Feb 08 2009
Lifelong Learners…when, where, and how? Part 3
OJT – On-the-Job Training. It is training in the place where one works, with the tools, equipment, fellow workers, the documents. It can be simply this, but it can be so much more. When OJT is performed for the sake of more than production for the employer and a paycheck for the employee, it becomes education. It becomes learning.
I have had much OJT during the course of jobs I worked putting myself through school and in the careers that followed. Running injection and blow molding plastics machines, truck maintenance and repair, Asbestos abatement, computer hardware and software tasks, and on and on.
Most of the OJT was for a check. That was because of my outlook and lack of experience and maturity. Even if my employer was simply training me to produce, it’s my attitude and awareness that would make it so much more.
Doesn’t that sound like school?
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