take the training
It was four years of the very best engineering training that money could buy.
Followed by ten years of being dicked about the very worst of british managment , the money for a licenced engineer with CRS approval on three types was about the same as for a cabin crew member with six weeks training and your status in the company was slightly below that of the guy who drives the honeycart.
My advice to take the training and p1ss off.