EssexMikeSi

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just wondered if anybody on here has got fed up with their job and turned to something completely new and found a work based training job. Im 24 at the end of the month and am desperate to get a better job in life. I have loads of gcses, an A level, and a national diploma, but the A level and ND are in art based subjects and i dont want to go into this field.

I look round the internet all day today but to no avail. I really want someone to give me a chance in life to prove that im good at learning new skills and everyday i dream of having that well paid job in the city. The only work based learning jobs ive come across want school leavers and trainee jobs want graduates.

At this moment in time i really feel i would do any sort of job if it was teaching me the skills needed, whether it be engineering or financial advisor, airport or railway.

Anybody on here got a good knowledge in how to find jobs where previous experience isnt necessary as they teach u or send u to college one day a week. Or, do you know where is the best places to go to acquire such information. Maybe i need to go to a careers advice center?

zippyobrien

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im not sure where your based,
but what about trying to get an apprecticship at some where like AWE
its a government run compnay and there huge, 2 1000 acre sites local to me,

im hopefully getting a job there soon.

also try connextion (type that into google spelt like that )
although where your 24 i dont no if they offer you help or not ???

good luck mat e

Shings

I posted this the other day on a similar thread- I do live at home though and the local uni has the courses.... at 24 you're classed as mature but you need to be 25 to be classed as independant to not be means tested for grants...

Anyway....

I have tried to getting into Quantity surveying/Project management for years.

Quite happy to start at the bottom and re train totally... but NO ONE even gave me the time of day.. last May for example (when most companies recruit trainees) I sent off 17 cv/covering letters and emailed a further 14 companies.

Result- NO INTERVIEWS and very few replies.

12mths on- I quit my job in August and enrolled at uni in Birmingham doing Construction Quantity Surveying (BSc HONs and RICS/CIOB accredited degree course). As a mature student (I was 25) I needed no qualifications and was not means tested for grants/loans, as I live with my parents it made things easier.

I have worked my ass off all year and I am pretty certain to finish with above 60% across the board on all 10 modules... its not been easy as I have NO construction experience and I have done no education since I was 17........ I also have had to fit in my old job part time as I was kept on.

Other than being enrolled on a degree course nothing has changed- oh I also sold my cossie....

RESULT- I have sent 1 CV/Covering letter off- I had an interview last week and was told on Monday I have got the job.. I start work as a trainee QS on a Ł350m contract in 4 weeks, the company have offered an excellent package and are paying for my continued studies and day release.


My point is that if you can work a way to do it... go back to uni or do some other sort of training- as Neil said- re train as a plumber, sparky or a chippy-...... the wage will be SHIT for a few years or if you go to UNI could be nothing... but the end result will be a future.. which is what I have.

The most I could have earned before was about Ł20k plus the odd fiddle... now..... an average newly qualified QS earns Ł25k.. and the sky is the limit as you get older/experienced.


Most comical thing is that the guy I was interviewed by did my degree and was taught by the same teachers and said nothing I will learn on my degree will have any relevance to the work I will be doing..

All the first year of my degree did was open the door to an interview!

Hope this helps.

Jake

EssexMikeSi

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chers for the replies. It does seem to be coming more and more clearer that i need to forget earning money and the luxuries of having full time wage and descent car and get some proper education, then play later on when m enjoying a better lifestyle. I would find it so hard goin back to a part time job now but i suppose its whats got to be done

matt p

Im 25 now mate and nearly finsihed my first year doing airconditioning
and refridgeration nvq2.

Looking at doing levgel 3 and a HNC to as my firm said that they will put
forward the money to do it!.

There are firms out there that still do this its just trying to find one

Red_GTi

congratulations jake

mike

As you've already considered, one place to go would be careers advice, they should be able to offer you some ideas

Shings

Cheers mate.. I am absolutly over the fuck'n moon, quite frankly.