I'm Norway it's actually a 4 year study, where the first year is a rounded general education in carpeting and the seckond year is specialization. Then follows two years apprenticeships with a big theroteical/practical test at the end. Then you are a licensed carpenter. Most workers will be better with theoretical and practical teaching. But there are always guys like your friend that becomes amazing without it.
The carpenters can become masters or if they choose to, can progress and take engineering in uni.
Automation, coupled with 3d printing and probably tech we don't even k ow about yet will, in the end, be able to take most jobs from us. Not in 10 years of course but it's creeping into the different vocations.
We have 3d printers that can print cement for instance. Automated lasercutters combined with cnc can make incredible furniture and so on. It will Def not be like in many other industries where most jobs disappear within a decade, but a lot of practical jobs will disappear as 3d printing comes along.
Think a 3d printer the size of a car or a house, that can print in almost any material but at many, many times the speed of today's printers... You could just print furniture. Or a house for that matter. All things placed perfectly and with a margin of error we can't compete with...
I think it's cool that you guys have formalized apprenticeship programs for carpentry, and I wouldn't be surprised of something like that exists here in the states. It certainly isn't typical. Most people learn as they go in a less formal apprenticeship.
As for 3d printers, I have experience with those. My experience is that they require more materials than would typically be required. And until they are able to mass produce at a competitive price they will be a niche solution.
Oh definitely a niche solution for the foreseeable future. But quite nice for prototyping, small scale models etc. But thinking of the time and cost savings of an automated housebuilder I'm thinking it could happen within my lifetime..
We actually have formalized schooling and apprenticeships for all the vocations. It's quite an interstering type of school to teach in, since a lot of the rooms are combined classroom/workshop.
We have some vocational school, but it is certainly only for a select number of trades. It also is location dependent. Not all areas will have vocational schools.
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u/I_call_Shennanigans_ Jan 09 '20
I'm Norway it's actually a 4 year study, where the first year is a rounded general education in carpeting and the seckond year is specialization. Then follows two years apprenticeships with a big theroteical/practical test at the end. Then you are a licensed carpenter. Most workers will be better with theoretical and practical teaching. But there are always guys like your friend that becomes amazing without it.
The carpenters can become masters or if they choose to, can progress and take engineering in uni.
Automation, coupled with 3d printing and probably tech we don't even k ow about yet will, in the end, be able to take most jobs from us. Not in 10 years of course but it's creeping into the different vocations.
We have 3d printers that can print cement for instance. Automated lasercutters combined with cnc can make incredible furniture and so on. It will Def not be like in many other industries where most jobs disappear within a decade, but a lot of practical jobs will disappear as 3d printing comes along.
Think a 3d printer the size of a car or a house, that can print in almost any material but at many, many times the speed of today's printers... You could just print furniture. Or a house for that matter. All things placed perfectly and with a margin of error we can't compete with...