Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
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Could be wrong though! Oilcareers is always a good one to get your CV on, or oilandgasjobsearch as well.
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ShEp
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Registered: 9th Aug 05
Location: Dingwall, Highland
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Originally posted by Colin
If you want to enter the way I done then www.opito.net look for apprenticeships their recruiting just now.
Takes 4 years.
Applied the other day 
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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Im fucked!
Ive no qualifications and everything im looking at needs some basic maths and english!
Cheers for the info guys! was pretty much up for doing the 4 year traning until i seen i need maths and english shit! 
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Ellis
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Registered: 11th Sep 07
Location: Aberdeenshire
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No harm in trying, just try and wing it.
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Ryan
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Registered: 23rd Jun 08
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Not too late to start?
Im sure a local college will run GCSE (or whatever it is you lot have!) Maths/English classes at night for adults?
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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Originally posted by RYAN89
Not too late to start?
Im sure a local college will run GCSE (or whatever it is you lot have!) Maths/English classes at night for adults?
Yeah, Going to phone around tomorrow and see what happends 
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John
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Registered: 30th Jun 03
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When I applied a couple of years ago they were really interested in my standard grades although I'm well past the stage of them mattering.
If you've not got basic maths and English you'll probably be wasting your time.
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
Location: Scotland
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Any other college courses youv'e did watson that could show that you have potential rather than having nothing at all?
That Petroleum Open Learning, you get all the books to read through snd it costs you £200 or something similar and then you have to sit assesments for the outcomes and pay for them too. One of my mates started doing it but decided to stop and stick with what he was doing rather than plough money into it. Maybe that 12 week course is something different? But his just gave him a qualification then had to go find a job
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Colin
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Registered: 4th Apr 02
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POL's are like £90 each & theres 10 of them!!
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
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Originally posted by Colin
POL's are like £90 each & theres 10 of them!!
Aye that for the assesment, that you can still fail and the reading materials is £100 odd too im sure
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Shell
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Registered: 14th Oct 08
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Originally posted by WATSON
Im fucked!
Ive no qualifications and everything im looking at needs some basic maths and english!
Cheers for the info guys! was pretty much up for doing the 4 year traning until i seen i need maths and english shit!
The college does standard grade/higher maths and english as night classes I'm sure. But you'll have to fund them yourself. Unless you're somehow entitled to help with it. I'm sure the leven campus even does them, but if no, Kirkcaldy definately does.
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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Do you get paid while training for 4 years?
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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Ive nothing in maths or english, was a tipical young twat at school and never stuck into anything 
Really wish i stuck at school, ill phone around for maths and english courses tomorrow.
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Mertin
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Registered: 12th Oct 05
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Originally posted by Russ
Do you get paid while training for 4 years?
First 2 years your own a daily rate for attending college, plus
Travel allowance to college each day
Travel home at weekends if in 5 day accomodation
I ended up on £90 a week (£10 for travel to college everyday, buses but I used my car later on)
And was £15 for a return train ticket home)
Once finished college and offshore its £16k for 3rd year then £20k for 4th year.
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Russ
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Registered: 14th Mar 04
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fuck me, can i just pretend i did the first two years? 
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McWillster
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Registered: 23rd Mar 09
Location: Huntly, Aberdeenshire
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20K Doesn't seem an awfull lot! Was always under the impression offshore pay was quite high?
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Russ
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that's the 4th year of the apprenticeship, it'll go up once you've finished and got a job
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Mertin
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Originally posted by McWillster
20K Doesn't seem an awfull lot! Was always under the impression offshore pay was quite high?
Thats still an apprenticeship wage. After that your looking at 47k basic for a fully trained technician.
Plus included in the apprenticeship is all your survival, medical, safety training plus you'll likely end up getting a few courses too once your offshore and again their not cheap
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WATSON
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Registered: 16th Jun 05
Location: Fife, Scotland
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done some phonecalls today, ive just missed out for all english and maths at college so its a waiting game until september when they start up again!
maybe should have stuck in a school
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McWillster
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Registered: 23rd Mar 09
Location: Huntly, Aberdeenshire
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All my friends are now saying this when they see where i am now compared to them. I stayed in and revised during study leave unlike them and got a slagging for it for being an unsociable cunt. Karma does bite back!
[Edited on 15-02-2011 by McWillster]
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