Thread: Looking for a new job?

As a young guy trying to break through into the engineering industry it is incredibly hard. I find myself applying for jobs even where it specifies that they are after a tradesman with 10+ years experience because I hope that they might call or email to say "Your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion", so I can explain I'm after an apprenticeship,
With no word of a lie, I would have applied for at least 40+ engineering jobs in the past two months alone, all of them not even getting past the first stage due to lack of experience, but how am I to get more without being offered an opportunity?
Luckily, I'm 19 and have age/time on my side. I also work in workshop (we produce exhausts for trucks, diggers etc) where I'm welding, operating lathes, mills, drills, presses, rollers, benders and other assortments of machines.
I back myself on my welding ability using MIG and Arc, working on my TIG. Also pretty happy with my machining capabilities, although our lathe is from the 50's I'm getting a really good grounding on my basic skills.

All this, and I still get turned down because they want Tradies and not keen young bucks who always show up early and are keen to learn and take everything on board.

Rant over