It’s #NationalSkillsWeek, and we’re spotlighting how vocational learning can open new career paths while completing a VCE! 🔨 🧱 🚧
Meet Eliza Bowers, a VCE Vocational Major student from Ringwood Secondary College.
Eliza is a budding bricklayer, undertaking a school-based construction apprenticeship. She spends her time between school, training and working on domestic building sites across Melbourne.
5 rapid-fire Qs with Eliza:
1. Why did you decide to do a construction apprenticeship?
I love working with my hands. From a very young age, I always had a passion for the construction industry and found the process fascinating.
2. What is the best thing about learning to be a bricklayer?
I have learned so many life skills from the trade, and it has built my resilience and confidence. I also love having the ability to pinpoint small imperfections in the wall and how this translates to everyday life.
3. What do you find the hardest thing about bricklaying?
The labouring! For example, wheeling the wheelbarrow full of mortar or bricks. Your body does build up the strength you need over time, though.
4. Three words to describe a typical day? Rewarding, exhausting, fast.
5. What’s your favourite way to spend day off?
Spending time with my friends, family and pets. I use the time to reflect on the past day’s work and on what I can improve on.
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