Lee Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Whoops forgot to set this months poll! Simple question! with many associations changing names etc and our job evolving what are you? this is mainly geared to shoe repairers/engravers/key cutters, rather than specialists in one field, if your answer is something else post what you are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 Well, indeed I am a shoe repairer, but I've opted to describe myself as 'something else' because shoe repairs only equates to 25% of my business. Like many others, there's just so much more to it than that. Am I a key cutter then, trophy retailer? Or an engraver? Or one of a multitude of other possible titles? Well, yes I guess I'm all of the above and a bit more. My business cards used to say 'proprietor' and now have me as 'director', but that's a bit dull. When applying for credit cards, bank accounts etc I've been known tocall myself a retail entrepreneur! Anybody got any more ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x minit uk Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 shoeoligist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted March 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 I like that one, x minit and proud of it Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Multi-Service Centre - Technician - Proprietor - Director Or a more up to date spin word-SOLUTIONIST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Hugh, does this mean you only use glue? (When I first started, I was told 'It's not glue, it's adhesive solution') Call it what you want, it still does the same job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 Hugh, does this mean you only use glue? (When I first started, I was told 'It's not glue, it's adhesive solution') Call it what you want, it still does the same job! Steven, I have a Bee in my Bonnet about the word Solutions. Sort of, Solutions for Compacted Waste (Bog Roll) Solutions for Clean Air (Chimmney Sweep) etc etc etc. It gets right up my nose does that word. A Solution in our terminology is 2 or more liquids or solids in a suspension that we used to refer to to as Adhesive and before that Glue. I just say Glue it up! It is then up to the operative, or "solutionist" to choose the correct adhesive for the task in hand, unless it is a trainee and i would then ask them which one to use and why. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theone Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 jack of all trades, master of ALL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 15, 2006 Report Share Posted March 15, 2006 So Theone, from where did you obtain your Masters certificates? Nice to see another Musician besides myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Theone Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 print them myself piece of paper does'nt mean you can do the job, just makes you THINK you can do the job Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 City & Guilds tells me someone can do the jobs they have been tested on. That dont mean that they can solve problems though. NVQs and company certificates are not the same as C&Gs, anyone having all levels in C&Gs is entitled to be called a Shoe Repairer as opposed to Cobbler. Self Certification is better than none, customers would not know would they? not until they got their shoes back that is. Me, I'm known as the King Cobbler. Many of my customers can be heard commenting as they leave the shop. King Cobbler that one (sounds like that anyhow). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x minit uk Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 Hugh, excuse me if I am wrong, but did you use to help run YTS courses,or city&guild exams for the shoe repair trade. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 17, 2006 Report Share Posted March 17, 2006 I think most Managers/Proprietors ran YTS courses when they were around, cant remember too much about them at the moment but were they not critisised as being a cheap way of getting labour? City & Guilds! yes, I do have examiner status but not used it for many years. Still have all the test papers and sylabus though they are yellowing with age now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted March 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 I started out on a YTS! and yes the old boss DID use it as a way of getting cheap labour! Stuck one place for 6 months then got the job in a local shoe repairers (now gone) and the rest is history! Lee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kobblers Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 ex YTS here too, i remember that we used to call the acronym 'youth's training to be slaves' rick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh-Candoit (ENG) Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 It brought quite a few into the trade that otherwise would have been unemployed so i think some good came from it. Many of my proteges started life as YTSs come to think of it, also a sceme for taking the long term unemployed provided me with one of my star trainees. At least with YTS and the like you went through a set program, not inking shoes fro 3 months like I had too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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