The Proud Skilled Worker

What is Better, Education or OJT - with Sam Overturf

Grow your career in the trades today with these helpful tips

 
Do you know how to grow your career in the trades? 
 
Every skilled worker is looking for the opportunity, training, and consistency that will help them be successful and financially stable as they pursue their trades career. 
 
At Skillwork, we want to help you find that opportunity and get you the training you need. 
 
The Proud Skilled Worker brings you another great episode with Sam Overturf, an Electro Mechanic who shares from his experience growing his trades career. 
 
If you want to learn the ins and outs of a trades career and how you can find success with or without a college degree, then THIS is the episode for you.
 
Main Takeaways:
  •  Work with the mentality to learn new skills and expand your expertise
  • Skilled workers will increase their worth when they ask questions to grow in their trade
  •  You don’t need formal education to be successful or financially stable in the trades
  • On-the-job training will help you grow faster as a skilled worker
 
Timecodes:
  •  00:00-04:10 | Learn how to grow a career in the trades
  •  04:10–11:49 | Companies are willing to train the people with the right attitude to learn
  • 11:49–19:31 | You will grow as a skilled worker when you ask the right questions
  • 19:31–31:28 | A college degree isn’t required to be successful in the trades
 
Quotes:
  • “When you teach a skill to someone, something you might do every day that they didn’t know how to do before, that’s one less thing you have to worry about.” – Sam Overturf, Electro Mechanic 
  • “I don’t feel like the trades eat their young because there’s not enough young to be eaten—the workforce is so depleted.” – Sam Overturf, Electro Mechanic 
  • “It’s better to have a maintenance team be reliant on each other instead of all of them servicing individual crisis situations.” – Michael Peatrowsky, Director of Operations
  • “I picked up a tool and said, “I may not know what I’m doing but I am going to give it a shot”. That mentality was something that they respected.” – Sam Overturf, Electro Mechanic
 
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