Why do people do tiling courses!

[Yorkie]

I'm an experienced driver of over 25 years (time served driver? lol) but I could not teach my wife to drive the correct way in a month of Sundays.

Yeah, you could go with an experienced tiler for a year or two but how many people can actually instruct another person in a way that makes them understand. I doubt many time served tilers as you call them could teach anyone in informative way.
Teaching in a clear and understood way itself is not as simple a task as most believe.

Excactly especially if it was my wife lol

Everyone learns on different levels its finding the one that works for you.
I personally have even taught a deaf guy believe it or not who works within the disabled community dhdesigntiling.co.uk

 

[DevonChris]

I think that most of you have missed that I was asking a genuine question and have had the answers I was looking for and was never dissing this site.
I have made some observations from the replies:
Most of you are very defensive and have defended things that weren't mentioned.
People do courses to launch a new career without having to learn properly but it's ok because they don't have time or money to do it right.
Some can't get enough of the courses because they can't learn by themselves.
Some believe that full time tilers are usually rubbish so aren't worth learning from anyway.
Coincidently, I met an apprentice at work today who spent £1200 on a course and said it was a total waste of time and money as he was in no state to tile on his own afterwards which was the point of the course.
Luckily. he's now learning the proper way.
By the way, good tilers don't mess around doing domestic rubbish, they do 100s of metres of commercial and need apprentices to help lay it and bring home £300-£1700 every day. (And you lot probably wont believe that because you can't bring yourselves to).

 

[quick draw macgraw]

I attended the couse to do jobs for myself and have done work for friends at a good standard and had no comebacks only recomendations. I work for rolls royce producing aero engine components worth anything upto £50,000 with tight tolerences and feel i could teach any one of you to produce the same part within maybe two weeks without any prior knowledge but when i'm asked to apply 25 pence tiles onto a kitchen wall i get all nervous and thats because i want to do a good job and not get slagged off, its all down to the person as there are those that give a toss and those who only think of themselves, i'd rather refuse a job than make a hash of it.i'm not up my own backside thinking i know it all, and thats why i havn't chucked my job yet cos i dont consider myself a full blown tiler that comes with years experience as does being an engineer (sorry two weeks).:whatchutalkingabout

Cheers Steve.

P.S. flying a plane is a piece of pee as well i tried an hour trial and found its not as hard as it looks!! Just takes practice like everything else.

P.P.S still trying to please the wife after 17 yrs and got nowhere

 

[tfs]

Chris,

I din't take offecne to your post mate. Hope I got my point of view across though.

kris

 

[Raja]

Some can't get enough of the courses because they can't learn by themselves.
lost for words here we have an expert

 

[Dicko1973]

Chris

People probably missed the point because of the way you write .

Your last comment starts off like a well meaning one then you finish it with comments like the domestic rubbish one and then the one where none of us are able to believe what you tell us.

Is it really any wonder people think your dissing them. I'm sure people on here pay mortgages with the domestic rubbish you're on about. And maybe we do believe you on how much they earn maybe some of us Particuarly me don't care if joe bloggs can earn £1700 a day, good luck to him.

I don't know if you can bring yourself to beleive this but it is not all about the money.

And I don't think anyone has missed your point Chris you're making it crystal clear.

 

[Raja]

thank u dicko

 

[Yorkie]

People do courses to launch a new career without having to learn properly
I find this comment extremley offensive.

Coincidently, I met an apprentice at work today who spent £1200 on a course and said it was a total waste of time and money as he was in no state to tile on his own afterwards which was the point of the course.
Luckily. he's now learning the proper way.

Unfortunatley theirs the Good the bad and the ugly in every Industry, Training is no different.

By the way, good tilers don't mess around doing domestic rubbish, they do 100s of metres of commercial and need apprentices to help lay it and bring home £300-£1700 every day. (And you lot probably wont believe that)

People can judge this comment for themselves and make their own mind up

Anyone would think that youre trying to put of new tilers attending courses? ulterior motive maybe? Scared of competition? etc...

 

[tfs]

Ok,

I think this post has given Chris plenty of feedback on his question.

Time for us all to stop now I think.

lol

kris

 

[DevonChris]

Sorry to annoy you all but my last reply was a wind up as I felt some of you did over react to the first question.
That's annoyed you again hasn't it!