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[D D Danneh]

Take up Plumbing....pays great and I could tell you a story or 10 with regards to housewives left at home with very little to do....defoe not a boring job

Indeed. All "educational" videos I have watched seem to indicate that plumbers do indeed have an interesting job.

 

[JonJ678]

What are your qualifications? This makes an enormous difference to what job roles you can do.

Messing around with a computer at home is very different to doing it as a job. I spent six months or so fixing laptops with a local firm, all it did was kill any interest I had in playing with my own computer.

You like manual work, but hate the idea of plumbing? Strikes me as a contradiction.

 

[FatBoyObese]

The mind boggles!

Do you ever get called out at 2am or anything like that, or is that purely optional, being on call that is...

Purely optional really although I do have a contract to answer call outs to 5 local residential care homes....got called out at 23:45hrs on xmas eve last year....didn't get finished until 4am xmas morning....ooooo you just know they paid for that

/takes a seat with some popcorn

Go ahead, im curious

I've had a few scantily clad ladies milling around the kitchen when I've been working....

Indeed. All "educational" videos I have watched seem to indicate that plumbers do indeed have an interesting job.

Oh yeh

 

[kellaway225]

What are your qualifications? This makes an enormous difference to what job roles you can do.

Messing around with a computer at home is very different to doing it as a job. I spent six months or so fixing laptops with a local firm, all it did was kill any interest I had in playing with my own computer.

You like manual work, but hate the idea of plumbing? Strikes me as a contradiction.

GCSE C in Maths and English as well as DMM in Btec National IT
as well as some crappy things

 

[I get around]

Engineering isn't manual work

Depends where you get into it.
My dads an engineer for stannah and does a lot of hands on work as well as a lot of desk rubbish.

 

[Janesy B]

It's called unskilled labour, normally done in factories by Polish women.

 

[bigredshark]

It seems to me a lot of people who like building PCs actually quite like networking too (god only knows why) more than programming / development, so perhaps you should think about that route?

That is true, a lot of people seem to come into networking from that angle.

But on the other hand, most senior network people don't really have much interest in computers at all, certainly I don't know many people (and I know a big chunk of the UK internet industries senior networks guys) who go home to tinker with their machines...

 

[Delvis]

So not a lot of money in it?
need to find something that is practical work so that i dont get bored
but will give me a decent wage

well, I was building desktops and servers for 14k a year...So theres some money

It depends on the company...But there aren't that many companys around nowadays that actually sit there and build Pc's anymore...

Unless you mean a desktop as in a sideboard

 

[MikeHunt79]

Purely optional really although I do have a contract to answer call outs to 5 local residential care homes....got called out at 23:45hrs on xmas eve last year....didn't get finished until 4am xmas morning....ooooo you just know they paid for that

I see, that would be the only thing that would put me off, getting called out at stupid o'clock, nice to know it's optional... I'm doing an office job right now, and while it's not bad, if I ever got fired I think being a plumber or spark would be better job than many others that spring to mind...