“The people at my Group Training Company continue to be encouraging. I really appreciate knowing that they are close on hand should I ever need them.”
Just because a person’s father happens to be a backyard mechanic, it doesn’t automatically mean that his offspring would follow suit and share the same love of cars. In Tanya Andrews’s case not only did she share her dad’s love of tinkering in the back shed, she went one step further and became an apprentice mechanic.
Because girls at Tanya’s school weren’t encouraged to take on apprenticeships, it originally had not entered her head that she could make a career out of doing what she loved to do best – mess around with cars.However, eventually the 18 year old put her name down with a local Group Training Company as a potential apprentice mechanic. “I was so scared that as a female I was doing the wrong thing that when I was offered an interview I almost pulled out,” Tanya confesses.
Tanya overcame her fear and decided to have a go anyway and was successful in securing an apprenticeship.
“Upon reflection, I think being a car mechanic is an ideal career for women to enter. Our attention to detail and fastidious natures give us a head start when it comes to diagnosing and fixing problems under the bonnet,” says Tanya.
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