Legacy Apprenticeship

You have to understand, Herron, things aren't like they used to be, the youths these days want to decide for themselves what they want to do with their lives when they're fully grown. - Friend sympathizing with an Electrician

History

Passing on the Family Trade

Throughout the Gear Nation an age-old tradition in every family when a child must take up the occupation of their parents when they become old enough. Leading to them take up an apprenticeship under them when they reach the age of ten when they are strong enough to deal with manual labor. From that point on the apprenticeship will last until they reach the age of seventeen and are considered an adult. During this seven-year apprenticeship, the child for most of the week taught everything that their parent knows in order to prepare them for their future trade. Most children usually have only one choice as to what job apprenticeship they will be taking as most parents have the same job and often meet that way before marrying. There are those however that have different job occupations that allow them to choose either one and if a child has trouble completing one of their apprenticeship, they can fall on the other if they understand it better. This form of apprenticeship has been passed down from generation to generation as a means to maintain the status queue of jobs to ensure that a balanced amount exists to avoid unemployment and the difficulties of creating new ones to meet them. Apprenticeships are considered mandatory for children as they cannot find any other training outside of their families, leaving them no choice but to follow in their family's footsteps.

Leaving the Family Business

In today's society, many youths of the nation known simply as Wrenchers see the idea of family apprenticeships to be too restrictive and oppressive. Children who have different interests from their parents can not act on them as they have no means to achieve them as no one will take them into teaching them. Leaving many children either running off from home to enjoy the freedom or secretly learning from underground schools set up by wrenchers to give children a chance at their own careers. Leading to an uproar amongst many parents trying to fight this sudden change in their way of life and get their children back in line. This has only led many children to rebel, by refusing to follow their parent's teachings and eventually caving into their children's demands in fear of their future should they not find a job if they are not skilled enough. Yet there are still some that seek to fight this change to protect their family tradition by any means that they can.

Execution

When a child grows old enough to hold a pair of tools they are taken under the wing of their parents to take up their jobs when they become old enough by learning the tools of the trade when they set out to get a job for themselves. Mainly having the come to their job and watch them work and take notes on what and not to do. When they are not at work they will be practicing methods and testing on the uses of tools and procedures to allow the child to better explain them. This will happen in the early days of the apprenticeship lasting for at least two years. This allows them to have enough time to learn the ins and out of how things work for their future. As well as feeling more at ease with their new surroundings as most new apprentices have difficulty learning the more complex aspects of their parent's job if not properly taught.
For the rest of the apprenticeship, it will mainly be having parents put their children working on projects and tests to master them at home and at their parent's employment. During this time they will be supervised to ensure that they are following the proper procedures and maintaining their training so they do not slip. As the years go by and they get better they can leave to their own devices as they reach proper experience. If they want to they can join an apprentice fellowship amongst other apprentices at their parent's workplace to help and teach those struggling and share ideas with one another. Once they finally reach seventeen they will be given one final test known as the Passing of the Tools, and should they pass the test given to them by their parents through their skill and knowledge then they will be given their present tools to prove that they have earned the right of being an adult.

Components and tools

Manuals: Children will often be given manuals that relate to their future to get a different viewpoint from their parents to have a deeper understanding of their parent's job.
Tools: Children will be taught how to use the tools that their parents use for their job and to use them properly to avoid breaking or injuring themselves.

Participants

The parent and the child are at the center of the apprenticeship as they must teach their child as best they can. Everything they know about their job into them so they can become skilled in their craft. If there is more than one child in a family that reaches the proper age they will be given to another parent to teach them and if they cannot, then they will take up another apprentice to teach them.

Observance

The apprenticeships begin at the age of ten years old when a child is capable of learning more easily and being able to use the tools of the trade properly. Lasting for seven years should their training progress and find for themselves when they are done.

Related Organizations

• Gear Nation

Related Ethnicities

• Gears

Family Legacy

by Jester%

This family comes from a long line of vehicle mechanics, it's in our blood and to give it up would be losing all that we are. - Parent to Child

Apprenticeships have a deep meaning within the families that go through with them as it essentially honors those that came before them. To take pride in their craft so much that it needs to be passed down to their children and their children's children so it may live on. To try and go against all the time and effort that was put into perfecting that craft would just be a waste should children try to learn for another practice. Making it all the more important to pass on such a legacy so that it may never fade away from personal desires being seen as selfish.