Bob left school to become an electrical apprentice with Ellisons Electrical; and while serving his apprenticeship, he also attended night school, eventually becoming a qualified electrician.

As of 2007, there are more than 40,000 electrical apprentices enrolled in JATC programs throughout the United States and Canada.

The current class of 14 electrical apprentices has seven nonwhite men and one woman, who is white.

The first class of eight electrical apprentices was another.

He studied at Homebush Boys High School in Sydney until his father persuaded him to become an electrical apprentice at age 15.

He left school in 1934, aged 14, and joined Lever Brothers as an electrical apprentice.

He started working in Rosyth Dockyard in 1989 as an electrical apprentice.

AB worked under his father as an electrical apprentice.

By September 1939 he was working at Carlton & United Breweries as a first-year electrical apprentice.

The fourth-year electrical apprentice subsequently moved to Tasmanian Football League side Hobart for the 2010 season.