Before you go down the apprenticeship route, make sure you lock it down with the FSDO that will be verifying your stuff for the process that what you are planning is ok, and make sure of the requirements.

Last I’ve heard, they’ve tightened up the requirements significantly post COVID. Now this might just be talk from people whose paperwork and log entries were less than airtight, but you don’t want to get to the end of the road and find out you’re in a bad place.