About Prentice

Make a trade switch possible for anyone.

Prentice is an adult trade-switch guide built around one idea: people deserve a clear, practical way to compare apprenticeship paths, wages, licensing rules, and local entry points before they reorganize their lives.

Updated May 25, 2026

What we publish

Prentice publishes apprenticeship explainers, switch briefs, paid decision guides, labor-market maps, and source-backed state and trade pages. The work combines public labor data, official apprenticeship and licensing sources, and editorial judgment about what an adult career switcher actually needs to decide.

We are especially focused on people who did not start with an obvious route into the trades: adults with families, workers coming from college or office paths, immigrants, multilingual readers, and people who need the first-year money math before they can take a leap.

Founder and editor-in-chief

Prentice is founded and overseen by Ryan Borker. Ryan serves as founder and editor-in-chief for the site, with editorial standards applied by the Prentice Editorial Team and a freelance writing and review bench.

Ryan is an MIT and University of Pennsylvania Huntsman Program graduate, a Quora Top Writer, and has been published in Forbes. Those credentials do not replace source checking; they explain who is accountable for the editorial system, correction process, and standard of usefulness Prentice aims to meet.

Language access is part of the mission

The goal is not just to rank for apprenticeship searches. It is to make the switch into skilled work legible in the language a reader can act on. Prentice uses scaled data collection and AI-assisted editorial production, then applies human oversight, glossary discipline, and route-level quality gates before localized pages are promoted.

Editorial corrections, source disputes, and feedback go to editor@prentice.training. Purchases, access, refunds, privacy, and customer support go to support@prentice.training.

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