About to lose my job, looking to start a new career, any advice please...

[Citizen in Pakistan]

Probably best time to start your own thing with whatever skill you have that you think market will value and you can look for something part time on the sidelines

 

[Mid Wales blue]

rereading this I can just imagine the conversation.

You- "fuck off to Oz/NZ if you haven't got kids"

Her - " But Dad, I'm only 13"

It depends on which town in the uk they live, she might already have 2 kids!

 

[Dave Ewing's Back 'eader]

Train Driver?
Firefighter?

MP. Yer get someone else to pay yer mortgage! And no training required.

 

[Kippaxpete]

Apologies for the negativity but I'm currently working a dead-end office job on below average pay and about to be made redundant unfortunately but I have a mortgage to pay off and all the usual financial liabilities so would like to retrain doing something as soon as possible so I don't lose my home and ideally something that gets me out of the office.

I don't enjoy working on a computer but would love to do a trade or job that gets me out the office/house and doing something else I suppose. Does anybody have any good suggestions for jobs that fit the bill? I was thinking of going into plumbing but have been warned against it...I'm 29 btw if that's any help living in Manchester?

A mate of mine spent decades working as a milkman, getting up at 4:00 every day for relatively little financial reward. Around five years ago, he successfully applied for a job as a tram driver with Metrolink and has never looked back (no pun intended). Not only does he feel like he's got his life back, he's well paid for it too.

 

[Kippaxpete]

I'm ancient, and i can't remember where the plughole was!

These days, I confuse the plug hole with the waste pipe!
; )

 

[Citizen of Legoland]

A mate of mine spent decades working as a milkman, getting up at 4:00 every day for relatively little financial reward. Around five years ago, he successfully applied for a job as a tram driver with Metrolink and has never looked back (no pun intended). Not only does he feel like he's got his life back, he's well paid for it too.

So that’s why the trams only go at 5 mph. The drivers all trained on milk floats.

 

[Kippaxpete]

So that’s why the trams only go at 5 mph. The drivers all trained on milk floats.

I believe there are vacancies for rear gunners on the milk floats in Gorton currently.

 

[Shirley]

Ernie, he drove the fastest milk float in the west….

 

[KS55]

A mate of mine spent decades working as a milkman, getting up at 4:00 every day for relatively little financial reward. Around five years ago, he successfully applied for a job as a tram driver with Metrolink and has never looked back (no pun intended). Not only does he feel like he's got his life back, he's well paid for it too.

My new milkman delivers at about 10pm. Presumably he doesn’t get up at 4am.

 

[VOOMER]

Apologies for the negativity but I'm currently working a dead-end office job on below average pay and about to be made redundant unfortunately but I have a mortgage to pay off and all the usual financial liabilities so would like to retrain doing something as soon as possible so I don't lose my home and ideally something that gets me out of the office.

I don't enjoy working on a computer but would love to do a trade or job that gets me out the office/house and doing something else I suppose. Does anybody have any good suggestions for jobs that fit the bill? I was thinking of going into plumbing but have been warned against it...I'm 29 btw if that's any help living in Manchester?

There is a big skill shortage in terms of the age gap between the average IFA and those just starting.

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