So Proud of husband!

[luv2lrn]

So my husband is a sheet metal worker and he just started his third year in his apprenticeship. Every year the apprenticeship has a competition between the unions to find the best apprentice. There is usually only one union per state. But there are about 5 different types of sheet metal to represent. My husband was asked to represent the union for the industrial side. He has a regional competition to go to in Eastern Washington the beginning of February. That inlcludes: Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska, Canada, Utah, and I think California. If he wins the competition, he will make it to the National Competition, which obviously covers EVERYWHERE!!!! If you win National, you take home $20,000. I don't necessarily know if he will win or not, but it sure will be fun seeing him try and it will be nice to take home even a little bit of cash! The National competition takes place in Las Vegas in April! They will provide him and I round trip airfare and a hotel to stay in. Plus he gets paid his wages while down there. I am sooooo proud of my husband. I mean, I know that he is good, but I didn't know he was THAT good! So freaking cool!!!!

[dwinkie72]

Oct. 5, 2007 at 3:41 PM CONGRATS!!!!  i understand what an honor it is to be asked by your union.  my husband is now a journeyman pipefitter.  he too went thru the 5 year apprenticeship.  ugh, the struggle lol. tell your husband good luck and i hope he makes it to the end!

[luv2lrn]

Oct. 5, 2007 at 4:11 PM

The only part that kinda sucks is that my husband does not read very well, so when he has reading to do for school, I read it all to him. Well from now until next April, I have tons of reading to do for him! I feel like I should be taking the written test for him!!!! Either way, it is a struggle and very good experience for him.

 His company already thinks very highly of him. When he was in his second year apprenticeship, he was given a company van to start running work. He is the only apprentice in history to start running his own work that early in the apprenticeship. You have to be a journeyman before they will let you run your own work! He is an apprentice that has journeyman working for him now on  BIG jobs!!! So proud of him!

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[lilmama479]

Oct. 8, 2007 at 2:59 PM Yeah! I hope he wins.