Getting there
I completed my apprenticeship a few years ago. We travelled to adelaide and got $1100 for our 2 weeks away, so out came accomodation travel, exam fees and school fees for even some.
The LAME's i learnt from were keen and friendly in there approach to pass there knowledge on and assist me with my progression. Did you know that a hairdresser get $2000 a year for tools we got a one off $1000. Makes for an expensive pair of scissors!
We all need to pass what we can on to allow fresh blood into the industry, but CASA make it unappealing from the point of fees and the end result salary is way down on others, but for one reason or another we still do it.
Hopefully the government can assist this sooner.