Apprenticeship?

[ShinerWhinner]

So here i am just looking on craigslist for a honda cb to convert into a cafe racer and i come across this!

http://daytona.craigslist.org/mcy/1539841072.html

It is litteraly 20 mins from my house! I am walking in there tomorrow and asking for an apprenticeship! I will work for free if they teach me the tools of the trade. Sounds like a fair pay off right?

 

[dakine_surf]

That is never a bad way to go... After I graduated college a couple years back there were no jobs available (still not much.) Anyway, I had never cooked before, but I really liked good food. I took an apprenticeship under a Chef in Seattle, and she taught me everything, I didn't make much at first but it was a small restaurant and I quickly worked my way to Sous Chef in about a year.

Even though now I am not cooking and in a totally different industry, I still would not change a thing. My chef was Korean so Apprenticeships are more common in her country. She really poured her heart and soul into my education and I will never forget what I learned.

I guess what I am trying to say is DO IT! If you can spare the time, see if they will teach you, just be prepared to do bitch work, and possibly not turn a wrench for a while.

 

[crazypj]

Wyotech has a school in Daytona with probably few hundred if not thousand students looking for jobs.
MMI is in Orlando with another couple of thousand students, many of them need jobs.
Some students are willing to work for nothing if they can get some experience, so, any bike shop in the area can pay minimum wage (or less?)
Try it, you got nothing to lose (maybe?)

PJ

 

[dakine_surf]

PJ is right, there are a million kids out there looking to work for next to nothing. If you are here at DTT then chances are you have a passion of bikes, and more specifically, smaller British and Jap bikes which is what they seem to cater to. I would bet that if you show up and are enthusiastic to learn and share a common bond with the guys in the shop, then that will go further than the punk kid who wants to build "choppers" right outta Wyotech.

 

[ShinerWhinner]

Well thanks guys for all the encouragement! But unfortunatley the guy was not letting me apprentice there because of insurance reason, which i completely understood. The good thing though was that we really hit it off and he saw my passion for classic bikes and we talked for 3 hours about them.

So after all was said and done i ended up with a new friend that has connections all over the united states so when time comes i can get a bike (cb360,cb550) that is in good running condition with low miles that i can turn cafe. So the trip was not completly worthless ;D

Then i come home to check my email and i find a reply back from a motorcycle shop that is 7 mins from my house that i applied for about 3 weeks ago and it read....

Hey Chris,

Stop by we would like to meet you face to face. Ask for Glen or Arnold. Come dressed to possibly get dirty.

Thank you,
Glen
Miller's Custom Parts, Inc.


So i am going to talk to them tomorrow! They are not a classic bike shop but it is still a bike shop!