Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho meets with apprentices at EDF Renwables' Blyth Wind Farm facility during national apprentice week.
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00:00 In terms of what you want to do next, what do you have in your sights about the future that you want to get to?
00:08 Maybe lots of money.
00:10 Maybe lots of money.
00:12 Maybe lots of money.
00:14 I think it's very effective to do that.
00:20 How many of you are motivated by death?
00:24 Anyone who's got a career. You can learn a lot of stuff at uni, but I don't see why not.
00:33 I think you can be smarter than you are.
00:36 You can be transparent in the real world, but when you have a branch you get to clear the way.
00:40 You've got to learn how to manage your money a bit better.
00:43 From there, with the career that you get with your branch, being an engineer, in our case,
00:51 to me as an engineer, that can be progress that's a lot higher than someone in my position that could get a new job.
01:01 Do you find it gives you a bit of freedom? You can just get on and get paid?
01:06 Yeah.
01:08 I think with regions, what you've got which is quite interesting is places around the country which have always had a lot of energy infrastructure.
01:16 So take North East Scotland for example. You've got people who are always used to those routes but now might be moving into different sectors.
01:25 What I think is really exciting, but it's going to be a bit more difficult, is the jobs that are being created by this overall new low carbon industry
01:35 are popping up in places that just didn't have a lot of jobs like that before.
01:38 Now that is brilliant. That is the most amazing thing.
01:42 The thing that everyone in government always wants is how do you create jobs in areas where you don't have so many.
01:47 And that is happening. But then the skills, it takes a bit more time.
01:50 Because people are quite, you were saying your dad worked in the engineering sector in Scotland.
01:54 Does anyone else's parents work in the engineering sector?
01:58 Yeah.
02:00 So you've got a couple of people here who are like, "It's okay, my mum's grown up. I need help with the fees."
02:04 So maybe that's just not for you. If you're doing it in a place where it hasn't had a lot of that before, it just takes a bit more pushing.
02:11 The flip side of that is these jobs are really well paid, there are jobs for the future, you do get a lot of services, and they're very attractive.
02:18 And that's what I think is really great.
02:20 So lots of people who maybe would never have thought of anything to do with energy and energy, are now looking at this going, "I want to do that."
02:28 And honestly, if I was your age, I would certainly be looking at this. It's a no-brainer.