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<blockquote data-quote="Fishfiles" data-source="post: 23521" data-attributes="member: 782"><p>I 'll tell you how I got experience , my Dad was an Operating Engineer out of the Local Union for 53 years , he passed a year ago , I wanted to be an operator when I graduated high school in 1976 , the Union had two Apprenticeship classes . one for Operators and one for Mechanics , I was into cars , motorcycles and boats and was pretty handy fixing them up , but I wanted to operate , he talked me into going for mechanics as he said the mechanics got more over time , didn't rain out as they could always work in the shop and that I would pick up operating on a lot more different machines along the way , " If you can't run it , how can you fix it " , he was right ----I went thru a 4 year program where I worked for construction equipment contractors and service companies in the area under a journey man mechanic as a regular job , started at 60% of scale wages , went to class 2 times a week for 3 hours each night for book work , and every 6 months to a two week hands on , 8 hour a day training session , and got 5% raise if completed , took 6 months of 3 hours a day welding classes on the side from a voteck school--------been into equipment for 33 years this April and have done alot things , mostly fix them but have had some operating jobs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fishfiles, post: 23521, member: 782"] I 'll tell you how I got experience , my Dad was an Operating Engineer out of the Local Union for 53 years , he passed a year ago , I wanted to be an operator when I graduated high school in 1976 , the Union had two Apprenticeship classes . one for Operators and one for Mechanics , I was into cars , motorcycles and boats and was pretty handy fixing them up , but I wanted to operate , he talked me into going for mechanics as he said the mechanics got more over time , didn't rain out as they could always work in the shop and that I would pick up operating on a lot more different machines along the way , " If you can't run it , how can you fix it " , he was right ----I went thru a 4 year program where I worked for construction equipment contractors and service companies in the area under a journey man mechanic as a regular job , started at 60% of scale wages , went to class 2 times a week for 3 hours each night for book work , and every 6 months to a two week hands on , 8 hour a day training session , and got 5% raise if completed , took 6 months of 3 hours a day welding classes on the side from a voteck school--------been into equipment for 33 years this April and have done alot things , mostly fix them but have had some operating jobs [/QUOTE]
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