Some will, but it took me 4 years to find one!
Up until this year I was the first "standard" age apprentice my company had hired. I started here in my third yeah, with two mature age third years and a mature first in the mechanical side, and electrical we had one 4th year mature age.
There are companies that prefer the more mature gent. You tend to know the bloke is serious, as opposed to some fresh faced, minty chap who picked sparky cause he didn't get into uni.
The younger apprentices will get the shits though about the wage difference. I hated it.
On topic, I'm a fitter and machinist specialising working in HVAC breakdowns. Things break, and my company gets called in to fix it. I mainly deal with rebuilding motors, compressors, fans, pumps etc. A lot of internal rigging, welding, alignments (thank fuck we have lasers, not bloody feeler gauges and dials), fan balances and vibration analysis (fancy way of saying we stick springs and waffle pads under shit. bahaha). The only machining I tend to do is reclamation work, i.e. sleeving shafts and whatnot when bearings spin, or one off jobbies of my own design to make things work.
The work is varied which is nice. I spent two years as a toolmaker, and couldn't handle high volume manufactoring. Having to work under supervisors sucks, so its nice atm. Have my own decked out ute, and get to think for myself.