship, he was a first class tradesman, but on the day he retired he said to me "I've enjoyed my working life John, my only regret is, that I was never able to learn everything I wanted about the job that I would have liked to."
Think that says it all to me