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Hi! I’m Rachel. I’m thirty years old and I’m currently undertaking an apprenticeship
with Central Test and Measurement.
My apprenticeship really involves a lot, instrumentation is a wide field, a very wide field. We’re
not just learning how to fix it, but how to program it. We’re learning the ins and outs
so you learn the physics behind what the instrument is actually doing.
I love the fact that we’re always learning about new things. I mean I’ve got some one
to go to if I’ve got a question, if I need help, if I need anything, there’s people
here and they’re all very supportive.
When we started we signed on for four years and that’s three years of one day a week
we go to school, and the rest of the week we spend on the job. When you get your hands
on the instruments and you get involved, it’s really easy to understand and the teachers
are wonderful and help me through it.
There’s constantly job offers opening. You can work all over Australia, and it’s huge
in America and all over the world. I’m one of two people in all of Victoria studying
it this year; I don’t know why more people aren’t doing it.