Hello,
I'm Luke, I'm 25 and from the UK. I have been working in the Hospitality industry for nearly a decade, but have now decided to pursue a career in Engineering. I'm particularly interested in Electrical/ Mechanical practices but currently I do not have a specific end role. I'm rather ambitious and would like to progress as much as possible throughout my career ideally leading to a senior position once qualified with adequate experience. I find it difficult to pin down an exact discipline to head towards because I find many different areas of engineering interesting and I do not want to limit my opportunities when I already feel on the back foot by coming in to the field at an older age.
My current situation is as follows; After failing to obtain junior/ apprenticeship roles I have contacted a local college and enrolled on their two year (part time) HNC course in Electical/ General Engineering. This is with the aim of finding employment during the course. Since applying to college, the opportunity has arisen for me to undertake a Land-Based Service Engineering Technician Apprenticeship which will take place over three years.
I do not know whether to commit to the apprenticeship and achieve qualification to Level 3 after three years (with vocational experience), or to attend the HNC at college and achieve Level 4 after two years (with potentially no vocational experience except any and all work experience I can obtain in that time).
Any advice or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you for reading.
