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Speaker 1: Searching for the best at trade in mid Canterbury or

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Speaker 1: thanks to our friends at EA Network's final day of

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Speaker 1: full voting on the Hawknowey Ashburton facebook page, we close

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Speaker 1: it off lunchtime tomorrow and crown our winner on Friday.

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Speaker 1: I was keen to know what it takes to be

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Speaker 1: a trade and a good place to start is somewhere

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Speaker 1: that pumps them out by the thousands each year at

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Speaker 1: an Institute of Canterbury. They've been a long contender in

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Speaker 1: the trades training space, starting as christ Church Technical School

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Speaker 1: in the early nineteen hundreds. There's been a few different

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Speaker 1: iterations since then. Somebody who is the head of Applied

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Speaker 1: Techs in other words, the head of Trades Peter Souer,

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Speaker 1: and I noted how there's sort of been a change

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Speaker 1: in attitude. Tradees now seem to be the new rock

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Speaker 1: stars of the economy. They're the ones that you see

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Speaker 1: rolling around town in the brand new Ford Rangers with

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Speaker 1: the Rim Williams, a.

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Speaker 2: Young leads and letters. There there are ripping around and

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Speaker 2: finite the cars that even I drive and a few

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Speaker 2: years in the trade has been a very solid and

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Speaker 2: smooth career pathway for a lot of people. I think

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Speaker 2: what we're also finding is that, as you'll be aware,

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Speaker 2: you know, the economy goes up and down, and we've

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Speaker 2: had some real curveballs and say with COVID and other

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Speaker 2: things where a lot of work has been severely disrupted.

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Speaker 2: But what we found is that trade has rebounded really strongly,

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Speaker 2: and that you know, in terms of if you want

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Speaker 2: a lifelong career, you know, trades can take.

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Speaker 3: You to all sorts of places. There's always need for

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Speaker 3: people who are practical, knowledgeable and able to apply your

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Speaker 3: skills in a way that really impacts our environments.

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Speaker 1: You're actually doing something with your day. It must be

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Speaker 1: so rewarding driving around town going I built that and

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Speaker 1: I fixed that.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's hard to steer out the window into an email,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. I mean there is one of the things

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Speaker 2: on our landscape here in Ostaki christ which is if

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Speaker 2: you look at the stadium, I mean that's a classic

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Speaker 2: example of great tradies work. I mean, it's impacting our skyline,

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Speaker 2: it's impacting our community, and yeah, it's you can actually

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Speaker 2: finish your day having something practical and real to show

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Speaker 2: for it.

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Speaker 3: They talk about the builders, the fixes.

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Speaker 2: The makers, So I mean if you. If you are

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Speaker 2: into any of those things, then you know.

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Speaker 3: A good practical trade is the way to go.

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Speaker 2: I think if you look at the school system, to

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Speaker 2: be honest, your school system has been designed very much

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Speaker 2: to create sort of university graduates. But as we know,

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Speaker 2: that's not for everybody. So if you're sort of not

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Speaker 2: the traditional academic and you want an alternative pathway which

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Speaker 2: leads to a really you know, a lucrative career, then

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Speaker 2: practical trades are a way to go. You know, I

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Speaker 2: think there is starting to become more recognition in our

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Speaker 2: education system that actually applied learning is a very powerful

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Speaker 2: thing and does lead to lifelong careers that are really positive. So,

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Speaker 2: you know,