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Hi, I’m Megan. I’m twenty-one and I’m an apprentice carpenter.
I went to uni; I did a semester there at La Trobe. Um, I just wasn’t enjoying it, didn’t
know where I was going with it. So I flipped open a VTAC book and I came across carpentry
and thought ‘Yeah I like that, that might better suit what I want my lifestyle to be
like.’
It’s mostly about being outside for me. It’s about not sitting down and staying
active and keeping up with the pace of the work and collaborating with other peoples
and strangers and new environments everyday and travelling around.
At the end of this apprenticeship, I will have my Certificate III in Carpentry which
I’ve just obtained a couple of weeks ago from finishing my schooling and then when
my boss and I feel that I’m ready, I’ll have all my official papers as a qualified
carpenter.
Managing a team of apprentices is really great. I love teaching them things and they love
knowing it, they’re still fresh and keen. They help me work things out, we work well
together that way and it just helps me learn what I already know and figure out different
ways to do what we do.
I’m passionate about being a carpenter because it’s incredibly rewarding at the end of
the day once you see what you’ve done after a long hard day and I think you need to be
to stay motivated in this job. It’s very physically demanding and equally rewarding.