ROV course output versus uptake

jamesmc wrote:

InnerState wrote: jamesmc wrote: InnerState wrote: jamesmc wrote: You can get all the above as a trainee at the company workshop and in your first trip offshore and be paid for the privilege of learning. Kindly advise the location of any such company workshops near Gainsborough, Lincolnshire. IS Why? You made the statement "You can get all the above as a trainee at the company workshop and in your first trip offshore and be paid for the privilege of learning." So I'm asking who these companies are in order to help other people in my area avoid the hideous training school fees. IS It won't be at anyones front door! Plus, I and probably most working offshore, feel a trainee should be useful to the industry from the get go and be prepared to travel to where the training/work is. When I left the military (Royal Engineers) I lived in Brighton... I had to go to Aberdeen and knock on doors for weeks, living in B&B, to try and get a start. I came back with nothing the first trip. At the time I was a diver. It wasn't until the following year that I got a start. As Cunuck1 suggests below... if you want to succeed in ROV you need to bring something to the industry. A Bricklayer (car salesman, HGV driver, et al. ) having completed an ROV course brings nothing, bar maybe enthusiasm, The industry needs technically trained and experienced people not ROV wannabes that are not technically minded. A technically trained and experienced electrical or hydraulic tech is far more likely to succeed IMHO. The bulk of the rest will generally be in for a huge disappointment and an empty bank account. If people are not selected by an ROV company based on their existing proven technical abilities and, on not being selected, feel that maybe an ROV course might be the way into the game instead, it will likely end in tears!

No problem with any of that, you just made it sound as if anybody could nip down the road to their local ROV company!

I agree with all of your points entirely.

IS