Matt Bone (35) - Now An Electrician
Hi, my name’s Matt Bone, I’m 35, I live in Somerset in Glastonbury, my previous employment was as a Graphic Designer for 15 years and i basically just got a bit bored with sitting behind a desk all day and just fancied a new lease of life.
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So I found myself a job working on a building site for a friend, enjoyed that a lot and then fancied trying to get into it myself so I started looking around for a course and found NCS via a Google search, went into it, met their chap who came round to see me, a very helpful guy and I liked the sound of the course; it fitted my lifestyle, it enabled me to continue working and also learn at the same time.
The course took me roughly 6 months, I thoroughly enjoyed it, started my own company quite soon after, I’ve been trading for about 9 months.
The size of the classes at NCS are really good and I think we had 10 to a dozen people on each course, the nice thing is you actually get to meet different people each time you do a course, because the rate everyone goes through their particular assessment is slow or fast, depending on how much time you can dedicate to it, so you do tend to meet quite a few different people over the entirety of the course which I found was really nice.
Enrolling on the course at NCS has been a worthwhile decision. It’s really changed my life; it’s given me the flexibility I need as a parent and as a businessman. I’m enjoying it, meeting a lot of different people every day, yes it has its pressures but I think it’s really enabled me to do what I want to do with my life.
The tutors are fantastic, all of them are professional electricians who’ve stepped into the roles of tutoring at NCS; really good guys, very friendly, very knowledgeable and really just kind of where I needed ask any questions I felt comfortable to do so.
I really enjoy doing what I do, purely because whereas before I was sat in an office, day in, day out, looking at the same wall, the same computer screen, this is a total change of lifestyle. I’ve been running my own business now, I’m out meeting new people every day, I’ve currently got an apprentice working with me, a young lad, 18, I’d like to take my apprentice and maybe get him his own van and just expand the company, take a few more guys on, we’ll have to wait and see.
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