I'm thinking of re-training

[Adam]

But into what? I dunno.

There is no jobs, just none or they're all shit and I'll just wonder into one admin monkey job to the next for the rest of my life until I die. Cus I don't want to do sales or customer service any more.

Any ideas what is fun to do? Thinking Horticulture or Healthcare, maybe engineering. Not sure about IT although it is my background, I dunno if just to keep that as a hobby as I've tried before to get paid for what I like to do for kicks and it didn't turn out great. Plus I'm getting less and less interested in it but that is partly because I haven't kept up.

Has anyone else ever totally retrained? Regret it? Best thing ever? How did you live with little money coming in?

[trailerprincess]

I can't speak from personal experience but the boy I have been seeing for a while now quit a 'good' job working from an international company to retrain as a landscaper and tree surgeon. I didn't know him then but he says it was the best thing that he ever did. I guess it's less money and 'harder' work (i.e. more manual) but he loves it, the people he meets, working outside and just the general variety. He still has a good lifestyle so I guess any potential loss of earnings has just made him reprioritise what he spent his money on.

If you can earn enough to sustain a life you really want ( perhaps as supposed to what 'society' thinks you need) and it would make you happy, then go for it.

[Adam]

I'm unemployed atm. If I retrained I'd be on even less money than what the government gives me for being unemployable. It'll just be the couple of years of being even more frugal than I already am.

A rich girlfriend would solve a lot of my problems.

[NicRN77]

Healthcare is a sure bet. I'm a nurse...and we are always very high in demand.

[Bob]

Healthcare is a sure bet. I'm a nurse...and we are always very high in demand.

is that different at all in england, with national health care and all that? i guess people still get sick as much as they do when you have to pay for insurance so i suppose there wouldn't be much difference. if anything there'd be more demand, since more people would actually go to hospitals when they get sick

[Helvete]

Join the Army.

[Adam]

is that different at all in england, with national health care and all that? i guess people still get sick as much as they do when you have to pay for insurance so i suppose there wouldn't be much difference. if anything there'd be more demand, since more people would actually go to hospitals when they get sick

I started writing something but I just pretty much just ragged on the american system. I think it's probably more so, my experience is that NHS produce some of the best health care workers in the world, applied for a couple of vocational courses in the past, but they are hard to get on to.

My main issue with it all is other peoples bodily fluids.

Join the Army.

Dad said 'son you're fucking high'...

[Bob]

I started writing something but I just pretty much just ragged on the american system.

you??? i don't believe it

[Freebasser]

Stripping Dentist

[Helvete]

Just get a bloody job and stop taking my taxes!

[Adam]

you??? i don't believe it

I know !! :eek: I'm no friend of liberty obviously.

[Adam]

Just get a bloody job and stop taking my taxes!

I am grateful for you money dude. But I haven't actually been paid any benefit yet - not sure why as it's been nearly a month now and they said I'd get something after two weeks. So don't worry.

[MC Moot]

oh yes,horticulture...I've alway's had a fancy for it...particularily with the goal of becoming an arborist...all trees,all the time...saving historic growth or re-greening in municipal settings etc,etc...(y)

[Teh]

Engineering is awesome.

I'm getting paid a ridiculous salary - even for London - and up to my neck in bitches.

I am, of course, lying, although my salary is good. But if you want a job that genuinely changes on a day to day basis and is always challenging, then you can't go wrong with engineering.

[MC Moot]

Engineering is awesome.

Plus a free secret decoder ring with every degree!

[Teh]

Plus a free secret decoder ring with every degree!

Worth more than most degrees.

By the way, here's the last thing I worked on. (http://www.atkinsglobal.com/twenty-twelve)

[Adam]

Yeah, maybe I should become an olympic athlete. Hmmms.

[jackrock]

Elephants.

[paul jones]

Write a complete pile of shit about some young wizard and make millions like J.K. Rowling

[venusvenus123]

Here you go Adam, tips from the top: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9455886.stm

[Adam]

Here you go Adam, tips from the top: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/9455886.stm

Thanks, I do like the bury head sand idea the best.