THLpatrick 555 Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 They have probably got your best intrests at heart and are nagging you to get a trade of some sort take it from a 50 some thing year old try and get a trade and dont end up doing some of the shitty jobs i have done in the past with the drudgery that comes with them at the end of the day the choice is yours but its a choice that could affect the rest of your life .I packed a bricklaying apprenticeship in at 18 to go down the pit a good move for me as i met some great lads and had some great time despite it being a dirty dangerouse job and at the time i thought it was a job for life. same got thrown out of sixth form, then dropped out an ICT Diploma, but now im doing public services and actually doing quite well in it, its a good course to just open up routes i think Fireman/police/army/raf/marines etc, but its also just a good qualification to have ( also i new the course did lots of trips and days out so i wouldnt always be stuck in the class so that also made me take it) Good luck with wat ever you choose and do Patrick as its tougher now than it were 35 years ago in the jobs market. thanks alot mate and yeah hopefully ill hae some idea soon enough Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THLpatrick 555 Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Paddy, at the same age as yourself I had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life other than work dogs and bed women! At that time I was making decent money and working great hours but faced being booted out of the house for my dodgy dealings. I was eventually told to work or get out, by my old man and I set off unwillingly to look for a job that would suit. Luckily I found sommat, not the best of pay or hours but I liked it, could work my dogs, chase women and went from there. It certainly calmed things at home! Fell into my second job too, as an 'extra' to my first and as things were now getting a bit 'tense' at home because both dead critters and birds were constantly being brought back, I took a huge gamble used my savings, borrowed a bit more and put a small deposit down on a terraced house. It really was a tip, with an outside kazie and one tap with running water but it was mine, i was free and loved it! Nothing else to do now but apply myself to my job and keep it. The first job was working on the Mersey Rescue boat, the second 'extra' a Lifeguard and now I'm a manager over three leisure sites, seems a million miles from the start but it's what I do. I still wonder where i'd be now if my dad hadn't given me that ultimatum. Yer, I could get all romantic about it and say I could have gone on to make millions but then again.... Right now i'm very happy with my lot and wouldn't swap it for the world. At your age pursue whatever you want out of life, live the dream but whatever that dream may be push on and always apply yourself, no matter how dead end things may seem at the time, because sommat could always lead off of it. There is a saying, 'youth is waisted on the young'! That, more often as not, is just the case, bear it in mind and don't let it be so...! Its my Inability to sit down and focus, the only time i do stupidly enough it when im with the dogs tbh, i like college and am trying hard but need to make the deadlines if im actually going to get anywhere, its 2 years so gives me time to think, atm im looking for any part time, your right paul tbh when i leave i need to follow what i want to do when that clicks and if not find a job with decent pay that keeps me comfortable, id also love to get a house on my own or flat when i could eventually afford but as you no got it easy here for getting the dogs out! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 If i was you paddy id look in to tree surgey mate. Im doing it over in sweden next year and at 29 its something i wish i started doing from college! Its an amazing and interesting job, never a day inside or same place and good money on top! Plus the world is crying out for british trained tree surgeons as our training is the best lol some of the lads i work with over there have been all round the world doing it and loved every min! Even if you dont want to travel and stay in england you will find work and offering keepers/farmers do work for free like storm damage, path clearing etc will go along way to getting permission. Id recommend it to anyone but if you like the outdoors then its even better! Look into and see what you think Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THLpatrick 555 Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 If i was you paddy id look in to tree surgey mate. Im doing it over in sweden next year and at 29 its something i wish i started doing from college! Its an amazing and interesting job, never a day inside or same place and good money on top! Plus the world is crying out for british trained tree surgeons as our training is the best lol some of the lads i work with over there have been all round the world doing it and loved every min! Even if you dont want to travel and stay in england you will find work and offering keepers/farmers do work for free like storm damage, path clearing etc will go along way to getting permission. Id recommend it to anyone but if you like the outdoors then its even better! Look into and see what you think thanks for the advice mate, ill have a look into that,Just get over my fear of height and ill be flying, haha messing im fine, al have a good look into it! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Lol yeah no fear of heights helps! They build you up slowly on your training tho mate and you soon learn to trust the equipment you use everyday! Its good crack tho and not always climbing and you can pick up other work like hedge cutting, hedge laying, straight felling trees, log splitting, mowing lawns etc theres a good college near liverpool, cant remember the name off the top of my head but ill find it out now for you mate. You should qualify for free training to Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THLpatrick 555 Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Thanks Alot! Sounds good! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
stewie 3,387 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 The college is called myerscough mate and its in preston. I know a few lads who trained there and they all rate it highly! Good luck if you do try it you wont regret it if you do! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OldNog 432 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 If you enjouyed labouring then carry on as you wil once day help out another tradesman and find something you really enjoy doing. Thats what i did after i packed in keepering (daft f*****g job!). I was only meant to work for a day taking tiless off a bathroom door but then gave a chippy a hand with some doors and im still doing it 2 years down the line for a small property development firm. Best thing is even though i prefer the chippying work, no week is the same if we are doing a whole refurb of a property....one week i could be outside fencing or turfing, next i could be hanging doors or skirtings....next week decorating or just knocking walls through. Very rewarding work when you see how pleased the customer is with the finished job. Im also working less hours and earning 4 times as much money as keepering. Keepering was what i wanted to do as a kid, i went to Sparsholt for 2 years from school, then things went sour at work and i wasnt getting paid enough to put up with it. I nmust have been the only keeper without a house and had tio drive 60 mile round trip each day of the week for work!!! f**k that. I ended up hating all things shooting related for about 6 months after, but now seeing as i dont do it for a job i love it even more. Dont get out as much as i would like because ive been flat out siince september but getting out weekends now with the terrier. Bliss 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
scottish carper ingram 40 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 i know the feeling mate, had my dad and grandad constantly nagging about what i wanted to do, i always knew i wanted to do, i grew up in or around the country and wanted to go into agriculture, but with both my dad n grandad both being electricians they wanted me to get an apprenticeship, so i just said i didnt know what i wanted to do and enroled at the barony college on an agriculture coarse and then onto an agricultural engineering starter coarse, they werent happy, but i was so wasnt fussed, finnished and graduated but with not being from a farming family i found it very hard to get my foot in the door, very tight farming community round my way, eventualy i got a part time job (averaging 70-90hours a week haha ) but soon he didnt need me so was let go, couldnt find another job so ended up as a sparkys mate for a few year which kept the family happy but now the electrical work has dried up im back at square one and considering all my options again, im only 22 so have time to build a career in anything i choose, anyway sorry for the story and good luck with what ever you choose patrick, ps there is an land based college in dumfries called the barony college, they do all sorts, tree surgery, agriculture, animal care, equine etc just search barony college in google n you should find it atb ingram 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
vduben 55 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 If i was you paddy id look in to tree surgey mate. Im doing it over in sweden next year and at 29 its something i wish i started doing from college! Its an amazing and interesting job, never a day inside or same place and good money on top! Plus the world is crying out for british trained tree surgeons as our training is the best lol some of the lads i work with over there have been all round the world doing it and loved every min! Even if you dont want to travel and stay in england you will find work and offering keepers/farmers do work for free like storm damage, path clearing etc will go along way to getting permission. Id recommend it to anyone but if you like the outdoors then its even better! Look into and see what you think ive been a climber for the past 9 years, i did 6 months in brisbane too, ive been employed, a subbie ive done my own work and personally ive reached my peak and with out having to do paper work in a office, it does keep you fit but not like people think, once you get good you start to climb alot more efficently which make climbing look easy to the average joe! i currently work for a large arb approved firm which for a young lad will be the best start in the game Quote Link to post Share on other sites
the_stig 6,614 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) i left school went into a trade painting and decorating after a few year i went into industrial painting --- pylons, lighting towers,concrete plants, power stations, just for the money... i set up my own company doin new housing and industrial painting -- made a fantastic living invested in property and good pensions semi retired and just worked during the summer a few year back .. its only the last 4 yr i`ve done a job i enjoy -- buying and selling antiques and collectables but to get whr i wanted to be today i had to stick with the painting if you can get a job you enjoy and make good money all well and good -- but are these jobs few and far between these days ? .. Edited January 4, 2012 by the_stig Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lapin2008 1,587 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Paddy, at the same age as yourself I had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life other than work dogs and bed women! At that time I was making decent money and working great hours but faced being booted out of the house for my dodgy dealings. I was eventually told to work or get out, by my old man and I set off unwillingly to look for a job that would suit. Luckily I found sommat, not the best of pay or hours but I liked it, could work my dogs, chase women and went from there. It certainly calmed things at home! Fell into my second job too, as an 'extra' to my first and as things were now getting a bit 'tense' at home because both dead critters and birds were constantly being brought back, I took a huge gamble used my savings, borrowed a bit more and put a small deposit down on a terraced house. It really was a tip, with an outside kazie and one tap with running water but it was mine, i was free and loved it! Nothing else to do now but apply myself to my job and keep it. The first job was working on the Mersey Rescue boat, the second 'extra' a Lifeguard and now I'm a manager over three leisure sites, seems a million miles from the start but it's what I do. I still wonder where i'd be now if my dad hadn't given me that ultimatum. Yer, I could get all romantic about it and say I could have gone on to make millions but then again.... Right now i'm very happy with my lot and wouldn't swap it for the world. At your age pursue whatever you want out of life, live the dream but whatever that dream may be push on and always apply yourself, no matter how dead end things may seem at the time, because sommat could always lead off of it. There is a saying, 'youth is waisted on the young'! That, more often as not, is just the case, bear it in mind and don't let it be so...! Bang on advice that, it almost doesnt matter what you do as long as you go for it while your doing it 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 31,602 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 (edited) Every other boring fecker, who tells you you should know what you want to do by now do my head in, but im just wondering what people do off here and if there happy with there job! I honestly have no clue what i want to be at all. Obviously people ask out of curiosity and thats fine but i mean people who nag and seem to look down because you dont know, i just know i dont want a desk job, but if it paid the bills id have to do it. If you got kids or a family to support then you just gotta crack on and do whatever....................but if its just you then bollocks to all the serious stuff live your life,try things out and see what fits................worse thing i can possibly imagine is being tied down to some 9 to 5 shit from 16 - 60 !.....maybe focus on what you dont want to do rather than what you do want to do,avoid the shit things and you,ll fall into something you like eventually......at least its not doom and gloom while your finding out though. Edited January 4, 2012 by gnasher16 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
littlefish 596 Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Paddy, at the same age as yourself I had no idea of what I wanted to do with my life other than work dogs and bed women! At that time I was making decent money and working great hours but faced being booted out of the house for my dodgy dealings. I was eventually told to work or get out, by my old man and I set off unwillingly to look for a job that would suit. Luckily I found sommat, not the best of pay or hours but I liked it, could work my dogs, chase women and went from there. It certainly calmed things at home! Fell into my second job too, as an 'extra' to my first and as things were now getting a bit 'tense' at home because both dead critters and birds were constantly being brought back, I took a huge gamble used my savings, borrowed a bit more and put a small deposit down on a terraced house. It really was a tip, with an outside kazie and one tap with running water but it was mine, i was free and loved it! Nothing else to do now but apply myself to my job and keep it. The first job was working on the Mersey Rescue boat, the second 'extra' a Lifeguard and now I'm a manager over three leisure sites, seems a million miles from the start but it's what I do. I still wonder where i'd be now if my dad hadn't given me that ultimatum. Yer, I could get all romantic about it and say I could have gone on to make millions but then again.... Right now i'm very happy with my lot and wouldn't swap it for the world. At your age pursue whatever you want out of life, live the dream but whatever that dream may be push on and always apply yourself, no matter how dead end things may seem at the time, because sommat could always lead off of it. There is a saying, 'youth is waisted on the young'! That, more often as not, is just the case, bear it in mind and don't let it be so...! Its my Inability to sit down and focus, the only time i do stupidly enough it when im with the dogs tbh, i like college and am trying hard but need to make the deadlines if im actually going to get anywhere, its 2 years so gives me time to think, atm im looking for any part time, your right paul tbh when i leave i need to follow what i want to do when that clicks and if not find a job with decent pay that keeps me comfortable, id also love to get a house on my own or flat when i could eventually afford but as you no got it easy here for getting the dogs out! That is very good advice......applying yourself and being reliable, no matter how tough or mundane the job is, should get you good references, which mean a lot in this day and age where jobs are so hard to come by. If someone is able to recommend you, hand on heart, as a good worker, it means a lot. Good luck whatever you decide to do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THLpatrick 555 Posted January 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 i know the feeling mate, had my dad and grandad constantly nagging about what i wanted to do, i always knew i wanted to do, i grew up in or around the country and wanted to go into agriculture, but with both my dad n grandad both being electricians they wanted me to get an apprenticeship, so i just said i didnt know what i wanted to do and enroled at the barony college on an agriculture coarse and then onto an agricultural engineering starter coarse, they werent happy, but i was so wasnt fussed, finnished and graduated but with not being from a farming family i found it very hard to get my foot in the door, very tight farming community round my way, eventualy i got a part time job (averaging 70-90hours a week haha ) but soon he didnt need me so was let go, couldnt find another job so ended up as a sparkys mate for a few year which kept the family happy but now the electrical work has dried up im back at square one and considering all my options again, im only 22 so have time to build a career in anything i choose, anyway sorry for the story and good luck with what ever you choose patrick, ps there is an land based college in dumfries called the barony college, they do all sorts, tree surgery, agriculture, animal care, equine etc just search barony college in google n you should find it atb ingram thats the problem, if i new id do it no matter what, your only told the minimum jobs not what there is out there, guess you really have to look Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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