Are Apprenticeships ‘Better’ Than Universities?

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 25 February 2022

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A question that often gets floated around the entrepreneurship, business and parental circles is whether apprenticeships, that is practical experience alongside learning, is better than going to university. In this episode, Rob explores this opinion, what people mean when they say ‘better’ and what things need to be considered before someone decides one way or the other. KEY TAKEAWAYS When apprentice Joshua Mims was interviewed for national apprenticeship week, he said he valued his apprentice because he got hands on real experience. He got to see up close what he would be doing for work in the next few years at least and it also opened up many doors for him. At age 17-18 it can be really difficult to decide what to do for the rest of your life. One of the upsides of an apprenticeship is it gives you a skill, lets you earn whilst you learn as well as giving you a true experience of what you will be doing – without any debt. Rob can give a long list of millionaires and billionaires who either didn’t get a university education or don’t attribute this education to their success. Of course, if you know you want to be a doctor or a lawyer of course go to university but if you know you want to be an entrepreneur, maybe reconsider and look at what other options are available to you. BEST MOMENTS “Earn while you learn and learn while you earn and then try things out!” “You can try two or three vocations before you know which is the right one for you” “The private sector system, I just don’t think school or college is set up and built for that” “Be very careful how you project onto your kids, surely what you want to give your kids is resourcefulness” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter https://robmoore.com/podbooks rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0	If you do not know what you want to do with your life, go and try some stuff.
0:02.9	Have you ever dated and then realise, I don't want to marry that person?
0:06.6	If you had to contractually be hundreds of thousands in debt,
0:10.0	going on your first date and your first relationship, you probably wouldn't do it.
0:14.1	You need to try a few things before you know what you want.
0:18.5	Our apprenticeships better than going to college or university.
0:22.8	Now I have a very strong and clear opinion on this and it's not always the most popular,
0:28.7	but I was really reading a really fascinating article about a young apprentice who is actually
0:36.4	national apprenticeship week and I definitely think there needs to be more resources for young,
0:45.5	well all of us actually, for people to become entrepreneurs, for people to add value on contribute
0:53.9	to society and get paid well and not be 25 and 30 and 40 and 50 years old and be drowning in debt.
1:01.7	So I definitely think there needs to be some changes in the system.
1:06.2	However, let me tell you the story of this apprentice for national apprenticeship week.
1:11.3	Now by the way, apprenticeships are not just for 19-year-olds.
1:16.5	They can be for 40-year-olds or 50-year-olds.
1:21.0	So National Apprenticeship Week, a teenager named Joshua Mims, who was starting an apprenticeship
1:28.5	at an electricity and gas company, he says that being on site and seeing the scale of the work
1:36.8	is amazing and incredible. He also says that it's much better because it opens a lot of doors
1:44.7	for contacts and you get direction and earning capacity when you don't know what you want to do.
1:51.7	So one of the big problems with college or uni is it's often too early to know what you want
1:57.6	to do with your life. So by the way, let me know in the comments if you went to college or university.
2:03.7	I did, but at age 17 and 18 all I knew is that I wanted to drink and I wanted to date.
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