Currently working as a hire controller for Hewdens who have just been sold to speedy hire. Not sure how many jobs are safe at the moment. I’m bored of sitting behind a desk nearly all day taking calls/selling items/ serving customers/ ringing round for parts/machines/ delegating drivers there deliveries / typing contracts.
So I have decided to do a Trade I have gone for plumbing was thinking about becoming an Electrician but opted for plumbing.
Not long just split up with my ex about 2 months now, So I’m back at home and my outgoings are much less.
Option one
So with the plumbing idea in my Head I wrote to about 15 different companies basically saying If they had any job vacancy’s for a plumbers
mate/ apprenticeships and that I was going to enroll on a one day a week Course at college for two years for a basic plumbing (city&guilds) cost £700.
I had about four replies saying nothing at the moment.
Just find a job where I can work with one day off in the week and go to college?
Apprenticeships are hard to come by and it makes it even worse that I’m 25.
Option two
So I checked out http://www.plumbingacademy.co.uk which is the same course but you Pay Total Cost £5698 and gets you qualified in 20 weeks
four days a week at college Only problem is what to do for money traveling/bills etc if i can only work fri/sat/sun. It would be about 46 miles there so 368miles for the week. haven't got a spare five grand so would need to look at personnel development loans?
Option three
I found Another course for Evenings which is two nights a week 6pm till 9pm for 2 years which is £1200, Only thing is If I stay in my current job while doing this I work till half 5 and would need to travel 16ish miles to the college and would be a Miracle to get there on time. So find another job so the hours would suit.
There are courses after this that I want to go on but this is the first step on the ladder. I feel as though if I don’t start it now I never will and I don’t want to be stuck in a job sat behind a desk for the rest of my life. So if you have any options opinions I would appreciate them
So I have decided to do a Trade I have gone for plumbing was thinking about becoming an Electrician but opted for plumbing.
Not long just split up with my ex about 2 months now, So I’m back at home and my outgoings are much less.
Option one
So with the plumbing idea in my Head I wrote to about 15 different companies basically saying If they had any job vacancy’s for a plumbers
mate/ apprenticeships and that I was going to enroll on a one day a week Course at college for two years for a basic plumbing (city&guilds) cost £700.
I had about four replies saying nothing at the moment.
Just find a job where I can work with one day off in the week and go to college?
Apprenticeships are hard to come by and it makes it even worse that I’m 25.
Option two
So I checked out http://www.plumbingacademy.co.uk which is the same course but you Pay Total Cost £5698 and gets you qualified in 20 weeks
four days a week at college Only problem is what to do for money traveling/bills etc if i can only work fri/sat/sun. It would be about 46 miles there so 368miles for the week. haven't got a spare five grand so would need to look at personnel development loans?
Option three
I found Another course for Evenings which is two nights a week 6pm till 9pm for 2 years which is £1200, Only thing is If I stay in my current job while doing this I work till half 5 and would need to travel 16ish miles to the college and would be a Miracle to get there on time. So find another job so the hours would suit.
There are courses after this that I want to go on but this is the first step on the ladder. I feel as though if I don’t start it now I never will and I don’t want to be stuck in a job sat behind a desk for the rest of my life. So if you have any options opinions I would appreciate them
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well worth it IMO ,i'm debating it myself.