I did my apprenticeship at a local dutch charter company that went bust right when I finished my one year apprenticeship.
There wasn't a lot of work for aircraft techies by now so I had to go outside of the aviation industry and I worked several jobs.
I kept applying to aircraft maintenance companies to get back into the maintenance field and after a year and a half I found a job with a british company operating in amsterdam.
This company was looking for technicians and they didn't mind hiring staff that was unexperienced and I didn't mind working for a company for little pay but a chance to learn about aircraft maintenance. In this company I became a ground engineer on the Fokker70 and 100.
I worked at this company for about 6 years doing line and hangar maintenance on the fokkers.
Some time later, this company also had to close down because the operator had moved their business to a different maintenance supplier and I was going to be out of a job again.
The B-1 (A&C) guys could all apply to the new maintenance supplier because they needed some technicians to fill the tall new order from the operator. Unfortunately the maintenance supplier didn't need any avionics technicians and only about half of our B-1 technicians at this time so I was looking at working outside of aviation again.
With only a few weeks to go until the closing date a surprising offer came from a local dutch aircraft maintenance company offering everybody that had not found a job yet to take us in and give us a permanent contract right away.
We were placed throughout the company and I was assigned to a hangar that maintains Boeing 737 pg and ng aircraft.
Now I am still working for this company on the 737.
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