On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:58:37 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

In article ,
Bill Taylor wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 12:53:36 +0000, "dennis@home"
wrote:

On 17/02/2018 11:49, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Another jealous of my job, eh? Love to know what you consider a skilled
job.

I don't consider anything that requires a few weeks training as skilled.
At best its semi-skilled.


The BBC training courses for operators and engineers took about 2
years. Starting off with a 13 week basic course at Wood Norton, about
a year of on station training another course of about 6 weeks, another
year on station and then a final course of a few weeks. You had to
pass tests on each course and were continually assessed during the on
station sections. If you weren't good enough you would be
"terminated", and people were occasionally, although the selection
before you started training was quite good in weeding out unskilled
people.

That isn't totally correct. That's how school leavers were trained. In
1962, faced with a need for extra engineering staff to cope with the
expansion needed for BBC2, the BBC recuited graduates and gave us a 6 week
Direct Entry course. I don't think any of us did badly. One of those on my
course went on to be Chief Engineer of Dolby Europe.

Yes, some of my ex colleagues were DEs, but they'd already done a
degree course, and still had to do some BBC training, although less
than a TA/TO.