Pro Camera: Repair Apprentice Pre-screening

[eli griggs]

One possible source of potential apprentices may be found within Engineering and Machinists students, High School and Colleges.

I suggest that one way to find interested students is having a skilled camera repair person, make in classroom or hall presentations which includes a demonstration phase of older, all metal cameras needing basic and common repairs and showing some of the basic repair tools and schematics.

Young people are very curious and being exposed to analog camera repair early on might just appeal to some as a profession, hobby work, self-employment while going through school.

Are there any competent analog camera 'techs' here willing to try and reach out to local schools?

 

[Andreas Thaler]

A German saying:

„Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre.“

„Life is not easy at the bottom.“

 

[Andreas Thaler]

My very general impression is that people today are not always willing to delve into complex topics and stick with them. A lot of things are tried and then dropped because it is too hard work to make progress. But I am not objective and compare this with my own youth.

For us, books or people with knowledge were the only sources. Books on interesting topics were those found in libraries. And if you didn't work your way through these, you didn't get any further.

You could only buy specialist books from your local bookshop, and only references in books led you further to other literature. And also the bookseller’s recommendations. Foreign language titles were exotic.

There were also specialist magazines, but not everything was available at the kiosk.

Things are very different today, which is a good thing. But the oversupply of topics and information can also be distracting.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why technical professions often have problems recruiting young talent.

 

[forest bagger]

I think the biggest difference is between people who have to work for their living and people who do it out of interest or as a hobby.

 

[BrianShaw]

A German saying:

„Lehrjahre sind keine Herrenjahre.“

„Life is not easy at the bottom.“

There should (or may already be) an analogy, "Life often begins at the bottom. It's all up from there".