Mack welcomes David :

>Hello David!  Plenty of room for us apprentice refugees.  (Did you ever 
>notice
>that these particular apprentices [apprenti?] never seem to get their
>journeyman's papers?)

I think we have a bit more apprenticing to do.  10 working hours per
day, 6 days a week, with 2 days off a year, for 5 years comes out
to around 15,000 hours for your typical apprenticeship.

I've been spending more time with my family lately but at one point
I was getting in maybe 20-25 hours of shop time a week.  Even at 
that rate I was looking at 10-15 years before I got my 'papers'.
(it'll take Patrick W several hundred years...).

And I wouldn't be an experienced cabinetmaker, I'd just be ready to
start out on my own.  With a lot less energy than the guy a hundred
years ago who was what, 20 ?

By the time I get really good with handtools I'll have to use 
machines because I'll be too frail to do things by hand.

Paul P   (welcome to the porch, David)

Montreal (Quebec)