30, want more money, suggestions?

bullit in head said:
oi! thats how I started, contracting S&T, money is good but it's no way to live. working away from home you spend it all.


sort of loses the no education and effort bit there, every one I know who do these jobs are quite clever chaps (in there own way) and have had to put the effort in.
you dont just get these jobs over night with doing a course or two.



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Of course you don't, it's all about contacts as it is in any game. I have my favourite Cranies and ES's I always, specifically ask for. Unless they screw up, they'll be requested by me for as long as I work here.

S&T I don't know much about as we don't get too envolved with the technical side of railworks, we just use the protection staff mostly for our works.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Are you class 1 or 2 ?

I ask as I take home close on £30k p/a never mind struggle to make it... (I assume you mean £30k Gross?)

Yes, I do long hours, and yes I'm away upto 5 nights a week, but I love it! - I'm in a job where the kit is decent, the job simple & your left to get on with it.

The problem you may find is finding a job that'll pay the wage you want for the hours you seek, I've been there & done it, exchanging long paid hours for a salary and lots of effectively unpaid overtime.

Not to mention, trucking is a job that you clock off & forget about!

I went back on the road! :o

Come "Tramping" with me on Eddies, you'll love it. ;) :D
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Always fancied trucking as a young lad, but fell in with IT stuff. A couple of chaps I'm friendly with in my local are truckers from Yorkshire and deliver stuff to NI all the time. They love it, even if timing of loads means there stuck here for the weekend
 
Be a Specialist Anaesthetist. Apparently to earn bucket loads of money all you have to do is be an argumentative old git and leave early from my meeting without an explanation.

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AcidHell2 said:
Who do you work for and can I have a job for that money.

It's the nature of the job sometimes You'll be there all night, other times you turn up paperworks wrong and you go home.
Contractors round here don't get anything like that and usually have several hours of unpaid travel.
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I know contractors won't get that anywhere but London, or the massive projects. What we pay is a lot and not easy acquirable, but if you're not being paid £20+ an hour for those tickets, you're being mugged off. You're company is getting paid that, it's up to you to stamp your feet and ask why more of it aren't coming your way.

And the work is out there. You just need to hustle it up. With work not so easy about outside London, especially rail work, it's not uncommon for companies to take the wee-wee and pay £8 for Coss's and £12 for ES's. Hell, I had an ES who told me he did PICOP works for £14 an hour.

I'll grant you one thing, it's not as good as it used to be, but it still is excellent for what it entails.

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Don't you just love when they screw up Rimini's. Home time!! :D Although, we gotta pay while the contractors are burning their tires red getting the hell out of there.
 
Spook187 said:
Cough,your right and wrong lol,thats what i do,yes we can make silly money sometimes,but this line of work is up and down,one minute i am flatout the next i am sitting at home for a month with no money so it can balance itself out money wise,as for effort yes there are days we do very little,this can happen to incorrect paperwork or engineering problems,but there a times we have to work a full 12 hours with no break just to get the job done,education depends on what type of jobs there are in this industry,but we go through some very intensive training programmes to keep our skills and tickets up to date.
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I'm sorry but in London, if you're any good, you're flat out. You beg for days off. 12 hours without a break? You work for cowboys? Get onto Cirus and watch them grab their asses and run for cover. Intensive training programs? Please tell about these.
 
[TW]Fox;18466416 said:
Its time for me to be controversial again!

You either have it or you don't. You are asking OcUK how to earn more money, so you don't.
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ooooh, the drama :p

R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
Are you class 1 or 2 ?

I ask as I take home close on £30k p/a never mind struggle to make it... (I assume you mean £30k Gross?)

Yes, I do long hours, and yes I'm away upto 5 nights a week, but I love it! - I'm in a job where the kit is decent, the job simple & your left to get on with it.

The problem you may find is finding a job that'll pay the wage you want for the hours you seek, I've been there & done it, exchanging long paid hours for a salary and lots of effectively unpaid overtime.

Not to mention, trucking is a job that you clock off & forget about!

I went back on the road! :o

Come "Tramping" with me on Eddies, you'll love it. ;) :D
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It's class1, dayshift in the central belt

I wanna try do less hours eventually, staying out 5 nights isn't for me I'm afraid :(
 
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regulus said:
I'm sorry but in London, if you're any good, you're flat out. You beg for days off. 12 hours without a break? You work for cowboys? Get onto Cirus and watch them grab their asses and run for cover. Intensive training programs? Please tell about these.
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Yes your correct the firm i work for at the moment is borderline cowboys lol.
We do have a good training rooms though which goes out of the window when out on the track,they would never admit to that but i know what goes on within the industry,would you class bending the rules as the same as breaking them,imm currently looking to move to a different company to work over on the upgrading of the metro lines in newcastle if i can get on,london underground is possible also but the time isnt right for me as mrs is very ill.:(
 
Train driver - can make a fair bit of money if you can pass their entrance exams etc which is easier said than done.

I'd do it if I thought I stood any chance of passing :)
 
Halfmad said:
Train driver - can make a fair bit of money if you can pass their entrance exams etc which is easier said than done.

I'd do it if I thought I stood any chance of passing :)
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I can't see taxi work paying >£30k with less hours than he's currently doing driving trucks tbh.

Depends on the area you taxi in I guess, not many of my taxi driving mates around Stoke make £30k! Far from it.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I can't see taxi work paying >£30k with less hours than he's currently doing driving trucks tbh.

Depends on the area you taxi in I guess, not many of my taxi driving mates around Stoke make £30k! Far from it.
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id be suprised ... they rob £15 from me evrey friday night from hanley the robing gits :D
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
isolated? ferrying passengers around all the time? Do me a favour!

Try being away in a truck all week! ;) :(
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Come on think about it.

The role of a train driver is only slightly less isolated than a truck driver.

95% of the time the only contact you have is when you pick up the handset to make on-board announcements about a signal failure/a problem or informing the passengers of the following stops.

It is as isolated as a truck driver in my eyes.
 
R420LA6X2/4MNA said:
I can't see taxi work paying >£30k with less hours than he's currently doing driving trucks tbh.

Depends on the area you taxi in I guess, not many of my taxi driving mates around Stoke make £30k! Far from it.
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You are a trucker and earn £30K? That's pretty decent. My Dad is also a trucker for a company in Stoke you might have heard of. I don't think he's anywhere near 30K though! And he's out most nights.
 
same here, thinking of re-training, currently an IT admin in cornwall but really there are bugger all jobs down here for anything!
 
builder22 said:
I'm currently driving an HGV, the money is not bad just now, but I need to work loads of hours/days to get anywhere near 30k, and that's probably the upper limit tbh, it's in the future I'm more concerned about. If I made 30k (pre-tax) for the rest of my life on a 5 day week without silly hours I'd probably be quite happy with that! Having the chance of promotion would help a lot too, as I say my current job is pretty dead end
I've considered going back to college/uni and getting a degree but I'd be as good as 40 by the time I was finished, prob not the best age to be applying for jobs with no experience in the relevant field! am i right in thinking this way? I know lots of people start degrees at my age but from what I can gather it's mostly to prove something to themselves.

is there such a thing as an apprenticeship for older people?
as said I'm not looking to make silly money I just don't want to have to have no life in order to make the cash, especially as I get older...
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Never too old to start anything, go for it dude
 
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