danvisteon

I have been a vehicle technician for nearly 10 years now and I need a change, I have just seperated from my wife of 1 1/2 years, but been with her for 10 years previous to getting married, and I want / need a change but I really don't know what to do, I am willing to learn new things as I am intelligent and I am only 27, I need to get out of the motor trade and earn some proper money and better myself, any ideas???

SafeChav

The bloke that owns power station (out local rolling road/tuning centre) said if he could go back he would of moved into the porn industry rather than start the business hes in now

Sparky? Plumber? BIG money in both

PT

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Harris.

Courier /van driver. Most companys pay good money now ,i dont do too bad plus your out and about all day with nobody on your back

Rs1

iTrader: (1)

Companies such as Kone and Otis are looking always looking out for lift engineers and escalator engineers.
Paywise.....22-26k for a basic fiiter
I went from the motor trade into that then packed it in as i found it unbeliveably boring and i'm now considering going back into the motor trade
Seems to be a fair bit of lorry driving jobs going aswell

gingeRS

quality job, i used to do that for years, loved it

had to jack it in cos the money is shit, i was wasting my degree

dan, have you got any qualifications???

danvisteon

i did an apprenticeship my qualifications are
9 GCSE's at c and above
nvq level 2 mech engineering
nvq level 2 motor vehicle
nvq level 3 motor vehicle
btec onc
modern apprenticeship
abrasive wheels cert
mig, tig and gas welding cert
fork lift driver cert
bmw tech status
volvo level 2 tech but did level 4 work
loads of experiance

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

Train Driver

Not bad money either after training

Steve.

danvisteon

wot is the money like when training though as i have loads of bills to pay

danneth

sparky

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

You are better off asking Graceland as he has just done his Driver Training.

Steve.

Stavros

Wessex Trains (who dont exist anymore, but hey) was about 30k+ after training IIRC, but only about 11k for the 1st year as it training only.

EWS and big express trains and shit pays more IIRC.

And its officially the easiest job on the world Well, once you trained.

Honest to god, they asked me if i was ok with spending 4 out of the 8 hour shift waiting around for the next train to drive, just sitting around watching the TV and reading mags and shit

Yeah, id really hate 30k+ a year doing that

cossie4i+

iTrader: (15)

I think that our training rate starts at 15k, going upto about 18k part way through your training (after passing a few exams)

Im on more than 30k

Steve.

James

I'm in the same boat aswell, expect i'm just level 2 nvq/modern apprenticeship, been doing it 4 years and i've had enough and want out asap. some days it's the best job ever, but most it irrates the fuck out of me.

have you thought about the police force? thats what i've got my sights set upon atm..

Turbocabbie

What about IT... I work for a international hosting company and earn good money... when there are no problems with the servers being online im just getting paid to surf the net

danvisteon

i really want to get into IT but don't know how as I have only done a build your own pc course and anything i have learnt on my own computer

Lee Reynolds

Plod?
Plumber?
Electrician?
Nurse?

Charlie Chalk

iTrader: (1)

I need a job change!! Fed up of being in the forces now Long story...


whats the plumber training like!?

bigchez

Sales mate. I've just got into sales and love it. Plus its a job for life - companies always need sales staff. Can also eaasily move to estate agency or recruitment -big cash in both. (that's my plan anyway.)

Lee Reynolds

usually costs about 3500 quid for full training up here Rad....

mattbibs

go the plod route - my bro in law left management at mcdonalds at 25, joined the plod and did the beat training, by 28 was an interigator (sp) and in the top tax bracket! i ask myself why the fook im still doing the job i do!

danvisteon

cheers for the ideas