On Sat, 17 Feb 2018 17:16:35 +0000, "dennis@home"
wrote:

On 17/02/2018 13:32, 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.

You have to be kidding.
I can understand engineers needing a lot of training, but operators.


No, I'm not kidding. Good operators are highly skilled people. There's
a lot more to operating in a broadcast environment than you seem to
think.