You can purchase AME logbooks called "schedule of experience" an everytime you complete an item and it is to the satisfaction of your supervising LAME h/she will sign you off. Once you have completed the engine and airframe logs you can sit your exams and become a LAME.
I did just that although never completed all the components of the logs and never sat for the licence.
Will help you out in kunus working in the hangar when you're not flying and it may be the selling point for your next job if you can call yourself an AME
