Career - change of direction

[sjhall]

If you had your time again , would you still go down the same career path ? at the age of 34 I'm very disillusioned with the whole sparking game , I have no personal gripe with anyone who has done a short course and become a domestic installer, but I do think the influx of domestic installers is killing the trade and I don't think it will get any better in the future...

If you had the chance to retrain , would you ?

Ste

 

[Phil]

i am. never too old for a change. think carefully before leaping and you could always look at going into a more specialist area where you will be in demand for your skills

 

[sjhall]

Phil your Right , one of the options I was thinking about , is doing my Gas , there is a shortage of good engineers , loads of installers , but lads that can really fault find are a rear breed , as i've found out when trying to get a Ravenheat boiler fixed ....
Or on a total different path , there is a nice big shiny prison being build not far from me , will take a few years in which time I could do the necessary quals part time to go for a job there , nice pension etc

 

[Phil]

whichever you choose good luck with it

 

[RWJ]

doing my Gas , there is a shortage of good engineers , loads of installers , but lads that can really fault find are a rear breed

You could say the same about the electrical business. From what the Gas Safe guys I know are saying their industry is also over run, and the amount of new "Gas & Heating" vans you see around....... Twice as many as new sparks?!? (Just a guess)


I've also thought about jacking it in......AGAIN!!! and I'm not even sure it wasn't better when I was stacking shelves at Morrisons between jobs... Or is that just rose tinted glasses???

 

[morph]

yep its pony ,
another day for me where i only have a few hours work

 

[telectrix]

real pony, i ain't even got anything booked for this week or next. 1 job waiting for client to dig trench. another waiting for SPEnergy to give a date for supply install.

 

[BlueToBits]

It's the 'grass is always greener' effect. Why do people think that other industries are easier to make a living in than their own? We hear of loads of experienced IT consultants, telecom engineers, terachers and the likes disillusioned with their own industry wanting to retrain as electricians and loads of electricians wanting to re-train as IT consultants, telecom engineers, terachers and the likes. Everyone is chasing the worm dangling from the hook.

 

[RWJ]

Why do people think that other industries are easier to make a living in than their own? We hear of loads of experienced IT consultants, telecom engineers, terachers and the likes disillusioned with their own industry wanting to retrain as electricians .

Because you can earn £55k+ and it only takes 5 days / weeks(What ever the training centres are claiming now)

 

[telectrix]

the trouble is, all the worms have been gobbled up by the locusts from eastern europe. all we have left is the hook to hang ourselves from

 

[BlueToBits]

Maybe there's a shortage of electricians in eastern Europe?

 

[BlueToBits]

£55K ! I wouldnt get out of bed for less than 100

 

[RWJ]

£55K ! I wouldnt get out of bed for less than 100

You best leave the trade then!! lolol

 

[zedess]

Well not all eastern european locusts, i priced a rewire up yesterday at a 3 bed terrace,just after a nice shiny new van pulled away (he had just finished his quote and already given it!).Basically: kitchen ring 6 sockets,radial down 5 sockets,radial up 6sockets.shower circuit c/w pull, 5 lights up,4lights down..all earthing to do,new c/u..test cert and all plaster ...left his buisness card on the window ledge..price on the back £1395..the lady mentioned she thought it was really cheap...he said yes he needed the experience...and the property would be occupied by mum dad and the 3 kids for the time of work!........... That my friend is what u are up against!! never mind the price of copper!!

 

[telectrix]

that price is a joke. he must have worked it out as dole supplement.