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We often talk about how to choose the apprenticeship that is right for you, how to do well in your job applications, and how to ultimately succeed and be happy in your apprenticeship, and following that, in your career and your life. The trouble is, there’s a good chance you have not decided to do an apprenticeship.

It could very well be that you fully intend to complete your university degree, and that your visit to the apprenticepower website is simply an escapist train stop on the long route towards degree hood and a perceived respectability.  If this aptly describes you, than think of this article as the ad posted in the train station that may cause you to stay at the stop longer than you expected.

There are a lot of reasons why you may have decided that an apprenticeship is not right for you.  You want to make lots and lots of money and think that your financial goals cannot be met if you veer off the collegial path. You crave the respectability that appears in your left hand as the diploma is shoved into your right.  For whatever reason, the apprenticeship is the wrong option for you, and your unique and beautiful personality.

You’re wrong.  Whether or not other jobs might suit you just as well, an apprenticeship is the perfect option for you, no matter who you happen to be.  And that has to do with the nature of most apprentice work. That nature, the nature that makes the job suitable for any candidate, is a physical one.

In other jobs you’re forced to think about, to put it simply, some really boring stuff.  But the tasks in your apprenticeship, whether it be as an auto mechanic, carpenter, chef or electrician, will never force to focus on anything mundane.  Instead, these jobs are focused on simple physical tasks, ones which allow your mind to simultaneously focus on the job at hand, while achieving a serenity you wouldn’t find as a low-grade post-graduate clerk.

The fact is, working with your hands, and putting the knowledge that you gain to use in a practical sense is more gratifying than 99% of the work done by mid-level corporate drones every day of their lives.  Physical work brings with it freedom, and a simplicity that has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence.  A apprenticeship grants you a path to contentment that is hard to find with many other jobs by allowing you to focus on your work, and the pride that a person can have in a job well done.

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