Just curious, in this day and age, if you have someone my age (25) come to you and say hay I wanna learn gunsmithing ( or cabinet making , mechanic work ect) is there anyway I could be an unpaid apprentice ?
What would you say ?
I'm just curious because I hear older guys talk about how they would sweep the floors at a local machine shops or something just to pick up this or that and try and learn. But now days .....well, anytime I've ever asked I get some really weird looks . I've gotten some to say yes but in general it's just a polite no .
Then again I'm not the best student for a lot of people I've learned ( also not the best teacher for many) so might be for the best but anyhow, what would you say ?
Edit: Hmmm, ok I don't think I framed what I trying g to say correctly. Ok so basically I'm not talking about trying to get a job or free training,that. It really it at all. More less it's me just trying to learn about something I'm curious about.
Basically if I see something that I'm curious about and I'd like to learn something about it, I ha e no rela problems paying or exchanging labor just to learn or have that experience. So prime example is a good friend of mine. Guy is a taxidermist. Very skilled. I got curious about it and asked if I could just sit in on him doing a mount , in exchange for helping him with some stuff around his place. Don't really have much of an intention to be a taxidermist just when I get curious about something well I hyper fixated and I want to just absorb as much as I can . I might drop it after I might keep fiddling with it I might start doing it myself, just depends. I've actually paid just to watch a good welder run a few beads. Loaded bricks for a brick layer just so I could see how they made their stuff so nice.
The idea of just expecting to get that from somone for free doesn't sit right with me. I find that kind of stuff extremely valuable so I'd at the very least like to exchange it for some of my time. If that makes sense .