A successful career doesn’t need to look one way, explains electrician-turned-founder David Cox. Transformational experienceCox started off as an electrician’s apprentice in the 90s as a teenager just out of secondary school. After spending his rookie years as an apprentice, Cox worked as a qualified electrician for the same company for a few more years before moving on to Meteor Mobile, where he built critical power systems on telecommunication sites. And I had a successful exit on that business.”Anchoring this success was his training as an apprentice, he tells me. There’s on-the-job training, there’s apprenticeships…There’s all sorts.”Ireland offers wide-ranging apprenticeship courses, from insurance practice, manufacturing engineering to laboratory technicians, among others.