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Hi I’m Sarah, I’m twenty-four and I’m an apprentice carpenter.
Before my apprenticeship, I was actually a bar maid. I met my boss when he took over
the pub that I worked at and it sort of went on from there.
You can always go back to a trade if you ever go on to do something else and you’ve always
got something there for you. It sets me up for life pretty much.
I find myself really lucky in the sense that we do everything and I know what to do from
start to finish. Like it’s more of an asset to me. You never know in five or ten year’s
time, I might build my own house and I’ll know what to do so…
My apprenticeship is four years, and what they do is you go Monday, Tuesday Wednesday
and then your TAFE teacher tries to come out and visit you on site.
The say the world’s my oyster, something like that (laughs).
We do a lot and I’ve learnt a lot but there’s so much more to do in however many years I
decide to be a carpenter which hopefully will probably be the rest of my life.